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Professional Development Plan Template
PART I: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOAL
Consider the "Teaching Practice Self-Inventory" from Task 1 and identify a particular aspect of planning, instruction, or
assessment you want to improve by doing the following:
Professional Growth
A1. Selected Aspect for Through professional development, I hope to improve my planning by incorporating more
Improvement manipulatives, games, and project-based learning (PBL) into my math lessons. In other
words, I would like my lessons to be more hands-on.
Identify an aspect within
planning, instruction, or
assessment that you want to
improve through professional
development.
A2. Justification for I teach three math classes: one mainstream 4th-grade class, one mainstream 5th-grade
Improvement class, and one "academy" 5th-grade class. For this assignment, I will focus primarily on
my
Justify why you want to "academy" 5th-grade class, which is composed of only 9 students, all of whom are
improve the aspect of your currently below grade level. They are exempt from state testing, with the academy
practice identified in part A1. program being designed to take as much time as the educator determines is needed to
accomplish mastery of foundational skills and concepts. In other words, we are not
expected to hit every state standard or follow packed pacing guides; instead, we are
meant to meet these diverse learners where they are at (of course, without compromising
rigor). I set the goal in A1 because, upon reflection, I realized I am having difficulty
breaking away from the routine I have become accustomed to with my mainstream
classes: whole-group student workbook gradual release model, break for independent
practice and small-group intervention, and repeat the following day. I am being given
ultimate flexibility with my academy class, and I am doing them a disservice by
continuing with mainstream practices when the program’s core principle is providing an
alternative education for these alternative learners. Therefore, I would like to increase the
use of manipulatives, games, and PBL in this class to make lessons more hands-on,
engaging, and better tailored to my students' unique needs. The more engaged students
are, the better they learn. Moreover, the ability to see and manipulate an object or game
related to the content would improve comprehension and retention. While my focus will
be on this academy class, I also recognize that I am free to use any strategies I learn
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throughout this process to improve my instruction in my mainstream classes.
A3. Professional My overarching goal is to incorporate more manipulatives, games, and PBL into my math
Development Goal lessons for my Academy 5th-grade class. I plan to do this by consulting with both our Title
1 specialist and my peer, who is a veteran math teacher. I also intend to conduct
Develop an overarching independent research to gather materials and ideas and create a detailed list of the
professional development goal concepts I plan to cover throughout the school year, along with various activities I can
by explaining specifically how choose from to accompany each one. This will provide me with the flexibility to choose
you want to improve the area which activities best fit any given lesson at any point in the school year, based on
of your practice identified in perceived student engagement and time constraints. This will improve my lessons by
part A1. making them more engaging and hands-on, better meeting the needs of the learners in
this alternative classroom setting.
A4. Projected Goal My goal is to accomplish this goal by the end of the first quarter, which for us lands on
Completion Date October 14th. This gives me a full month to gather a collection of materials and ideas that
can be used to enrich my lessons for the remainder of the school year.
Identify a projected goal
completion date or time
frame.
PART II: PLANNING AND RESOURCES
Consider the support resources you will use to achieve the professional development goal in part A3 and identify them by doing
the following:
Planning and Resources
B1. Job-Embedded I will receive mentoring from two sources: (1) our Title-1 specialist and (2) my teammate,
Professional Learning who recently began teaching science but is a veteran math teacher. The former will be able
Resource to provide me with many resources, as she is in charge of housing our collection of math
games and other curriculum materials. The latter will share ideas with me that she has used
Identify one type of over her ten years of experience teaching upper-elementary math.
professional learning
resource provided by your
school or district (i.e.,
jobembedded resources,
such as observations,
mentoring, school
workshops, etc.) you will
D629: GFN2 Task 2
Professional Development Plan Template
PART I: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOAL
Consider the "Teaching Practice Self-Inventory" from Task 1 and identify a particular aspect of planning, instruction, or
assessment you want to improve by doing the following:
Professional Growth
A1. Selected Aspect for Through professional development, I hope to improve my planning by incorporating more
Improvement manipulatives, games, and project-based learning (PBL) into my math lessons. In other
words, I would like my lessons to be more hands-on.
Identify an aspect within
planning, instruction, or
assessment that you want to
improve through professional
development.
A2. Justification for I teach three math classes: one mainstream 4th-grade class, one mainstream 5th-grade
Improvement class, and one "academy" 5th-grade class. For this assignment, I will focus primarily on
my
Justify why you want to "academy" 5th-grade class, which is composed of only 9 students, all of whom are
improve the aspect of your currently below grade level. They are exempt from state testing, with the academy
practice identified in part A1. program being designed to take as much time as the educator determines is needed to
accomplish mastery of foundational skills and concepts. In other words, we are not
expected to hit every state standard or follow packed pacing guides; instead, we are
meant to meet these diverse learners where they are at (of course, without compromising
rigor). I set the goal in A1 because, upon reflection, I realized I am having difficulty
breaking away from the routine I have become accustomed to with my mainstream
classes: whole-group student workbook gradual release model, break for independent
practice and small-group intervention, and repeat the following day. I am being given
ultimate flexibility with my academy class, and I am doing them a disservice by
continuing with mainstream practices when the program’s core principle is providing an
alternative education for these alternative learners. Therefore, I would like to increase the
use of manipulatives, games, and PBL in this class to make lessons more hands-on,
engaging, and better tailored to my students' unique needs. The more engaged students
are, the better they learn. Moreover, the ability to see and manipulate an object or game
related to the content would improve comprehension and retention. While my focus will
be on this academy class, I also recognize that I am free to use any strategies I learn
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D629: GFN2 Task 2
throughout this process to improve my instruction in my mainstream classes.
A3. Professional My overarching goal is to incorporate more manipulatives, games, and PBL into my math
Development Goal lessons for my Academy 5th-grade class. I plan to do this by consulting with both our Title
1 specialist and my peer, who is a veteran math teacher. I also intend to conduct
Develop an overarching independent research to gather materials and ideas and create a detailed list of the
professional development goal concepts I plan to cover throughout the school year, along with various activities I can
by explaining specifically how choose from to accompany each one. This will provide me with the flexibility to choose
you want to improve the area which activities best fit any given lesson at any point in the school year, based on
of your practice identified in perceived student engagement and time constraints. This will improve my lessons by
part A1. making them more engaging and hands-on, better meeting the needs of the learners in
this alternative classroom setting.
A4. Projected Goal My goal is to accomplish this goal by the end of the first quarter, which for us lands on
Completion Date October 14th. This gives me a full month to gather a collection of materials and ideas that
can be used to enrich my lessons for the remainder of the school year.
Identify a projected goal
completion date or time
frame.
PART II: PLANNING AND RESOURCES
Consider the support resources you will use to achieve the professional development goal in part A3 and identify them by doing
the following:
Planning and Resources
B1. Job-Embedded I will receive mentoring from two sources: (1) our Title-1 specialist and (2) my teammate,
Professional Learning who recently began teaching science but is a veteran math teacher. The former will be able
Resource to provide me with many resources, as she is in charge of housing our collection of math
games and other curriculum materials. The latter will share ideas with me that she has used
Identify one type of over her ten years of experience teaching upper-elementary math.
professional learning
resource provided by your
school or district (i.e.,
jobembedded resources,
such as observations,
mentoring, school
workshops, etc.) you will
