Assignment #4b: Setting Professional Development Goals Kelly Huck, Fall 2018

Professional Development Goals

Name: Jessica Hemstreet Section:

KSA Indicators or Measures

Goal #1 Strategies (Actions) Resources
Reference of Success

-Get to know students early

on to learn their needs
-Ask students what they
-Students and their -Review of students’
need from their teacher to
opinions enjoyment and approval of
Include and celebrate learn best
-Teacher resource lessons and activities
student differences in KSA 5, 7, 8, -Compile needs, strategies,
books/articles -Reflection of lessons and
lesson and day 11 games, techniques, tools
-Teacher resource how well they went over
planning etc. that benefit students
websites with the students
-Find ways to include all
-Peer Teachers -
students and their
differences in lessons and
activities
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KSA
Goal #2 Strategies (Actions)
Reference
-Understand students
learning needs
-Research techniques that
Find and apply a are applicable for students
multitude of teaching needs
KSA 5, 6, 9,
strategies that are -Ask students how they
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appropriate and prefer to learn
beneficial to students -Apply techniques to lesson
plans
-Test out techniques across a
number of subjects
KSA
Goal #3 Strategies (Actions)
Reference
-Reflect on every lesson and
day afterwards
-Don’t be afraid to
acknowledge and record
failures
-Find ways to correct those
Improve in deeply
failures and try them again
reflecting in lessons
KSA 1, 15 -Celebrate successes and
and appraising their
record them for future use
successes or failures
-Figure out why lessons were
successful and record for
future use
-Reflect on lessons no
matter how many times they
have been successful
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Indicators or
Resources
Measures of Success
-Consistently reviewing
-Teacher resource lesson plans and strategies
books/articles used
-Teacher resource -Reflecting on lessons and
websites
strategies to see what was
-Peer teachers
successful with students
-Students’ preferences -Asking students their
opinions of new techniques
used in lessons
Indicators or Measures
Resources
of Success
-Reflection logs would
increase as reflections
-Lesson plans increase
-Reflection guiding -The more successful
resources (books, lessons/activities you
articles, websites) record, the more you should
-Peer teachers, be able to find successful
Mentors techniques, therefore
leading to more successful
lessons
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Addressing Professional Knowledge, Skills and The following chart denotes the
alignment of the Alberta KSA’s
Attributes (KSAs) with instruction in the PSII
Professional Semester Two modules

Education 3602
Knowledge, Skills and Attributes for Alberta Teachers Educational Psychology of
Exceptional Learners

1- Teachers make reasoned decisions about teaching and learning based on their ongoing analysis of contextual variables.

2- Teachers understand the legislated, moral and ethical framework within which they work.

3- Teachers use the programs of study to inform and direct planning instruction and assessment.

4- Teachers demonstrate knowledge of the content they teach.

5- Teachers identify and respond to learner differences.

6- Teachers plan for instruction, translating curriculum and outcomes into meaningful learning activities.

7- Teachers create and maintain environments that are conducive to student learning and understand student needs for physical,
social, cultural and psychological security.

8- Teachers establish relationships with students that respect human dignity

9- Teachers use a broad range of instructional strategies.

10 - Teachers apply a variety of technologies to meet students’ learning needs.

11 - Teachers gather and use information about students’ learning needs and progress and assess the range of learning objectives.

12 - Teachers engage parents, purposefully and meaningfully, in all aspects of teaching and learning.

13 - Teachers identify and use relevant learning resources.

14 - Teachers contribute, independently and collegially, to the quality of their school.

15 - Teachers engage in assessing the quality of their teaching.

16 - Teachers are able to communicate a personal vision of their own teaching.

Assignment #4b: Setting Professional Development Goals Kelly Huck, Fall 2018

Setting Professional Development Goals

Rubric: Score: /5

1: Approaching Standards
Goal 1 2 3
2: Meeting Standards
KSA Reference 1 2 3 3: Above Standards
Goal #1 Strategies 1 2 3
Resources 1 2 3
Indicator of Success 1 2 3
Goal 1 2 3
KSA Reference 1 2 3
Goal #2 Strategies 1 2 3
Resources 1 2 3
Indicator of Success 1 2 3
Goal 1 2 3
KSA Reference 1 2 3
Goal #3 Strategies 1 2 3
Resources 1 2 3
Indicator of Success 1 2 3