Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Timeline
1st year
2016 - 2017
Professional Goals
Get a full time teaching position
Attend CSTA Conference
Oct. 21-23, 2016, Palm Springs,
NSTA National Conference
March 30-April 2, 2017, Los Angeles
SCAAPT workshops
Dec. 2016, March 2017
Attend CSTA Conference, TBD
NSTA National Conference, TBD
nd
2 year
2017 - 2018
rd
3 year
2018 - 2019
SCAAPT workshops
Mathematics certification
Attend CSTA Conference, TBD
4th year
2019 - 2020
5th year
2020 - 2021
My professional development plan for the next five years is multi-faceted. I also plan to
get certificated to be able to teach mathematics as well as chemistry. I feel that it is
natural to do so, since mathematics is the language of nature, that is physics, and
chemistry is the other basic science next to physics. Although chemistry is the science of
materials changing their characteristics, those new compounds still have to obey the basic
natural laws, such as pressure, temperature etc. In essence, I plan to become a complete
basic science teacher. Once there, I will attend the conferences for those subjects, too, so
my professional development will be continuous and ever wider, not only in the
mentioned subjects, but in the methodologies of teaching/presenting those subjects in the
most optimal level. I also plan to get involved in science clubs as well as robotics but the
opportunities to get involved in those fields is/will be dependent on the school where I
will be teaching. I do plan to get involved in them all the same, and if not existent in the
school I plan to start those clubs and get other teachers and the administration involved,
too. I very much plan to keep busy developing and broadening my skills as a physics, and
later mathematics and chemistry teacher. It is important to have goals that correlate to
ones professional development that address the standards of ones subject, because as
Constantino and De Lorenzo (2009) state, performance standards identify the
knowledge disposition and skills that a teacher should know and be able to demonstrate
(p.67). Furthermore goals identify areas for professional development and correlate with
performance standards (Constantino & DeLorenzo, 2009, p.67.).
References
Costantino, P. & De Lorenzo, M. (2009). Developing a professional teaching portfolio: A
guide for success (3rd Ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.