Action Plan for Professional Growth

Professional Planning Chart

Overall Goal: Love and faithfulness keep a king safe; through love his throne is made secure. Proverbs 20:28
Specific
Goals

AST
Student
Teaching

-I would like to
be even more
intentional about
reaching
struggling
students. I dont
want them to slip
through the
cracks during my
lessons!
TPE 8 They
identify students
needing
specialized
instruction,
including
students whose
physical
disabilities,
learning

Spiritual
Practical
Preparation (for
Preparation (for
each goal)
each goal)
-Seeing the gold in -Plan for at least
each student
differentiation
options and
I praise you
actually be
because I am
prepared to use
fearfully and
them.
wonderfully made; (EL, special needs,
your works are
learning
wonderful, I know differences, ect.)
that full well.
Psalm 139:14
-Letting God fill
me with his
strength and
compassion for
these students
-Realizing that he
will be faithful to
grow me and to

Expected
Obstacles
(for each goal)
-Resistance from
students
-Extra time for
planning and
preparation
-Extra energy to be
creative

How I Will
Overcome (for each
goal)
-Schedule in extra
time for lesson
planning
-Brainstorm with
professors, Master
Teachers, and fellow
students
-Praying by name for
each struggling
studentGods heart
for these students
becomes my heart

disabilities, or
health status
require
instructional
adaptations, and
students who are
gifted.

-Practice giving
succinct
explanations for
class rules,
directions for
lessons, and
agendas so
students are
completely clear

grow my students
But blessed is the
one who trusts in
the Lord, whose
confidence is in
him, They will be
like a tree planted
be the water that
sends out its roots
be the stream. It
does not fear when
heat comes; its
leaves are always
green. It has no
worries in a year
of drought and
never fails to bear
fruit. Jeremiah
17:7-8
-Being clear and
precise with my
word choices
honors the
intelligent and
intuitive minds
God gives my
students

-Have an explicit,
written out, game
plan similar to the
classroom
management plan
-Brainstorm with
Professors and
peers to refine my

-Clarity might still

be an issue
-Resistance from
students

-Have a
Professor/Peer/Maste
r Teacher come and
observe me and offer
tips on how I might
better convey my
thoughts and
intentions

on what is
expected of
themPrecision
and economy =
Clarity for the
student
TPE 5 They
ensure that
students
understand
what they are to
do during
instruction and
monitor student
progress toward
academic goals.
-Bring students
into a higher
order thinking. I
was really good
at asking my
students
questions this
semester and
getting them to
think about the
material, but I
would like to

-Ask God to make

me intentional
with my words
choices and the
way I conduct
myself around
students

thinking

The wicked put

up a bold front,
but the upright
give thought to
their ways.
Proverbs 21:29

-As I prepare for

each
teacher/student
interaction
(classroom,
tutoring,
conferences) ask
God to reveal deep
kingdom truths to
instill into my
students.

-Brainstorm with

professors/peers
who have taught
similar lessons or
been in similar
situationshow
did they take their
students deeper
-Whenever
possible, apply
real life

-Get the dreaded I -Have a list of

dont know apathy responses prepared
from a student
for apathetic
statements

take them even

deeper.
TPE 5
Candidates
teach students to
respond to and
frame
meaningful
questions.

Walk in the way

of insight.
Proverbs 9:6

application to the
material
-Make it personal
to my students

Briana Kwiatek
522
Professional Growth Plan
Date Due: December 3, 2015
Date Submitted: December 3, 2015