GAA Update and Advice

Yes, yes I have not been blogging lately and this is due to more that just school, I'm sure everyone understands. So I have to admit that I have been ignoring my GAA obligations lately which is not horrible for an experienced high performer but could be detrimental to someone who struggles with the assessment process. My planning sheets are complete and detailed but the implementation process has not started strong. I unfortunately am justifying this with the fact that I do not want to present a huge gap between 1st and 2nd collection periods, (which technically makes sense). I also wanted to present a few words of advice to my GAA readers:
1.Always take into mind your student's prerequisite skills
2. Do not reinvent the wheel, use coworkers, pre-adapted lessons and GOOGLE!!! Google can be your best friend!
3. Do not think tooooooo hard! The GAA is based on the growth shown between collection period 1 and 2, only teach what you know and can... education is always a learning process but the GAA SHOULD (which we all know it is not, lol) be all about the student. Teach to their capabilities.

I know that most of my readers are low-incidence teachers and do not agree with the GAA's (mission) but the bottom line is we have to do this, and unless we can change NCLB's gidelines, we have to deal with this assessment process and use it to our advantage in the sense of strengthing our modification abilities.