Individualized Professional Development Plan

Name: Kate Okolocha

Elementary or Secondary: Elementary
Major: Elementary Education: Language Art
Minor: None
Semester Student Teaching Completed: Spring 2016
School Building: St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School
District: East Fulton
Grade/Subject: Fourth Grade (Integrated)

List any memberships to professional organizations for teachers:

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
List any workshops or conferences that you have attended in the past 2 years:
Parent Teacher Conferences for Fourth Grade Spring 2016
Qualities of a Good Writer - Tom Rademacher
Fire Up! Student Teacher Conference March 2016
Heart Saver First Aid CPR AED March 2016
Creating and Facilitating a Safe Emotional Environment and the Educational Power of
Story Dave Kampfschulte

List any articles published, presentations given, awards received, committee assignments, or
research conducted within the past 2 years:
Aquinas College Deans List, December 2011 December 2015
Aquinas Alpha Sigma Lambda Membership, April 2013
What are your areas of strength?
Passionate about students
Good understanding of content knowledge
Building positive and professional relationships with students, staff and parents
Empathetic
Flexible with schedules
Organized
What are your areas in need of growth?
Preparing students for standardized tests
Effective use of differentiation of instructions for all learners
What are your immediate plans for professional development (within the next 1-2 years)?
To keep adding and developing my classroom management tool kit

Attending professional development conferences and meetings about elementary

education
Join educational groups to gain more knowledge from colleagues
Secure a teaching position in Nigeria

What are your future plans for professional development (3-5 years)?
Receive my Master of Education degree (M. Ed) in classroom management and reading
Obtain a Professional Teaching Certification
Work with students and families who struggle with poverty
Become a Fulbright scholar, thereby creating a more culturally-sensitive
classroom which will enhance my students global knowledge and awareness.