Individualized Professional Development Plan

NAME: Molley Wilkins MAJOR: Elementary Education

MINOR: Special Education

WHY are you pursuing this degree?

I have grown up in the same school environment my whole life. I was surrounded by teachers my whole life
who were family friends, my godmother, and my brother's best friend's parents. I was always surrounded by teachers
who cared about me whether I was in school or out of school and I think that is a huge part of why I want to pursue
this degree. I have also worked in a daycare and nursery and that made me so confident on wanting to be an
elementary education teacher. I love the age of these kids and I love the idea of teaching kids who want to learn at
that age. I want to help students learn but most importantly have fun while learning.

WHAT do you want the outcome to be?

I want to develop a positive relationship with all my students and be a helper for them whether it is in school
or out of school. I also want to have a classroom that is welcoming and easy to focus on and understand what is
being taught. I want to make it a comfortable environment for my future students and for them to feel safe. My
outcome will be that I will teach at my best and make my students feel safe while also learning in many different
ways. They will learn with games, projects, readings, art, small group, and building relationships. I want my students
to love what they are learning, and I will make that possible.

HOW are you going to work toward making that outcome possible?
I will work to be the best educator I can be. I will show my true self and focus on making my future students
learn the best they can. I will learn from my classes to make this outcome possible. I will remember what I learn and
use it with my future students.

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

Next
Semester ● Rushing for Greek Life.
● Finish school with good grades.
● Work more to pay for my education.
● Be open to more organization and
being more involved.
● Make my portfolio better and enhance
it.
● Work and engage with children more.
● Be more involved with education.
● Get another job that involves children
closer to Butler.
 Next year
● Be in Greek Life. ● Improve my management.
● Help with organizations and joining ● Adjust my mindset on school.
Cru. ● Improve grades.
● Grow my relationship with religion. ● Learn a new skill for future teaching.
● Work harder in school and out of
school.

Individual Professional Development Plan

Template
Assets and Provocations

Planned Activities Objective of Alignment to Vision, How activity impacts student

Development Activity Mission, Core Values, learning
Major, or Minor

Required
knowledge/skills ● Read more books ● Learn more ● Use the skills that ● Understanding
and articles that will about how to I learned in class students' different
Consider:
help me in teach and with my future relationships and how
education. develop better students. they focus in different
● required
● Be in different teaching skills. ● Understand the ways due to their
competencies
activities that will ● Share my different cultures and
: like COE
also help my future knowledge and relationships of backgrounds.
Core Value
students learn and assessment people and how ● My values will help the
Proficiencies,
engage in the right with others. they were taught students learn in
Professional
ways. or raised with different ways because
Standards for
different cultures. every student wants to
your content or
learn differently.
licensure.
Assets/Strengths
● Go to activities that ● Find out what ● Understanding ● Be more positive so it
Consider
I am interested in, my top my strengths and can make my future
that will help with strengths are using them in my students more positive
● your views
my learning and and use them in classroom for in their normal life and
● recent
teaching. my future. teaching. in school.
assessments
● Knowing what I like ● Go to different ● Be happy and ● Use other people's
● other people’s
to learn and organizations use my values for views to help have
views
listening to other and listen to my future different activities in my
people's views. them and classroom. future classroom and
develop more my own personal
skills and learn views.
about my
strengths.

Provocations/Growth
● Go to activities that ● Learn more ● Use my Mission ● Using different styles of
Consider:
help grasp my about my and Values from teaching and
knowledge and knowledge and COE to help understanding the
● gaps in
expand on my skills that will grasp my diversity within the
knowledge/skill
skills. help me and knowledge and classroom.
s
● Go to workshops what I am skills for my ● Being able to teach
● opportunities
and speakers who interested in. classroom and students with different
on the horizon
will help me open ● Learn how students. core values or abilities.
● what specific
my horizon. workshops and ● Use my Values
actions will
speakers will and use my skills
help you to
broaden my to value my idea
progress in
horizon and of teaching and
your role?
open my mind how to properly
up to my future do it with different
classroom. methods and
styles.

Individual Professional Development Plan Activity

Log

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