Teacher Professional Growth Plan PSIII

Jill MacDougall
Grade 6, Arbour Lake School
Goals

Timelines

Develop
meaningful
relationships with
each student in my
classroom

September 2015 December 2015

* This goal should
be well established
by the end of the
first week with
students. Can then
continue to build
upon it.*

Strategies

Anticipated
Outcomes
-Engage in
- Students will
conversations with
become more
students about
comfortable with
things other than
me
academics
- Students will be
- Get to know each
more engaged in
of my students on a their learning
personal level
- Students will be
- Use information to happier
make lessons fun
-Students will be
and relevant to
more likely to share
students
both academically
- Engage in
and personally with
relationships with
me
parents, to help
- Students will
better my student
garner more
relationships
respect for me as a
teacher, and as a
person
- Students will be
able to relate to me
better

Success Indicators
- Student learning
will improve
- Students will be
willing to approach
me, and have a
conversation with
me
- When I am
teaching students
will respect my
rules, and my
authority
- Both myself and
my students will be
sad to see me go at
the end of
practicum
- My lessons will
reflect the interests
of my students
- Students and I will
be able to have
conversations

Become a larger
part of my school
community, and
connect with
students and staff
outside of my
classroom

September 2015
December 2015
*This is something
that I will be
working on
throughout the
semester, and
through my
commitment to
coaching wrestling,
and helping with
yearbook.*

- Coaching
wrestling
- Helping out with
yearbook
- Being given the
opportunity to
teach option
classes which is a
mix of grade six
students
- PIP
- Spend time
getting to know
staff members
outside of my team

Create consistent,
organized, and
concrete lesson
plans.

August 2015
December 2015

- Plan ahead of
time
- Keep all
documents and
papers organized
- Use resources to
help develop plans
- Plan scaffolding

about things other

than academics
- Garner respect
- Will have
from students and
successfully
other teachers and coached the
staff
wrestling team
- Do my part to
- Will be able to
create a healthy
name a number of
school community
staff and students
- I will be able to
at Arbour Lake
address students
School
and staff by name,
- Will have
and they will be
completed my PIP,
able to do the same that will lead to a
towards me
more complete
- I will be able to
school community
leave a lasting
- Will have taught
impact at Arbour
drama, physical
Lake School
education and
health which will be
students other than
my homeroom.
- Student learning
- Will have
will be improved
completed lesson
- I will be able to
plans and unit
teach lessons
plans ahead of
accurately and
time.
efficiently
- Plans will be kept
- My lessons will
organized in a
build upon one
binder, with

lessons that will

help build upon
previous learning
- Find ways to make
plans engaging and
interesting for
students, while still
hitting the
curriculum
outcomes
Learn to write a
proper IPP, and
some strategies to
implement them
within the
classroom.

September 2015
December 2015

-Work with my
teacher advisor on
my student IPPs.
- Learn to use the
SIRS program
- Read through past
IPPs and see how
they were
formatted and
implemented
- Do personal
research on IPPs
- Keep IPPs in mind
when planning
lessons and units
- Be a part of
meetings with
parents to assess
the IPP, and

another to
complete units, and
outcomes
- Students will be
able to follow along
easily, and see
their end goals
- Lessons will be
pre-planned,
engaging, and
knowledgeable.
- Will gain
knowledge that will
benefit me as a
future teacher
- Will be aware of
students with IPPs,
and can then better
support them
- Students with IPPs
will be better
supported by me as
a teacher
- Will have
resources to help
me in future IPP
situations
- Lessons will be
differentiated to fit
all the needs of my

reflections
- Plans will be
inventive, and
exciting
- Students will have
achieved learning
goals set out by me
and themselves for
certain units
- My lessons will be
differentiated and
accommodate
many learning
styles
- Student IPPs will
be done at the
beginning of the
year so they are
readily available
and implemented
- My teacher
mentor will be able
to vouch that I have
in fact taken the
time to learn from
him about IPPs
- Will have an
organized binder

develop it.

students

that will have

research
information about
IPPs, as well as
anything else that
my teacher mentor
can provide
- Will have a
working knowledge
of SIRS