Professional Development Plan
Complete the chart below to plan your professional development over the next 2-3 years. Be sure your goals are specific and
measureable.
Goal #1: Encouraging student
lead learning in the classroom.
Rationale: Why did I am a person who likes to be in
you choose this goal? constant control and I would like to
How do you expect it try to get away from this. I would
to improve the like to encourage students to lead
lessons amongst themselves and take
outcomes of your
control of their learning. By allowing
future students? student lead instruction can provide a
way for students to learn on a deeper
level and be more engaged in the
classroom. By allowing them to take
the lead it gives them the chance be
held accountable for their learning.
End Date: By when This is something I will work on each
do you expect to year. It will be something that I have
accomplish this goal? to experiment with in order to find the
most efficient way for it to work. I do
not plan on ending this goal, but
taking it each year and expanding on
it.
Action Timeline: August 2019: come up with prompts
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Goal #2: Integrating more
technology use for students.
Technology can open so many doors
for students. There are endless
possibilities for virtual field trips,
experiments, educational activities,
etc. It is my goal to find as many
ways to incorporate technology into
my future classroom as possible. By
doing this students will gain so much
knowledge and have unforgettable
experiences in the classroom that help
them retain the information that is
being discussed.
This is something that I plan to have
in play by my second year. However,
with new things coming out in the
world of technology every day I
know that I will be expanding on it
yearly or more frequently than that.
August 2019: find different apps and
Goal #3: Finding positive things to
reflect on and building on them.
Keeping a list of the positive things
that happen daily, weekly, or monthly
and then sitting down to reflect on
them can improve the environment of
the classroom. Many times we only
remember the bad things that happen
so noting the good and then looking
back on it might help us to see that
good things also happen. When we as
educators are positive people it makes
our students have a positive outlook,
as well. A positive classroom is a
successful classroom in my opinion.
By reflecting on the positive I hope I
can show my students to do the same
thing in their futures.
This is something I plan to start as
soon as I have my own classroom.
There can never be too much
positivity in the classroom. I do not
plan to end this goal because it is
something that needs to be carried on
always.
August 2019: begin the process of
What steps will you to help students lead discussions and websites for students to use in their noting positive things that go on in the
take to complete this activities in the classroom. daily routines. classroom.
goal, and by when December 2019: start putting these December 2019: begin integrating August 2019: determine the best way
will you take them? prompts into use during daily these apps and websites into the daily to share those positive things.
Example: discussions and lessons. routines of students. September 2019: begin the process of
1/31/18: Join AACTE August 2020: have the kinks worked August 2020: continue looking for sharing what I have compiled.
out and start using these techniques at new apps and websites for students to
the beginning of the year. use and integrate them into the
classroom.
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available to assist you *Technology Department in the
in accomplishing your district
goal? *Professional Development meetings
on technology

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