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Julie Lansing

Progress Report on PDQP

National University

April 25, 2019

Abstract

In this paper, I will be discussing my progress in completing my Professional Development

Quest Portfolio, PDQP. I will be discussing my goal achievements, frustrations, questions,

concerns, and my next steps in my development of my PDQP. I have been working on my PDQP

for the past two weeks and I am constantly looking for artifacts to add to it.
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Progress Report on PDQP

While taking my Capstone for my Masters in Education, I have been working to

complete my Professional Development Quest Portfolio or PDQP. This process has been one that

has been very hard, but also very rewarding. I will be discussing the many goals that the PDQP

has helped me realize as well as some of the struggles that have come with creating a website

and then finally the next steps I will take as I continue to work on my PDQP.

In this first section, I will be discussing my goal achievements that have come from

creating my PDQP. Through the creation of the website, I have been able to see all the different

ways that I am teaching my students and how I have accomplished all of the California Teaching

Performance Expectations without realizing it. Specifically, in Domain C, I am working on

student engagement, and according to the Commission on Teaching Credentialing, teachers need

to make sure, “They ensure the active and equitable participation of all students.” (2013). My

class has been reviewing for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), and with

the reviewing we have been working a lot on Domain C, Engaging and Supporting Students in

Learning. My goal achievements for creating the PDQP has been to gather all the important

information about my teaching in one place, so I am able to share it with any number of people.

This goal of creating one place to house all the information has been an eye-opening experience

with having to go back through different experiences in the classroom and find out where they

belong, and many times they can be put into many different domains. I look forward to

completing my goal of having my main accomplishments in one place.

This next section will be discussing frustrations that have come along with building a

website and the creation of a PDQP. For myself, it has been time consuming to go back through

the many different articles, pictures, and assignments to see which one I want to showcase on the
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PDQP. Another frustration is learning how to create a website, as someone who has not created a

website prior to this class, it was a huge learning curve for me. I had to figure out how to link

different pages to another page, add pictures and documents. I am working through any

frustrations in creating the PDQP by googling information or checking to see how classmates

have adding and what they have included in their PDQP. While some parts of this are frustrating,

for the most part this has been a very educational time for me. I hope to be able to create a

website for my classroom where I can share information and pictures with my students and their

families.

Then in this section, I will be discussing any questions that I have or have had throughout

this process of working on my PDQP. When starting this class, I was very concerned with all the

information that I needed to include in this website considering I had never created one before. I

questioned what was expected of the PDQP, were we supposed to already know how to create a

website? Were we supposed to have all this information already with us ready to upload?

Throughout the course, I was able to get my questions answered either by classmates or during

our Blackboard Collaborate with Dr. Weintraub, and I felt more confidant in what I needed to do

in my PDQP.

Now I will be discussing concerns that I may have. I can’t say that I have too many

concerns as I feel that our latest Blackboard Collaborate meeting was very informative where we

were able to look at our peers PDQPs and have them explain their thoughts and experiences that

they have had in the classroom. After this, I feel that many of my concerns were answered. Some

that I had prior to the discussion were: how do I create a website, how am I going to be to

accomplish all of this while working, taking care of my children and going to all their activities,

and finding time to prep for my class. I am finding that I am able to work for about an hour each
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night and get a few things accomplished and that by Saturday I am usually ready to turn in my

PDQP progress.

In this last section I will be discussing the next steps for myself in developing my PDQP.

I will continue to work to complete each section of the domains and then continue to add or

adjust information as the years go on. I plan on this PDQP to be the starting point and I would

like to update it at least once a year to showcase new information and techniques that I have

learned from each year as a teacher. According to Costantino and De Lorenzo, “Developing your

portfolio is a time-consuming and rigorous process, you will be eager to present your work to

others. However, it is in your best interest to first invest some time in evaluating your own

work.” (2009, p. 66). I will continue to see what I can improve upon in my PDQP, so I am able

to put forth my best work in showing who I am as an educator.

References

Commission on Teacher Credentialing. (2013, March). California teaching performance

expectations. Retrieved from [Link]

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Costantino , P. M., & De Lorenzo, M. N. (2009). Developing a professional teaching portfolio:

A guide for success (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River: Pearson.