OVERVIEW: This resource will help teachers track and assess their professional growth, effort to enhance content

knowledge,
initiating and fulfillment of professional responsibilities year long.
Tracking and Assessing Professional Growth
Teachers will be able to quickly assess and track month by month their engagement in professional growth activities across
Objective: curriculums and practices, team based involvements, and leadership roles within their school, network, and district
Domain 4: Professional Responsibilities
Component 4d: Growing and Developing Professionally
Domain: Elements:
Component: Enhancement of Content Knowledge and Pedagogical Skill
Element(s): Collaboration and Professional Inquiry to Advance Student Learning
Participation in School Leadership Team and/or Teacher Teams
Incorporation of Feedback
Proficient for Component 4d: Distinguished for Component 4d:
Teacher seeks opportunities for professional growth to enhance Teacher initiates opportunities for professional growth and makes a systematic
content knowledge and pedagogical skill and uses new effort to enhance content knowledge and pedagogical skill of self and
Levels of knowledge to improve practice. Teacher regularly collaborates colleagues. S/he uses new knowledge to improve practice of self and
with and provides/receives support to/from colleagues. Teacher colleagues. Teacher invites meetings and initiates collaborations with
Performance participates actively in team based professional inquiry that colleagues. Teacher provides and accepts collegial support and feedback
from the CPS advances student learning and makes substantial contribution to/from colleagues. Teacher participates in and facilitates professional inquiry
Framework: to the school leadership team and/or grade level/ with school team to advance student learning and serves on a leadership
content/department teaching team. Teacher accepts and and/or teaching team. Teacher welcomes and uses feedback from a variety of
consistently uses feedback from colleagues and administrators stakeholders (e.g. colleagues, administrators, students, parents, external
to improve practice and advance student learning. education partners) to improve practice and advance student learning.

Connections Across Component 4e: Demonstrating Professionalism

the Framework:
Grade: All grades
Audience All subjects
Subject:
Learn It!
Try It!
Print It!
 Tracking and Assessing Professional Growth

Purpose: This useful tracker will help teachers to analyze and plan their school, network, and district professional development choices and
attendance of opportunities taken for their year-long professional growth. As well as help make a systematic effort to enhance content
knowledge and pedagogical skills of self and their colleagues. It will also help teachers review monthly what domains and components of the
teaching framework are being enhanced through their own initiatives, as well as leadership roles and participation.

How to use: This tracker may be used digitally or as a hard copy. Please see example below:

Domain(s)/
Component(s)
School Network District Enhanced
Helped create and facilitate back to school Attended network math curriculum PD Attended Framework shop Google Classroom 4c, 4d
September night with Administration team session 1
Became part of schools LLT Attended Framework shop Google Classroom 4d, 4e
session 2
Planned and facilitated grade level field trip to 3c
orchard
Created and communicated to families photo 4c
sharing site
Met with grade level team to discuss and plan 4d
math night
Introduced and implemented Google 1d
Classroom to students.
Created quiz and digital assignment for 1d, 1e
students to complete on Google Classroom
 Domain(s)/
Component(s)
School Network District Enhanced

Summer

September

October

November
 Domain(s)/
School Network District Component(s)
Enhanced

December

January

February

March
 Domain(s)/
Component(s)
School Network District Enhanced

April

May

June