PROFESSIONAL GROWTH PLAN

Name: Aidan OBrien

School Year: 2014/15

Goal: To develop my ability to design effective and engaging lesson
plans in my major (art) and the visual arts applicability in other subject
areas.
Strategies For Goal
Achievement

Timelines

Colleagues/Mentors
Comments

Become more familiar with

the Alberta Curriculum
learning outcomes in my
subject area. Reflect on how
the SLOs interact with
important technical skills
and concepts in visual arts.
As well as how visual arts
can be incorportated in
learning in other core
subjects.

Ongoing

My TA or other teacher at
the school who teaches
visual arts to my class will
be able to give me examples
of successful lesson plans.
My TA could also provide
an overview of different
subject areas in which visual
exercises can improve
understanding of other
subjects.

Improve my understanding
Ongoing
of the ages at which students
can develop specific skills in
visual arts.

I will put my own

observations to my TA and
consultant to assess their
validity. I will do my own
research on how visual
understanding develops in
children.
I will discuss with my ideas
and lesson plans with my
TA before and after lessons
to assess their effectiveness.

I will use my teaching time

Ongoing
to experiment with using
visuals and visual arts
principals to enhance student
understanding of concepts in
other core subjects.

Indicators and Measures of Goal Achievement: When I can meaningfully incorporate the
visual arts in teaching in other subject areas this goal will be complete. This means that
the components that include visual arts tie directly to the learning objectives in other
subject areas in my lessons.