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:

Get hired as a teacher and have my Establish classroom procedures Implement routines and remain
own classroom consistent

Rationale: Why did I chose this goal because to be the
you choose this goal? teacher I want to be, I need to be in
How do you expect it my own classroom and running the
to improve the show. This is the first step in
outcomes of your becoming a teacher and will give me
the full opportunity to prepare my
future students?
students for success.
End Date: By when I hope to be in a position with my
do you expect to own classroom no later than fall of
accomplish this goal? 2021.
Action Timeline: To accomplish this goal, I will be
What steps will you taking my state exams in January of
take to complete this 2020 and applying for my CA
goal, and by when preliminary credential. I will then
begin applying to the various school
will you take them?
districts and interview as possible.
Example:
1/31/18: Join AACTE
Resources: What The resources available to me in
resources are accomplishing these goals are the to-
do list my counselor has provided, the
I chose this goal because it is vital to
a successful classroom and successful
students. If I cannot provide a
structure for students, the classroom
will be chaos. I have come to the
conclusion that if I tried to establish
MY procedures in just one year, I will
never make it. I hope to run plenty of
trial and errors to find what works
best for my classroom.
I hope to establish this structure by
my third year of teaching.
To accomplish this goal, I need to
research as many different possible
procedures as I can. I need to
implement these researched strategies
and try them out a few at a time and
gain a strong sense of how they may
work in my classroom with varying
students each year.
Resources available to me include
colleagues, observing and watching
One of the largest issues I have had
throughout my student teaching is my
consistency. I struggle to maintain a
constant routine for rewards and
consequences. This makes it
challenging to earn my students’ trust
and if I can build this rapport with my
students, I can be successful and so
can they.
I plan to achieve this goal by my 4th
or 5th year of teaching.
To accomplish this goal, I need to
also implement trial and error into my
classroom. Alongside trial and error, I
need to be flexible. I need to find
ways that I can move around other
people’s ideas and turn them into my
own with my own guidelines.
Resources available to me include
colleagues, observing and watching

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 available to assist you teachers and administrators I have videos of other teachers, Pinterest and videos of other teachers, Pinterest and
in accomplishing your met through my student teaching, the teachers pay teachers. teachers pay teachers.
goal? San Diego County Office of
Education and the online websites for
AZ and CA credentialing.

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