Individualized Professional Development Plan

Name: Major:

Mia Myers Elementary Education

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: Not only do I want to teach children the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their future

education and life, but I also want to teach self-confidence and social/emotional skills to early childhood

students. I also want to teach to make a difference in children’s lives and make waves in the field of education;

I feel a responsibility to use my knowledge of culturally responsive and trauma-informed teaching to leave

a lasting impact on young people and to make education more cultural and trauma focused.

What: I hope to teach students to be proud of themselves and of their skills, talents, ideas, and creativity.
I want to provide an inclusive environment and safe space for sharing and learning for my students. The

children in my classroom should be able to trust me and feel as though school is a second home; I want

my experience with them to push them in a positive direction for the rest of their young lives.
How: I will use my education classes and other opportunities/experiences at Butler and in the

community to develop my own social/emotional skills and to add to my toolkit in order to best

serve students in a caring, inclusive, and effective way. I will continue to educate myself about the

most informed and researched strategies and practices in my field, and further, I will use that

knowledge to individualize curriculum and activities according to each one of my students.

TIMEFRAME Personal goals: Professional goals:

(e.g. Positional goals, membership to (e.g. Gaining further skills, advancing

organizations, exploring opportunities, etc) knowledge is specific areas, Memberships
in Professional Associations etc)

Next Semester Join Stencil Substitute in my hometown

Take ED 491 and 498 Find opportunities to work with all types of
students in the Indy area
Continue to participate in intramural sports
Explore different school options and learn
Join College Mentors more about school cultures in Indiana
Spend more time reading Join Best Buddies

Next year Run for student office Volunteer to help with after school activities in
surrounding elementary schools in Indy
Run for president or leadership role of a club
Take a role or leadership position in SEA
Take more education classes to learn and develop
skill Volunteer at Riley Hospital and interview
education staff
 Individual Professional Development Plan Template
Assets and Provocations
Planned Activities Objective of Alignment to How activity impacts
Development Vision, Mission, student learning
Activity Core Values,
Major, or Minor

Required
knowledge/skills • Read two o Understand o I’ll learn to o I will become a
“Trauma- how trauma become an more educated,
Consider:
informed can affect inclusive experienced, and
● required teaching” behavior and collaborator prepared educator
competencies: books self-esteem and agent of
like COE Core change
Value
Proficiencies, o I will have the
Professional o I will be able background in
• Watch TED
Standards for o Learn to apply types of teaching
your content or Talks/do theory and and reacting that
strategies of
licensure, research on research will allow me to
SEL and be
Social into practice address situations
equipped to
Emotional with my with care and
handle
Learning knowledge calmness and offer
situations if I
volunteer in students a safe
school space at school.
programs

• Volunteer in o I will understand

• Working o I want to what effects
elementary
schools/ alongside real gain administration
“accessible, decisions will have
 • shadow teachers and meaningful, on students, and
administrators administrators and thus will help to
expansive” shape curriculum
to gain insight preparation and work to make
and in order to decisions that are
prepare for best for students.
knowledge
my future
about the career.
elementary
school system

Assets/ o Continuously o Further o Being o This will help me

work on E- prepare for prepared for build a foundation
Strengths portfolio and my future future and find schools
education career and classes and that I will best fit
Consider: projects better my graduating into; I will use my
● your views understanding with an portfolio to refine
of my teacher Elementary my teacher identity
● recent
identity Education and shape it to best
assessments
Major benefit my future
● other people’s students.
views
o Discover more o Refine those • Finding o Understanding and
of my strengths and opportunitie refining my
strengths use them to s for strengths will help
find other teaching, me find meaningful
opportunities I learning, activities for my
would thrive in and classrooms that I
mentoring would be best at
facilitating. I would
also be able to
share those
strengths, which
will encourage my
students to find
theirs too.
 o More in- o Gain o I will be a o I will be ready to
person experience Butler handle a substitute
Provocations/ experience and add tools prepared teaching role
with young to my Educator o Time management
Growth
students teaching will give me
Consider: toolkit o I will create enough
an inclusive time/energy to offer
● gaps in o Attend time environment my student
knowledge/skills management o Learn how to o I will be able to
● opportunities on and social manage o I can apply social
the horizon emotional homework, collaborate emotional learning
● what specific learning extracurricular with my techniques in the
actions will help workshops s, social life, peers and classroom to best
you to progress in and self-care share with help my students
your role? them what I
have
learned
from
experiences
and
workshops
 Individual Professional Development Plan Activity Log
(1)
Description of professional development
activity completed
1. Volunteering at an Elementary
‘Summer School’ Program for
Reading
2. Library Summer Reading
Program
3. Freedom Baptist Church
Sunday School for young
children (ages 4-12)
4. PATINS training session
5. Weekly practicum at Nora
Elementary
Total PD Hours
(2) (3)
Timeframe Connection to your stated objective
June 2021- July 2021 This experience taught me the role of a teacher,
7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. their responsibilities, and the strategies they use to
teach and manage students. It helped me build my
teacher identity and find my strengths as a
potential educator.
May 24-28 This helped me learn reading techniques with
8 a.m- 1 p.m children and time management skills for our
activities. I also helped with planning artistic
activities and used my art education skills.
May 9-August 14 This gave me small group and teaching experience
10:45-11:15 a.m. with the age group I am most interested in working
with.
November 2 My PATINS training taught me so many new,
9:30 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. useful tools for classrooms, as well as information
about different disabilities and accommodations.
This training and these tools will lead me to create
a safer and more inclusive classroom for my future
students.
February – March 2022 This experience of working with 5th graders on
their math skills allowed me to explore a grade
level and subject I was not very familiar with, and
it gave me great insight into the duties of a teacher
and student-teacher. I learned how to lesson plan
and individualize my curriculum.
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