Kristen Wooten

Professional Growth Plan:

Planning and Preparation-Classroom Environment-Instruction-Professional Responsibilities

First Year of Teaching Goals: In my first year of teaching I want to become a More Confident
Educator in my content and delivery. This will require careful preparation on my part, and I will
need to take the time to become more comfortable with my content in order to deliver it the next
day efficiently. As I put in the work on my own time to become more confident with the content
the classroom environment I create will be more focused because I will know just what I want
my students to know and work with. I will need time to become less nervous about giving
instruction and can lean on other teachers for advice after watching me and tips I can learn from
observing them. It is my own professional responsibility that my students are receiving the most
focused and confident instruction they can, this will help my classroom management and keeps
me from wasting students time.
Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Timeline
I will need to The first year I Each week I can It is vital that a I plan to keep a
become more can help my write down how new teacher record of how
confident as an confidence by my delivery and learn to be the week went
educator in the becoming more instruction were confident in every Friday,
areas of direct familiar with my and ask another front of her collecting notes
instruction and content by teacher to watch class. Classroom to myself
content delivery bringing home a me and offer me management is throughout the
in order to be a text- book and feedback. directly week and paying
more effective reading through Through keeping impacted by the close attention to
teacher. I am it every day, and a record of how lack of teacher patterns or
more nervous by asking each week feels confidence and behaviors that
than I want to be another veteran and noting what is therefore of help or hurt my
while I am in teacher to help helps and what the utmost confidence. Each
front of the mentor me. does not I can importunate to quarter I can see
class. discover a the teacher, how I have
pattern that can students, team changed and can
repeat and and school. create a plan of
replicate in action for my
lesson I am weak areas for
nervous for. By the next quarter.
asking another
teacher to watch
me, she can tell
me how I have
improved or not
over time and
offer me advice
on how to
become more
natural.
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3 Year goals: Create the Classroom Environment Most Conducive to Learning. In the next
couple years of teaching I want to shift my focus from becoming a confident teacher to create the
best classroom learning environment that I can. This will require that I spend time researching
successful methods depending on the classroom environment I want. I can do this by evaluating
what kind of environment I want for a lesson or unit or as a year goal, then finding methods to
try in my classes. One way to do this is to talk with other educators in the community and online.
One huge goal of mine is to create the least stressful classroom environment in which I will need
to survey my students discover what is stressing them out and come up with a plan of action to
create a better environment for them. Within my instruction I can implement the strategies I learn
the students respond well to, for example taking deep breath together before a test with the lights
off. It is my own professional responsibility that my students are in an environment that helps
them be successful, I can and will reach out to my community to help me develop methods that
increase learning.
Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Timeline
I will work in Every time I try I can try to add Knowing that This project will
years 2-3 to a new strategy, I something new this will take be carried out
learn how to can keep a log in in my teaching time, it is vital to for two years as
create a a new binder every two my students I become more
classroom about what I did weeks. The first learning that I familiar with my
environment and how the week I will try a become the best grade level and
most conducive students were new strategy for educator I can student
to learning by affected. the first time and be. One way of population. New
studying my Eventually I will log results. The doing this is strategies will be
students and be able to format second week I adding strategies implemented
trying new this binder by will try it again to my toolbox into instruction
methods based environmental and see if I get that help create a every 2-3 weeks,
on research and impact whether the same or positive and depending on the
success. it be: focus, similar results. If effective outcome, and
positivity or I do not, I can classroom logged.
exploration. I try it one more environment.
can join an time and decide
online if it was
community of effective for my
educators and classroom or
collaborate not.
about my results
and ask for
advice when
needed.

Long Term Goals: 5 Years Plan: Take on More Responsibility as an AVID Educator. In the
next five years of my career I plan on taking more responsibility in the school. I would like to
become an Avid Educator because of how much I believe in the programs worth.This will
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require that I spend time researching how to become an Avid educator and what credentials I will
need for my district or a district I could see myself in.I will need to become Avid certified and it
is my goal to achieve this at the end of year 5. I can learn about how this program creates a
workable and successful classroom environment by observing other teachers and talking with
them about what sets this program and its classes apart. In my own classroom instruction I can
begin to implement the strategies I learned from the other Avid educators and can find on the
Avid website. As a five year professional I would like to build my resume by taking on this
responsibility as Avid educator, this may mean I move schools or even districts but because it is
something I believe in and wish to support it will be a wise decision for me as a professional.
Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Timeline
At five years of By meeting with I can plan on This was a By the end of
being an my principal and attending every course I loved in year five I will
educator I plan the other AVID AVID high school and be AVID
on taking on educators as curriculum wish to giveback certified and will
more often as possible meeting possible with my time find myself in
responsibility in I can learn about and take the and skillset. I consideration of
the form of how to become AVID think this kind of the educator role
adding an AVID an AVID teacher certification test education either in my own
class to my own and what it in the summer, propels students school or
teacher schedule. would take to be and if it is into higher somewhere else
considered. By offered to attend achievement in the district.
the end of this the AVID percentiles than
year my goal educators they thought
would to become conference. possible and to
AVID certified. me this is of the
utmost
importance,

List of Professional Organizations in Which You Plan to Participate

● AVID within the district and schools. I plan to become familiar with this program, who

runs it and the teachers who carry out its legacy in order to learn from them and build

relationships. I would one day love to teach this course and this is a great first step to

meeting that goal.

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● Arizona Council for The Social Studies: Participate in conferences and possibly trips with

other educators to learn about myself as a teacher and about the history around me.

● American Board Blog : A resource written by teachers for teachers

https://www.americanboard.org/blog/the-best-blogs-written-by-teachers-for-teachers/