Professional Learning Plan

GOAL SETTING

NAME: Tayla Johnson

Year Level / Learning Area: 8, 9, 10, 11 English, 11 Literature
Line Manager / Supervisor: Tim Hartwich
Principal or Delegate:
DATE OF COMPLETION: 21 / 03 / 17

Your Professional Learning Plan (PLP) is designed to assist you in determining and meeting your annual goals to
enhance your professional knowledge, practice and engagement. The plan consists of self-assessment against the
Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, Goal Setting and a Review. Your agreed annual goals are intended
to support continuous improvement for you and your school. The goals will be based on your self-assessment,
aligned with the Colleges annual strategic intents, and informed by a range of feedback from leadership, colleagues
and students.

PLAN - Reflection & Goal Setting

Reflect on School foci
Set Professional Learning Goals
Meet with Colleague or Coach

DO - Professional Practice & Learning

Participate in Professional Development
Professional Learning
Action
Evidence Gathering

CHECK - Feedback & Review

Self Reflection
Meeting with Line Manager or Supervisor
Meet with Principal or Delegate

ACT - Formulate Improvement Actions

Establish Revised Actions to achieve Goals

Our Victory Lutheran College Performance and Development Cycle (PDCA Cycle) is based on four elements: Plan,
Do, Check and Act. This is underpinned by the key focus on improving student outcomes through a clear
understanding of effective teaching, coherence, flexibility and leadership.
Regular updates and recorded action on this documentation will meet the current EA requirement for staff to have
a negotiated Professional Learning Plan. Recording the APST focus areas against your goals, and professional
development and learning activities, will assist you to meet the requirements for Teacher Registration renewal.
 Goal Setting

COLLEGE STRATEGIC GOALS Victory 20 20 Strategic Vision

Share in the section below how you intend to contribute toward the Colleges Strategic Goals throughout the year.
APST Focus Outcomes Sought Intention & Progress Notes
Areas (Description) (Updated throughout the year)
Addressed
Visible Learning Strategies Assessment
applied to Classroom Practice capable learners:
use of Mindframes:
I set learning
1. I am a evaluator
2. I am a change agent intentions for
3. I talk about learning, not about
teaching
classes, and have
4. I see assessment as feedback to me students set
5. I engage is dialogue, not monologue
6. I enjoy challenge SMARTER goals
7. I develop positive relationships for the year
8. I inform all about the language of
learning ahead.
9. I see learning as hard work

Communication with Contact each

Parents and Students parent of the
students in my
Caregroup and
complete the call
log.

Building positive Students wrote

relationships with Students letters to me on
their first day.
Conversations with
students show
interest in their
lives.
Speak to students
outside of the
classroom, on yard
duty and at school
events.
Improve Student Learning Set high
Outcomes expectations, give
students clear
learning critera,
provide worked
examples (what
success looks like),
give opportunities
for improvements
 Goal Setting

PERSONAL PROFESSIONAL LEARNING GOALS

Professional learning goals should be aligned with the school strategic goals, negotiated and can be:

An identified and agreed skill or area requiring development, based on the school professional
learning foci, or a curriculum need.
An aspect of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers being strategically developed. Transfer
areas you self- assessed as level 2 or 3 from the review.
An agreed area of professional personal interest.

Here is an example of how you may use the goal setting form. You can copy as many goal sections into your
own form as you need.

Title: Differentiation of teaching and learning

By: End Semester 1
I will: incorporate appropriate differentiation in my units of work
So that: the scope of strategies meets the learning needs of students across the full range of abilities.
My strategy:
I will research a range of approaches to differentiation.
I will plan and implement a variety of approaches to the delivery of the curriculum, including assessment, to
meet student learning needs
I will review the effectiveness of the approaches used through student feedback and student outcomes in
formative and summative assessment tasks.
Related focus areas:
1.5. 2.2, 2.6, 4.1, 5.1, 8.4
 Goal Setting

APST Gain full registration with VIT

FOCUS GOAL Title
AREA(S)
By: The end of term 3 (end of my contract).

I will: Have completed requirements of full VIT registration and met with panel to
discuss
So that: I can gain full registration with VIT before my next step in my career begins.

Create a new weebly in line with my graduate version

My Strategy: Collect and collate evidence for each AITSL
Regular meetings with Tim
New weebly has been created
Progress Notes: Sourcing possible evidence items into a VIT folder
Online course through VIT with info on how to gain full registration in July.

APST Make contact with Caregroup parents

FOCUS GOAL Title
AREA(S)
By: The end of term 1

I will: Call each parent of students in my Caregroup

So that: I can build relationships with parents and introduce myself as a point of
reference for pastoral concerns.

My Strategy: Call parents intermittently throughout the term, but also try to make contact at
school events e.g. sports carnivals, around the school, PT interviews etc.
7 families have been contacted 14/3
Progress Notes: 17 families have been contacted 20/3
Some PT interviews with Caregroup students
Plan to finish these calls this week (week 8)

APST Goal setting in line with visual learning

FOCUS GOAL Title
AREA(S)
By: The end of term 3 (end of my contract)

I will: Teach my students how to set SMARTER goals

So that: They can start to take responsibility for their learning and watch their
progress
TERM 1: Set a goal for English for the year
My Strategy: TERM 2: Revisit this goal and Evaluate
TERM 3: Revisit this goal and Re-evaluate
Year 8, 9 & 10 English classes wrote letters to me in their first lesson this
Progress Notes: year, and within these, decided on a SMARTER goal for English this year
Beginning of term 2, we will revisit this goal with the SMARTER structure,
and Evaluate.
Approval by Principal
These are negotiated and agreed goals: YES NO
(or Delegate)

Date: Principal: