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Developing a Professional Growth Plan
Karla Bock
MSCIN Program, Western Governors University
GFN1 Task 2: Developing a Professional Growth Plan
Chasity Dean-Anthony
July 19, 2025
, 2
A. Explain how implementing a professional growth plan can help you improve your
instructional practice by promoting all students' academic and nonacademic success.
Implementing a professional growth plan can help me improve my instructional practice by
promoting all students' academic and non-academic success by learning how to target and focus
on areas I can improve on and where my strengths are. Having targeted goals will allow me to
focus on what I need to do to improve and also help me improve in the areas where I need to
improve. Having a professional growth plan will allow me as an educator to grow and make my
classroom a better environment. My class can grow in numerous ways, such as the classroom
community, our social skills, collaboration, social-emotional learning, student engagement, etc.
These are all different things that can happen when I implement a professional growth plan to
help improve my instructional practice and promote all students' academic and nonacademic
success.
B. Identify one nonacademic need that your students have.
Note: You are encouraged to use a non-academic need identified in Task 1
One non-academic skill my students have is communication skills. My class and I constantly
work on communication skills daily. I incorporate talking activities, such as Socratic seminars,
think-pair-share, and partner-share. Building communication skills is essential and will help them
succeed in my classroom and all aspects of life. My students have this non-academic skill
because it’s something I believe is necessary, which is why we practice our communication skills
daily.
C. Develop a professional growth plan to address the nonacademic need in Part B that will help
Developing a Professional Growth Plan
Karla Bock
MSCIN Program, Western Governors University
GFN1 Task 2: Developing a Professional Growth Plan
Chasity Dean-Anthony
July 19, 2025
, 2
A. Explain how implementing a professional growth plan can help you improve your
instructional practice by promoting all students' academic and nonacademic success.
Implementing a professional growth plan can help me improve my instructional practice by
promoting all students' academic and non-academic success by learning how to target and focus
on areas I can improve on and where my strengths are. Having targeted goals will allow me to
focus on what I need to do to improve and also help me improve in the areas where I need to
improve. Having a professional growth plan will allow me as an educator to grow and make my
classroom a better environment. My class can grow in numerous ways, such as the classroom
community, our social skills, collaboration, social-emotional learning, student engagement, etc.
These are all different things that can happen when I implement a professional growth plan to
help improve my instructional practice and promote all students' academic and nonacademic
success.
B. Identify one nonacademic need that your students have.
Note: You are encouraged to use a non-academic need identified in Task 1
One non-academic skill my students have is communication skills. My class and I constantly
work on communication skills daily. I incorporate talking activities, such as Socratic seminars,
think-pair-share, and partner-share. Building communication skills is essential and will help them
succeed in my classroom and all aspects of life. My students have this non-academic skill
because it’s something I believe is necessary, which is why we practice our communication skills
daily.
C. Develop a professional growth plan to address the nonacademic need in Part B that will help
