Professional Development Plan

Here are two of my goals for my professional development plan. The one for standard 4 may seem a little silly but I will admit that it applies to me. Any suggestions that you could give would be great! Thanks!


Standard 4
Current Abilities: I have a smartphone that contains a Iot of information that is important for my social, personal, and work life. Sometimes I tend to rely on my cell phone too much.
Needs: I need to demonstrate proper use of checking my cell phone for emails, calls, and texts in front of my students. Hopefully this will impact them for their own cell phone use.
Goal: I will model proper etiquette with use of my cell phone.
Measure: I will assign a time for me to check my cell phone during the teaching day. I will also keep my cell phone kept out of sight so I will not be tempted to check it.
Short-term goal: I will not use my cell phone in front of the students to check or respond to emails and/or texts.
Long- term goal: I will not feel the need to check my cell phone during classroom time.
Self-Assessment: I will evaluate at the end of the week my cell phone usage in the classroom.



Standard 5
Current Abilities: I am aware of some resources and materials to inform myself about current technology.
Needs: Since technology is always changing, it is important to continue learning and sharing about new technologies.
Goal: I will learn a technology well enough to teach other fellow teachers about it.
Measure: I will ask myself and other teachers what they would like to know more about.
Short-term goal: I will find a new technology to learn about and find opportunities to use or implement it.
Long- term goal: When I learn the new technology I will teach it to a fellow colleague.
Self-Assessment: After teaching a fellow colleague I will evaluate the effectiveness of it. Questions to consider are: Did or can they use it in the classroom? How well did it work? I will also keep of log of who and what I taught to someone else. Handouts and information about the technology will also be created to distribute and remind myself of the information I have learned.

What is the hardest thing you face in your own professional development?

What is something that you think you need to learn to be a better educator, but you just cannot see how you might learn it.

The first thing that comes to mind is finding the time for me to engage in professional development. But I need to change my mindset from "finding" the time to "making" the time. It is so easy to get caught up in the hussle and bussle of teaching. There is so much to do and never enough time. This project for class has really made me think about how I want to improve as an educator, whether it pertains to technology or not. I am finding myself thinking of short and long term goals for myself as I drive down the highway. I have always known that I need to continue my professional development but it is easy to put that priority below others. I think that professional development needs to stay at the top. Or at least be assessed more often than I do in the first place. I am looking forward to writing my professional develoment plan to keep myself acccountable down the road. I think that will definitely mold me into a better teacher!

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