Sydney Wenger
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: Goal #2: Goal #3:
Continue to modify existing teaching Improve the way I differentiate Build mindfulness practices in the
strategies as well as adapt new ones. instruction by meeting needs of classroom.
all students.
Rationale: I feel that as teachers, we will be lifelong This is something that I feel is very This is something that we do in the classroom
Why did you learners. I feel that I am always going to important and very difficult at the in my students teaching placement. We do
choose this be getting new ideas from others and want same time. No one single student breathing exercises, picturing things in one’s
goal? How do to adapt my own teaching style and will be the same as ones I have had mind, and yoga moves as well. This often
you expect it methods. I expect this to really improve in the past. I need to look at each helps bring a child back to their center and be
my students because I will be using the student on their own and work on able to once again focus in the classroom. This
to improve the
mist up to date and well-known strategies meeting their needs that will be will improve my future students’ outcomes by
outcomes of around. different from everyone else in the helping them remain calm in the classroom
your future classroom. When all my students’ and remain ready to work.
students? needs are met and differentiated
appropriately, learning can then
occur more peacefully.
End Date: By I feel that I will have a great teaching I expect to be able to achieve this I expect to be able to achieve this by the end
when do you strategy down by year 5 in the field, but after some time. I feel that students of my 5th year of teaching. I feel that I need
expect to that I will be continuing to adapt and will never be quite the same and I lots of practice adapting to the classroom as
accomplish change it years and years from this date. I will be meeting new needs of well as teaching. I give myself a 1-year goal.
this goal? give myself a 3-year goal. students year after year. I give
myself a 2-year goal.
Action Years of teaching will help me achieve I know that the school I will be There are lots of books to read on mindfulness
Timeline: this. I just simply need lots of experience working for will give out activities. I plan on doing research to figure
What steps in the classroom with different methods of professional development days. I out some more ideas that I am not familiar
teaching. I will be able to reflect on what plan on attending these and with. I will have small goals to include 1
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will you take has worked and what has not worked as especially paying attention to those activity every other day, they every day, then
to complete my experience grows. that have to do with differentiation in be able to implement them multiple times a
this goal, and I can write down in a strategies of the classroom. day smoothly.
by when will classroom management book what has I like the idea of writing down what
you take worked and what has not. I will be able to
works and what does not as well for
them? reflect and change this as years go by.
this goal. This way I can look back
and reflect on strategies and methods
Example:
to use year after year. I know that the
1/31/18: Join student’s counselors will also be able
AACTE to help me, I will keep an open
communication with them.
Resources: School professional development days. School professional development [Link]
What [Link] days. mindfulness-in-classroom-curriculum-
resources are learning/partnering-with-childs- [Link] giselle-shardlow
available to school/instructional-strategies/6- com/courses/differentiated- This along with many other articles will help
assist you in strategies-teachers-use-to-help-kids- instruction/ me to figure out how to implement
accomplishing with-learning-and-attention-issues This class would help me learn new mindfulness in the classroom .
your goal? There are multiple articles that could help tactics
me and this is just one I found with little and help meet all of these student
research. needs.
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