Professional Development Plan

Name _Jeanette Lohren________Date_______11/29/2014__________________

Goals:
1. Make my lesson plans more Inquiry Based.
2. Engage in positive classroom discipline with proximity control.
3. Incorporate more interactive, small learning groups in my lessons.

Objectives:
What do I want
to be able to do
better? These
must be
measurable.

Reflection:
Mentor/supervisor
insight and
discussions about
topic. Has
progress been
made? If so, how
do you know?
Three out of
Final Internship
five lessons a
allowed for more
week will be
freedom and not
inquiry based in as tight a schedule
my final
to do inquiry
internship. One based lessons. I
additional day
found lessons,
will be a
with the help of
biology lab.
my mentor
Students are
teacher, and my
engaged with
internship
inquiry lessons professor and
and therefore
taught them in
learn better,
class.
keep alert, and
My mentor
their
teacher and I
assessments are discussed various
better.
lesson plans,
including labs.
She also, is in
favor of hands on

Success criteria:
How will I
recognize
success? How
will I review and
measure my
improvement?

Actions:
What Methods
will I use to
achieve my
learning
objectives?

Implementation
future reflection:
How will I
practice and
apply what I
learn?

I will recognize
success by the
amount of
inquiry lessons I
teach and student
engagement.
I noticed a direct
correlation
between student
engagement and
student
assessment
results.
The 7th period
class, for
example, had an
overall average
of 52% when I
took the class
over. The overall
average without

I will search
CPALMS for
lessons which
are inquiry
based and
based on the
standards. I
will use my
textbooks, and
my
imagination,
and the
resources of
other more
seasoned
teachers.

I will teach three

out of five lessons
a week as inquiry.
I will set up labs
for the students
once a week so
they can have
even more hands
on learning.
I would like to
organize the
lessons I have
accrued, and
discard the boring
ones, and keep the
ones that were
successful. Some
I made up, some I
found on
CPALMS or
another internet

To maintain
better order in
my classroom.
I want to use
the Dr. Fred
Jones theory of
positive
classroom
instruction and
discipline and
I will
implement his
theory, as the
need arises, 9
out of 10 times.

inquiry based
lessons. My FSW
instructor also
gave me a lab the
students loved.
The labs the
students did kept
them engaged and
on track learning.
Each lab was
designed to teach
an objective
which was based
on a standard for
the EOC.
I read more of Dr.
Fred Jones book
and implemented
many of his
strategies. By
moving the desks
into an
arrangement that I
can reach students
quickly, greeting
them at the door,
assigning seats,
and having
bellringers all
went a long way
with some illbehaved students.

adding in the last

exam in was
62% with 5
students with A
averages. An
increase of a full
10 points.
I will also
measure my
success by
student
participation and
behavior during
lesson time.
I will recognize
improvement
when I can recall
the Jones method
of discipline
when the need
arises 9 out of 10
times. In theory,
as the students
get used to the
method, it
should be needed
less and less. My
mentor teacher
commented that
I did better than
she usually does,
as she had
maybe 20
minutes
instruction time
in with the 5th
period class. I
usually get the
full 45, with rare
exceptions.
My FSW
professor came
to observe them,
and still thought
this class was ill-

source, some
from my mentor
teacher, and some
from my FSW
professor. This
way I can be more
organized with
great inquiry
based lessons.

The method I
will use is to
be more
familiar with
the book and
watch the
DVD. A plan
for classroom
management
must be in
place as well
as engaging
lessons, which
also help
behavior.
Students who
are engaged in
their lessons,
are rarely
discipline
problems. This
is where the
inquiry based
lessons and
labs come in.
Assigned
seating will be
enforced.

In studying the
book, I hope to
have the answers
available to me to
use when needed.
To know what to
do when a
situation arises.
To start the class
off with positive
classroom
discipline, at the
beginning of the
year, so that, by
Dr. Jones theory,
less and less
discipline is
needed.

behaved, and
they are. I
needed to move
their seats again,
and enforce
assigned seating.
Proximity
control solved
most problems,
so I moved their
seats to a better
formation, and I
found it helped .
In three out of
Progress was
I will recognize
five of my
made, because I
success when I
lesson plans I
set up the students am using small
will incorporate in four groups,
groups during
the use of small which they often
three out of five
groups.
worked in. The
lessons.
groups worked
Small groups
very well, and the I also knew
work well for
students
success when my
social and
progressed well
low ELL
cognitive
together. The
student, with the
reasons.
honors classes
help of
Students learn
tended to get the
classmates who
from each other most done.
interpreted for
and the
Keeping poor
her, produced
interaction
performers on
exceptional
helps not only
track can be
work.
typical
somewhat
students, but is challenging with
very good for
this method, and
learning
often seats must
disabled (LD)
be moved to find
and English
a nice balance of
Language
students in a
Learner (ELL)
general class. My
students.
mentor teacher
noticed this as
well, and helped
me switch some
students around.
My FSW
professor noticed
an ill-behaved

The method I
will use to
accomplish
this is to sit
students in
alphabetical
order so that
students are
not grouped
with their
buddies, as
they would do
if allowed to.
Students
working
together pool
resources and
can often work
out formative
assessments
and labs that
they could not
do if they had
to work alone.
The additional
point of this is
for the ELL,
ESE, and
unsocialized
students to do
well. If
students who
are not popular

I will implement
small groups in
three out of five
of my Inquiry
Based lessons.
Groups can work
well with inquiry
based lessons and
lab work.
Students love to
work together,
even if there are
enough
computers, or
microscopes. A
sense of
community
builds, as well as
pride in their
work.
Competition
encourages study
when the groups
compete in a
lively jeopardy
style review.

group and
suggested I break
them up. All
excellent advice.
This is also an
excellent way for
English Language
Learners (ELL),
Exceptional
Student Education
(ESE), and
students who are
not socialized
well to
participate.

to start with,
do not get a
group, it will
make them feel
worse. Not
much socially
worse than
being picked
last in gym or
class.