1. Developing an Individual Professional Growth Plan
Agenda
Purpose of a IPGP
Effective IPGP Planning
Creating a Vision
Connecting to Standards
Identifying Performance Levels (Personal and School)
Writing Your Goals
Developing a Plan of Action
Evaluating Your Plan
Creating a Portfolio

2. Developing Individual Professional Growth Plans
(IPGP)

3. Purpose of the IPGP
To assist in developing long-range goals that will directly affect what is done in the classroom to improve student achievement.

4. Individual Professional Growth Plan
is a living document.
can change as you grow and meet your goals.
should be reviewed and modified annually with input from supervisor, critical friend, and colleagues.
is a mobile document that can move with you.

5. Why develop a plan? Job requirement Plan provides structure
Goals lead to results: Senge says that “goals represent commitment”
Similar to walking into a classroom without a lesson plan and no idea about what you want to accomplish

6. Effective Professional Growth Planning
Balances needs of staff, students, school and district
Focuses on student learning and connects individual needs to student needs
Reflects educational initiatives

7. Effective Professional Growth Planning
Includes reflection as part of individual learning and growth
Includes documentation of the outcomes
Utilizes the Kentucky PD Standards as a guide

8. Effective Professional Growth Plans are based on:
School CSIP
Your Practice
Individual areas identified by the SISI evaluation
Evaluates and documents your effort
Kentucky PD Standards

9. When Developing Your Plan
Clear guidelines and evaluation methods should be established for determining successful completion of your plan.
Schedule quality time with supervisors, critical friends, and colleagues to discuss what you want to accomplish.

10. Engaging in Collaboration
Consider ways to collaborate
Develop joint plans
Involve critical friends in the evaluation of your learning

11. Dufour and Eaker’s New Model
“The learning community model …..requires schools to function as a learning community characterized by a shared mission, vision and values, collective inquiry, collaborative teams, an orientation toward action and willingness to experiment, commitment to continuous improvement and a focus on results.”

12. Activity #1: Creating a Vision of Professional Development
I want to participate in PD that ….
PD that would inspire my interest and commitment would….
My colleagues and I deserve PD that….
Student learning will be enriched by PD for teachers that….
PD should….
Effective PD will…….

13. Vision Statement for PD
I will get the PD I want and need when it
Is based on what is known about adult learners.
Supports me in the change process as well as the change itself.
Presents content that has proven value in increasing learning for my students.
Is delivered through appropriate models.
Builds engagement in collegial learning.
Is data-driven.
Provides opportunities for teachers as leaders, peer coaches, and researchers.
Provides adequate time for inquiry, implementation, and joint work.
Aligns the efforts of teachers, schools and the district.

14. National Staff Development Council Standards for Staff Development
Staff development that improves the learning of all students.
Context Standards
Process Standards
Content Standards

15. Context Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:
Organizes adults into learning communities whose goals are aligned with those of the school and district (Learning Communities – SISI Standard 6)
Requires skillful school and district leaders who guide continuous instructional improvement. (Leadership – SISI Standard 7)
Requires resources to support adult learning and collaboration. (Resources – SISI Standard 8)

16. Process Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:
Uses disaggregated student data to determine adult learning priorities, monitor progress, and help sustain continuous improvement. ( Data-Driven – SISI Standard 2)
Uses multiple sources of information to guide improvement and demonstrate impact. (Evaluation – SISI Standard 6)
Prepares educators to apply research to decision making. (Research-Based – SISI Standard 6)

17. Process Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:
Uses learning strategies appropriate to the intended goals. (Design – SISI Standard 3)
Applies learning about human learning and change. (Learning – SISI Standard 3)
Provides educators with the knowledge and skills to collaborate. (Collaboration – SISI Standard 6)

18. Content Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:
Prepares educators to understand and appreciate all students, create safe, orderly and supportive learning environments, and hold high expectations for their academic achievement. (Equity – SISI Standard 4)
Provides educators with knowledge and skills to involve families and other stakeholders appropriately. (Family Involvement – SISI Standard 5)

19. Content Standards
Staff development that improves the learning of all students:
Deepens the educator’s content knowledge, provides them with research-based instructional strategies to assist students in meeting rigorous academic standards, and prepares them to use various types of classroom assessments appropriately. (Quality teaching – SISI Standard 3)

20. Why use the SISI, Core Content, POS, AE and KY PD Standards?
Grounded in research
Addresses system and culture
Uses process standards that consider how professional learning is done
Uses content standards that examine what students must know and be able to do

21. The SISI and KY PD Standards can also be used to
Develop a knowledge base of effective PD practices
Develop proposal for program improvement
Develop funding proposals
Analyze current programs
Determine areas for improvement
Design and implement IPGPs

22. Activity #2: Determining Your Professional Growth Based on the SISI
Using the SISI Personal Evaluation Form identify your personal performance level on each indicator.
Next, using the same form, identify the performance level of your school.

23. Activity #3: Matching Your Scores to those of Your School
Look first at the standards and indicators where you are undeveloped or somewhat developed.
Match your lowest scores with those of your school, then narrow the list to two standards and the indicators where you wish to improve.

24. Activity #4: Using The PGP Development Plan
For each of the two standards that you have chosen:
Identify the knowledge you wish to extend.
Identify the skills you would like to further develop.

25. An Individual Professional Development Plan includes:
GOALS
I will……….
In what area……..
And then……..

26. An Individual Professional Development Plan includes:
Basis for Your Goals
How is your goal linked to your individual needs – how did you identify your need and what reflection data did you use?
How is your goal linked to the CSIP?
How is your goal linked to student achievement?

27. IPGP Guidelines and Suggestions
Goals and objectives should be measurable.
Goals should relate to the school goals and priorities and the SISI standards.
Work only on items that you have time to cover efficiently.
Quality, not quantity is important.

28. Questions to consider:
What do I want to share as a result of my learning?
How will I judge the quality of my work?
How does my practice impact student achievement?
How do the school’s goals impact my goals?
How can I improve or strengthen my practices?
How can I work with others to address my goals?

29. Questions to consider:
What skills, knowledge or ability do I need to gain?
How will I know I have accomplished my goals?
What will I do when mastery is not demonstrated? (students, teachers, administrators)
What can I collect as evidence of my PD efforts.

30. Questions to ask for specific goals
Would student test scores improve if I worked more with teachers on inquiry in science classes?
Would examining student work help me to better understand specific student’s needs?

31. Writing Your Goals Strategic and Specific Measurable Attainable
Results-oriented
Time-bound

32. Example of a SMART Goal
As a result of using student discourse, the percentage of students in my room passing the mathematics proficiency test will increase this year by 20%.

33. Strategic and Specific – increase in number of students passing test
As a result of using student discourse, the percentage of students in my room passing the mathematics proficiency test will increase this year by 20%.
Strategic and Specific – increase in number of students passing test
Measurable – 20% increase
Attainable – possible to achieve
Results-oriented – specific results stated
Time-bound – this year’s test

34. Strategic and Specific – increase in number of students passing test
As a result of using student discourse, the percentage of students in my room passing the mathematics proficiency test will increase this year by 20%.
Strategic and Specific – increase in number of students passing test
Measurable – 20% increase
Attainable – possible to achieve
Results-oriented – specific results stated
Time-bound – this year’s test

35. Goals that are NOT SMART:
Encourage students to accept greater responsibility
Prepare to move to block scheduling
Integrate technology into the curriculum
(Note: connection to CSIP goals, strategies and activities.)

36. Steps in writing your goal
State the learning goal by using verbs that describe the learning that will result in improvement.
Example: I will learn about…..
I will study….
I will gain an understanding of…..

37. Steps in writing your goal
2. State how the goal will be applied to practice – will it be applied to curriculum, instruction, assessment, or supervision and what work will you do?
Example: I will learn more mathematics to
improve my content knowledge.
I will gain an understanding of diversity
and how it will enrich my classroom.

38. Steps in writing your goal
3. Describe the evidence you will collect that you have accomplished your learning goal and it has had an impact on your practice.
Example: I will create a portfolio.
I will analyze student work.
I will create a reflective journal.

39. Activity #5: Using The PGP Development Plan
Write two growth goals that emerge from the two standard that you have chosen.

40. Techniques for Professional Learning to Use in Accomplishing Your Goals
Increase subject knowledge
Join study groups
Improve curriculum
Conduct lesson study (tuning protocol)
Examine student work
Use technology
Conduct action research
Form partnerships
Examine case studies
Coach and mentor

41. Sample PGP Activities: Job-Embedded
Externships
Peer coaching
Grant writing
Professional writing (example:Reading First)

42. Activity #6: Using The PGP Development Plan
Develop a plan of action to achieve your goals:
strategies/activities;
timelines;
who you need assistance from to implement your strategies/activities

43. Evidence of Accomplishment
What evidence will you submit to show what you have accomplished?
When will you review your plan and make adjustments?

44. Activity #7: Using The PGP Development Plan
Determine the methods you will use to:
Show evidence that the activity or strategy occurred
Document the impact that the strategy/activity has had on improving student achievement

45. Reflection Before you plan After you plan
After you engage in PD activities
Throughout the PD process

46. Basic Reflection Questions
What happened?
Why?
So what?
Now what?
Resource: Reflective Practice to Improve Schools: An Action Guide for Educators
by Jennifer York-Barr, et. Al.

47. Activity #8: Evaluating Your Plan
With your partner, respond to these questions when reviewing your plan:
Do the goals and the plan reflect your needs as well as your school’s needs?
Does your plan reflect new learning and growth, not just time and effort?
Does your plan reflect how student achievement will be enhanced?
Have you included methods of assessment?
Have you identified evidence that you will gather?

48. Creating a Portfolio Activity log Samples of student work
Data and data analysis
Certificates of attendance
Published articles
PowerPoint presentations

49. Portfolios Should be organized and easy to understand
Have a clear connection between materials and IPGP
Reflect professionalism
Cover a broad spectrum of materials (address all 9 SISI standards)
Include reflective pieces

50. Websites http://www.enc.org/professional/guide/strategies/
Ideas That Work: Mathematics Professional Development
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