Individualized Professional Development Plan

Name Major:

Abby Martin Exploratory

Start with your WHY: Why are you pursuing this degree? What do you want the outcome to be? How are you
going to work toward making that outcome possible? **Is the outcome directly related to your WHY?
WHY: I’m currently in Exploratory to see what the best fit for me is by trying out different classes that interests me.

What: The outcome I’m hoping to get from trying all of these classes is to finally declare a major in something.

How: I’m going to continue to try new classes based on my own interest to see what the best fit for me is and see if I can

picture myself doing this for the rest of my life.

TIMEFRAME Personal goals: Professional goals:

(e.g. Positional goals, membership to organizations, (e.g. Gaining further skills, advancing knowledge is specific
exploring opportunities, etc) areas, Memberships in Professional Associations etc)

This Semester - Put myself out there more - Find out what my interests are
- Focus on my health/mental health - Find out what makes me happy (classes)
(select at least one - Put in the time to find out more about myself
item)

Next Semester - Explore self-care - Continue to explore my options with classes

- Meet people in my classes - Knock out core classes
- Join more clubs

Next year - Get an on-campus job - Declare a major

- Explore my interests - Maintain good grades
- Gain new hobby - Build relationships with professors
 Individual Professional Development Plan Template
Assets and Provocations
Planned Activities Objective of Alignment to Vision, How activity impacts
Development Activity Mission, Core Values, student learning
Major, or Minor

Required
knowledge/skills
Read interest-based Figure out what path is the Appreciation for myself in I will be able to apply this to
Consider: books that help me to right one for me to take to building confidence in what my future and learn how to
follow a life path and further my educational I want to do in my life know what is right for me
●required accumulate goals career
competencies: like
COE Core Value
Proficiencies, Appreciation for This will help me to learn more
Professional Meet with department To be able to declare my knowledge in other classes about a specific subject and
Standards for your heads to discuss major and put myself on a as well as strengthening hopefully give myself an idea
content or licensure, classes that interest strict path my knowledge in my major of what I want to do for the
me rest of my life

Assets/Strengths Write a weekly To make myself appreciate Strength of appreciation of I will be happier finding little
reflection each week every aspect of my day diversity of thought things that stuck with me
Consider: on one topic that I and to try to learn throughout the week
●your views found resonated with something new or open my
me throughout the eyes to something I
●recent assessments
week haven’t before
●other people’s views

Try to read a new book To expand my knowledge
when I have the time to of things outside of my
personal strengths and
insights
Appreciation for
knowledge and strength of
integrity and responsibility
This will help me to learn
about things even if I don’t
want to. I can apply this later
in life when I must do
something that is slightly off
my planned path.

Provocations/Growth Help kids with summer Gain more experience with Excitement of teaching, I will be able to be around kids
school that I am teaching and taking care of learning, and mentoring which is something that I love
Consider: babysitting this young kids of different doing. I’ll be able to help them
●gaps in summer ages with school work and educate
knowledge/skills and learn from them
●opportunities on the
horizon Volunteer at a hospital Diving into a subject that Strength of integrity and
with a physical really interests me and responsibility I will be able to see something
●what specific actions
will help you to therapist seeing first-hand what the I’m interested in in action. I will
progress in your role? job would be like see if this is something that I
end up majoring in.

Individual Professional Development Plan Activity Log

(1) (2) (3)

Description of professional development activity Timeframe
completed Connection to your stated objective

1. Workout class February 11th Focusing more on myself and my health

 5:30-6:30

2. Go Climbing January 2021– April 2021 Gained a new hobby

3. PCA meeting with teacher March 16th Getting good grades

6:40 – 7:10

4. Tutor February 2021 – March 2021 Maintain my grades and better myself

5. TI, PCA, SW January 2021 – May 2021 Knocked out core classes

Total PD Hours
Notes:

1. Why, What, How

• Why: A statement of why you are in the major or in the class.
• What: A statement of what you want to get out of the major or the class.
• How: A statement of your part in achieving your outcome (you could choose one thing or just make a general statement).
II. Time Frame
Personal Goals: Could involve self-care, wellness, discipline, self-acceptance, or anything else that is outside of the realm of the professional.
Professional Goals: Goals related to what you see as your major, your future profession, or to help you figure out what those might be.
Note: You list short term goals (this semester), midrange goals (next semester), and longer-term goals (next year).
Be specific, particularly with personal goals.
Less is more.
III. Plan Template
• You re-list all the activities from the Time Frame table (Planned Activities),
• And add the following (first column):
Knowledge you might need to accomplish each goal
Strengths you will bring to each goal
Growth: Ways you need to grow for each goal.
• And also:
• The objective for each of your planned activities (column 2)
• How each planned activity connects to your major, your future profession, or to helping you figure out what those might be (column 3).
• How each planned activity connects to your coursework or personal learning (last column). If some or all feel like a repeat of something you
have already said then just refer us to another part of the table (“see column 3”, for example).
IV. Activity Log
• Here is where you record each planned activity: What you did, when you did it and how it connects to the goal you stated.

Check-in: March 19th

Due: April 14th