Fullerton Online Teacher Induction Program

Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) – Teacher Leader Project

Option
Revised 1.1.19
Directions: The ILP should be completed with Mentor input. Complete blue cells prior to classroom implementation. Complete orange cells after POP Cycle is completed. Cells will expand as
needed. When submitting completed ILP to instructor, please include copies of all instructional resources, including Google Survey used for assessment of audience satisfaction.
Section 1: New Teacher Information
New Teacher Email Subject Area Grade Level
Alexandra Brown abrown@magnoliapublicschools.org Social Studies 11-12
Mentor Email School/District Date
Magnolia Science Academy-
Jacob Chucker jchucker@magnoliapublicschools.org Santa Ana(Magnolia Public Spring 2020
Schools)
Section 2: CSTP Areas of Inquiry
Directions: Identify 2-3 CSTP elements for ILP focus. Use most recent CSTP Assessment for Initial Rating. Identify both teacher and student rating for CSTP 1 and 2. See example.
CSTP Element Initial Rating Description Goal Rating Description
T - Facilitates systematic opportunities for students to apply critical
T - Guide students to think critically through use of questioning strategies,
Promoting critical thinking thinking by designing structured inquires into complex problems.
T – Applying posing/solving problems, and reflection on issues in content. T – Innovating
1.5 through inquiry, problem S - Students pose and answer a wide-range of complex questions
S – Exploring S - Students respond to varied questions or tasks designed to promote S - Innovating
solving, and reflection and problems, reflect, and communicate understandings based on
comprehension and critical thinking in single lessons or a sequence of lessons.
in depth analysis of content learning.
Establish Sets and modifies authentic goals connected
professional goals Sets goals connected to the CSTP that are authentic, to the CSTP that are intellectually challenging
and engaging in challenging, and based on self-assessment. and based on self-assessment and feedback
continuous and Aligns personal goals with school and district goals, and T- from a variety of sources.
6.2 T-Applying
purposeful focuses on improving student learning. Integrating Engages in and contributes to professional
professional Selects and engages in professional development based development targeted on student
growth and on needs identified in professional goals. achievement. Pursues a variety of additional
development. opportunities to learn professionally.
Collaborate with
Collaborates with colleagues to expand impact
colleagues and the Collaborates with colleagues to improve student
on teacher and student learning within grade
broader learning and reflect on teaching practice at the
or department and school and district levels.
professional classroom level. T-
6.3 T-Applying Engages with members of the broader
community to Interacts with members of the broader professional Integrating
professional community to access resources
support teacher community to access resources that support teacher
and a wide range of supports for teaching the
and student effectiveness and student learning.
full range of learners.
learning.
Section 3: Teacher Leader Inquiry Focus and Planning
Project Title Inquiry Question Project Objective(s)
Teachers will learn strategies to use in a
What strategies are the most successful in promoting
Social Studies at the Secondary Level social studies classroom at the secondary
engagement in the social studies classroom?
level.
Audience for Project How Project Fits into Professional Goals and/or
How Audience Satisfaction will be Assessed
(Who Participates/Who Benefits) Department/School/District Needs
I will be helping my department by presenting them
with new strategies to use in their classrooms. This
will benefit the school as the Social Studies
Department will be able to work together to plan
The History Department at Magnolia Science Academy- effective lessons using new strategies. We have a
The participants will take a google form
Santa Ana. This will be for the social studies teachers 6-12 small Social Studies Department and we do not
survey at the end rating the presentation.
grade. often have the opportunity to meet and collaborate.
This fits my goal of working towards presenting a
PD. This presentation will be a starting point. Maybe
next year or in the year after I will be able to present
a PD that I create to the staff at my school.
Special Emphasis: Teacher Leader Model Standards and NBPTS Core Propositions
Directions: Identify at least one NBPTS and at least one Teacher Leader Model Standards that are the primary focus of your project. Explain how these standards will be incorporated.
Special Emphasis Focus How Special Emphasis will be Incorporated
TLS Domain 3: I will be taking what I learn at a professional development
opportunity and will pass that on to my colleagues (in my department). This will
TLS Domain 3: Promotes professional learning
promote continuous improvement within the social studies department and will
for continuous improvement.
help my colleagues to obtain new strategies to use in their classrooms.
NBPTS Proposition 5: Teachers are members of
NBPTS Proposition 5: This project will allow me to join attend a professional
professional communities.
development opportunity. I can network at this event and meet other social
studies teachers in my area.
Inquiry Implementation Plan

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 Discuss Results with
Analyze Results
Milestone 1 Milestone 2 Milestone 3 Mentor
Milestone 4
Milestone 5
Create
presentation Deliver
Review results
Identify name and date for based on Presentation to
activities. Register for PD. Attend PD of the project
information the History
with mentor.
learned at the Department
PD.
March 5th, 2020 April 2, 2020 April 2-19, 2020 April 28,2020 May 1, 2020
I will be attending a one day seminar, “101 Best Strategies for Teaching Social Studies(Grades 6-12)” by
Provide 1-2 sentence
Christopher Lange. After attending the seminar I will create a presentation that I can deliver for the social
summary of your teacher
leader project. studies department at my school about the new strategies I learned that we can incorporate into our
classrooms.
Summarize process for I will have the staff take a survey at the end of my presentation. This will allow me to assess my effectiveness
analyzing effectiveness of as a leader. I will be able to see how well I can communicate ideas to my department by examining their
leadership role. responses.
Section 4: Inquiry Research and Exploration
Research/Professional Learning (Identify two articles that have informed inquiry focus. Provide title, URL or citation, and statement of what was learned.)
Integrating Media Literacy in Social Studies Teacher
Education by Meghan Mantra and Casey Holmes from North
Carolina State University
https://citejournal.org/volume-20/issue-1-20/social-
studies/integrating-media-literacy-in-social-studies-teacher-
education/ ehlbach, Hunter. 2011. Making social studies social: Engaging students through different forms of social
perspective taking. Theory into Practice 50, no. 4: 300-310.
This article discusses the importance of making sure that http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:5372034
social studies teachers are provided with education on media
literacy. The authors state that teachers must improve their
skills of navigating online sources and social media in order to This article focuses on how teachers can promote student engagement in the social studies classroom.
teach students how to be ethical and socially responsible when There is an example given of two students, one that does not like social studies and finds it unimportant
they are using the internet. This applies to my project because and another that does their work. The author discusses how some students thrive in group projects and
the seminar promises to provide teachers with apps and collaborative work and how some students prefer to work alone and despise projects or assignments that
websites to be used in the classroom. It will be important for require them to collaborate with classmates. It is stated that is best to promote perspective taking in the
myself and my colleagues to be able to analyze these apps and classroom and to try to balance individual work with assignments that all them to work with others. The
websites for ourselves before having our students use them. It assignments in which students get to investigate their own perspective on the topic tend to be the most
is also important to teach students how to effectively engaging for students, no matter the delivery. I am interested to see if elements of this article are similar
investigate all information they come across online, whether it to the PD I will attend. The focus of the PD is on how to promote engagement in the classroom.
is for academic or personal use. Using technology is vital to
student engagement in 2020, but students must know how to
use it appropriately and how to monitor the quality of
information they are receiving from online sources.

Colleagues (Summarize how two colleagues have addressed similar leadership roles OR the status of the issue at department/school/district level.)
The art teacher at my school, Ms. Jung, has led a PD about
Mrs. Bristow has held numerous PD sessions for all staff at our school site on resources for the SpED
using art in the classroom at our Magnolia wide PD Days in
population. She has provided us with strategies to use when working with students with special needs
the summer. All 10 of our charter schools come together in
as well as resources that we can use for accommodations. She does a fantastic job of showing all staff
the summer for PD and she held a session about how all
the current research on various topics and how we can improve the teaching in our classrooms.
teachers can use arts or elements of art in the classroom.
Section 5: Results and Reflection
Initial Revised
CSTP Element Evidence/Rational for Rating Suggestions for Moving Forward
Rating Rating
Promoting critical To move to INNOVATING level: Consider how to
thinking through Teacher asked questions of analysis and evaluation. increase complexity of task beyond a single lesson so
T – Applying T – Integrating
1.5 inquiry, problem Students answered questions that included all levels of Bloom’s. Students created their that there are continuing opportunities for students to
S – Exploring S - Integrating
solving, and own math problems. engage in inquiry in complex problem. How could you
reflection extend lesson into PBL?

6.2 Establish T- T- I have been able to set professional goals and To move to the innovating
professional
Applying Integrating meet them. This year I have participated in PD level I will need to do a lot
goals and
engaging in . opportunities provided to me and sought out by more self-guided research. I
continuous myself. This is something I had not previously engage with research
and done. I have also taken on leadership roles presented to me and use that
purposeful
when available. I led multiple grade level to fuel my instruction but
professional
growth and meetings. given my schedule and being
development. very busy I don’t often set
aside enough time to do this
on my own which is a goal of
mine. I also would like to join a
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Collaborate
with
colleagues and
the broader
professional T-
6.3 community to
Applying
support
teacher and
student
learning.
Special Emphasis (Teacher Leader Model Standards or NBPTS Core Propositions
Key Learnings and New Skills/Knowledge
Developed by Teacher
I attended a PD to learn new strategies to use
in the Social Studies setting. I learned strategies
for teaching literacy as well as content-delivery
and inquired based learning strategies. Overall I
feel that I walked away with many new
activities and strategies that I can implement in
my classroom whether in person or digital.
Directions: The Mentor should Identify strengths and areas of improvement in each of the following areas.
Effectiveness of resources designed by Candidate, including
presentation, notes, handouts, and other resources.
Effectiveness of Candidate in teaching and coaching adults.
(Refer to Adult Learning Principles in FOTIP Handbook
[https://www.fotip.org/adult-learning-theory.html].
Value of topic for audience.
Overall delivery by Candidate of the professional
development experience, including audience engagement,
pacing, tone, and response to questions.
Directions: Record assessment data into Assessment Data Table (see end of document). Include copies of assessment tool with submission. Include at least one graph in your summary.
Individualized Learning Plan, Fullerton Online Teacher Induction Program (FOTIP), 2017
professional organization if
possible to collaborate with
other teachers and gain
resources to use in my
classroom.
To move to the innovating
I have collaborated with my colleagues more
level I would need to take on
this year than ever before. When we were at
more of a leadership role. I
school I attended weekly meetings and met with
collaborate with colleagues
my mentor often. During distance learning I
but I don’t often facilitate it.
attend three meetings a week and work with
T- My hope is to eventually lead a
the colleagues on a daily basis to plan and
Integrating PD at one of our school wide
support our students. My TLP project allowed
PD days. During these days all
me to provide my department with strategies to
ten of our sites get together
use in the classroom or for distance learning.
and teachers lead PDs. I can
This was my first time leading something within
always submit a proposal and
my department.
lead one when I am ready.
Contribution to
Product(s) Generated
Others/Department/School/District
I created a presentation based on what I I was able to teach new strategies to
learned at the PD. In this presentation I teachers in my department. This is
taught my department three literacy helpful as now everyone will have
strategies, one content delivery strategy new strategies to use in the
and one inquiry based learning strategy. classroom or for distance learning.
Mentor Feedback
Presentation was easy to follow and Miss Brown was very clear. The presentation
was given digitally but the handouts and notes were sent to me before the
presentation. Everything was easy to follow. The notes could be slightly more
descriptive. The google form(assessment) was a good tool to use given that the
presentation was given digitally. An area for improvement would be that Miss
Brown could have sent over copies of the activities/strategies she discussed. For
some she showed a graphic organizer but could have also made that into a
handout and sent it to staff.
Miss Brown chose an important topic and delivered the presentation well. She
was effective in teaching adults as she provided the resources ahead of time and
made sure to pause for discussion throughout. I believe the presentation would
have been more effective in person but that was not an option at this time.
This topic was very valuable for the Social Studies department. At our school we
teach k-12. This presentation was given to the Social Studies teachers that teach
grades 6-12. The strategies presented would be useful for all secondary grades
and can be adapted to different subject areas.
Miss Brown was clear in her presentation. She did a good job at explaining the
information on the slides. The pacing and tone were appropriate for the audience
and purpose.
Analysis and Summary of Audience Assessment
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 Overall, the teachers rated my presentation positively. It was shown that I delivered the presentation well and that the topic was
helpful to them. At the end I had them say which strategy was the most helpful to learn about. The highest rated was my content
delivery strategy (Flipgrid). Given that we are doing distance learning this was the most applicable strategy for them to use currently.

Action Items (some may not be applicable)

For curriculum design,
I will start using the strategies I learned at the PD in my lessons. Some were assessments as well. I plan on
lesson planning, assessment
planning incorporating as many new strategies as makes sense in my classes.
Right now we are doing distance learning. In general I would like to shift to more inquiry based learning
For classroom practice
practices when possible. I will use the strategies I learned to shift to this style of teaching.
For teaching English
learners, students with
The strategies I learned(especially literacy strategies) are extremely helpful for English learners and students
special needs, and students
with other instructional with special needs. I can use some strategies as a form of accommodation when necessary.
challenges
For future professional
development
My goal is to attend one PD (outside of my school held PDs) per year.
For supporting
I would like to take on more of a leadership role within my department and school in general. I would like to
others/department/
school/district try to work towards being grade level chair in the next two years if that is possible.

Other N/A
Other Notes and Comments

Overall I feel that this project was helpful to myself and my colleagues. I learned a lot of new things that I can use in my classroom and
pushed myself to present to my department.

Include copy of Google Survey Form assessment tool.

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