Individualized Professional Development Plan

Name : Lauren Geerts Major: Elementary Education, Minor in Diverse Learners

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 have always wanted a career in helping people. That career in mind was not always teaching, but I finally

decided that teaching children is what I really want to do. I have grown passionate for wanting to help children

both inside and outside of the classroom.

What: I want to become a teacher in order to help kids get to their full potential and educate those who are in

need. I want to work in a school that is less fortunate than the elementary school that I went to. I believe kids who

have lower income should also be getting a good education with well trained teachers.

How: I will start by getting experience in the field of childcare and educating. Graduating from Butler will ensure

me a good position in the field of teaching.

TIMEFRAME Personal goals: Professional goals:

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

Next Semester - Continue crocheting - Visit more schools to get more field experiences
- Maintain my club commitments - Get a job during the schoolyear, maybe at an
- Continue reading books aftercare program or something else working with
kids

Next year - Create goals for myself - Job at summer camp

- Continue going to therapy - Babysitting neighbors’ kids
- Focus on things that are not relating to technology - Finish up classes and prepare for student teaching
(Journaling, reading, going outside more)
 Individual Professional Development Plan Template
Assets and Provocations
Planned Activities
Required
knowledge/skills
Consider:
●required
competencies: like
COE Core Value
Proficiencies,
Professional
Standards for your
content or licensure,
Assets/Strengths
Consider:
●your views
●recent assessments
●other people’s views
Provocations/Growth
Consider:
Objective of Alignment to Vision, Mission, How activity impacts
Development Activity Core Values, Major, or Minor student learning
- Work at a kid’s - Gain skills dealing - Will help me know how to - Will show me a more
summer camp with children. How talk to kids and solve fun environment
to occupy them issues they may have rather than a learning
and how to talk one. Shows a
with them different side of kids
efficiently
- Observe a
classroom over - Will help me gain info on - Gives me ideas for
the summer - See how a real how I want to run my own my class in the
class
classroom really future.
runs!
- I want to use my - I would consider one of my - I will gain
voice to uplift own Core values as: experiences in a field
- Get involved with others and fighting for what you think that I have never
controversial support those who is right. I do not believe it really delved into
topics and may need the is right to say silent about thus far.
actually speaking help. something you really
up about them believe in.
and defending
my views when a
family member
says something
negative about it.
- Becoming more - The more I know about - Everything I read will
knowledgeable. things, the more I can contribute to my
- Read more Books are always learn about myself and learning. Whether it
●gaps in books good to improve others. Reading can also be factual
knowledge/skills the mind and help me teach kids to the knowledge, lessons,
●opportunities on the escape into best of my ability. Even or things I learn
horizon - Stay informed another world reading fiction stories about myself.
with the news - To not be ignorant helps broaden your - Learning about what
●what specific actions
will help you to and relevant on the real knowledge! is going on in the
progress in your role? topics problems going on - Knowing what is going on world can help me
in the world today can help me be build skills on staying
more sympathetic to my informed with my
students. I also want to students lives.
inform myself on what is
going on with those kids in
their day-to-day life.
 Individual Professional Development Plan Activity Log

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Description of professional development activity Timeframe Connection to your stated objective
completed
1. Once a week Helps me learn more about myself and build towards becoming the
Go to therapy best version of myself as possible. Also, with group therapy, I get to
hear different perspectives on one situation, which can help me
make decisions in my life.
2. At least a chapter every night Helps me learn lessons and is enjoyable for me. Gaining knowledge
Read more books before bed on many different topics. It is also calming. I like to do something
without technology before bed as it is better for your sleep.
3. Whenever I have the time to and I have mostly healed my relationship with exercise and no longer
Go to the gym feel motivated to do it because I feel that I have to. Now I go because I enjoy it and it
helps me become stronger and more confident.
4. At least weekly Helps me keep my relationships strong with the people who I do
Call my family and friends not get to see every day. Especially those who are friends across the
country at different schools.
5. Once a month at least Getting more involved with the arts and experiencing new forms of
Go to more concerts and recitals entertainment. It also brings me closer with my friends, since they
are often performing.
Total PD Hours