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Annual Professional Growth Plan Framework

Name: Rick Simms

Year: 2021

Goal 1: To increase foundational knowledge and learn further application skills for applying
Foundational Knowledge about First Nations, Métis and Inuit to support student achievement by
engaging in collaborative, whole school approaches to capacity building in First Nations, Métis
and Inuit education.

Goal 2: To learn additional strategies to integrate and embed assessment strategies into everyday
learning that provide a variety of methods through which students can demonstrate their
achievement of the learning outcomes.

Teaching Quality Standard or School Leader Competency Reference:

Goal 1 = TQS #5 Applying Foundational Knowledge about First Nations, Métis and Inuit

Goal 2 = TQS #3 Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge

Plan:
 Goal 1 – Attend Professional Development seminars hosted by The Alberta Teachers’
Association and The Teachers Convention
 Goal 1 – Seek connections with Indigenous Educators and/or Elders from other Schools to
share application practices for non-Indigenous students
 Goal 2 - Engage and collaborate with mentor and team teachers to inquire and share best
assessment practices
 Goal 2 – Attend Professional Development Seminars hosted by The Alberta Teachers’
Association
 Goal 1 and 2 – Conduct personal internet research to add further ideas and strategies to my
emerging teaching practice

Timelines:
 Registration is currently completed for The Teachers’ Convention on February 18 and 19
2021 for attendance to the aforementioned seminar topics
 Ongoing engagement and collaboration with team teachers throughout the school year.
Formal team meetings to be proposed on a bi-weekly basis for targeted collaboration and
sharing of best practices.
 Continuous scheduled weekly self-research blocks for conducting personal internet
research

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Resources:
 The Alberta Teachers Association online database
 Annual ATA sponsored Teachers Convention – February 18 and 19 2021
 Mentor and Team Teachers
 Indigenous Educators and potential invited Elders
 Learnalberta.ca - links to print and media resources and materials aligned to Alberta
Education curriculum

Expected Results:
 Indicators:
o Increased confidence when utilizing learned content from Professional
Development seminars.
o New relationships with Indigenous scholars and/or Elders who desire to share
knowledge
o Increased student engagement with Indigenous content
o Improved student assessment records and student achievement

 Data collected:
o Reflective writing to synthesize research results and how I can apply the new
knowledge to my daily practice.
o Self-assessments that provides insight into professional growth
o Certificate of completion from Professional Development Seminars
o Research Summaries of personal internet research
o Team meeting minutes/notes

Reflections:
 To be determined upon completed attendance of Professional Development Seminars
utilizing The Alberta Teachers Association “Reflection on PD activity” document
(Retrieved from:
https://www.teachers.ab.ca/For%20Members/ProfessionalGrowth/Section%203/Pages/M
eaningful%20Measures.aspx

Next steps:
 Continuous reflect, review and amend. Initiate a designerly based framework of constant
ideation and recursive investigation for a constant growth mindset with the goal of career
and life-long learning.
 Create new goals and Investigate new strategies to be added to the following timetable.
 Seek critical feedback from colleagues and administration
o Visit and monitor classroom and teaching activities with the mindset of
continuous improvement and career-long learning.

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