Professional Development Plan
What key skills are needed for What skills do you need to
What are your specific goals?
The specific goal would be to accept
ambiguity. Specifically I will be able
to accept that in cross cultural
situations there can be uncertainty. It
is important that I specifically don’t
respond to quick and need to be more
informed.
Become more knowledgeable of the
areas of culture that there are gaps.
Specifically learning about cultures, I
am unaware of.
Understanding the specific identities
that people have.
What actions are you going to take?
each goal?
- Understanding of different
culture norms
- Becoming flexible with
families cultures that are not
like mine,
- Find ways to listen rather
than reacting.
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- Being aware of more cultures
- Understand information that
is misleading or a
misconception
- about different cultures.
- Understanding that students
are more than just one
identity and have multiple
different things that
contribute to them.
- Understand more than just
race, understand religion,
social class, and sexuality.
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develop?
- Flexibility - Gain more information on my
- Understanding students and their culture.
- Listen Understand and become informed of
- the different culture difference
between my culture and my students’
culture.
- Become more flexible
- Knowledge of other language - Go to events around my community
- Open about new information that celebrates and sheds light onto
- Understanding the awareness different cultures.
- Do my own research and reading
- Ask questions to become more
knowledgeable about cultures I am
unaware of.
- Learn - Listen to people about their identity.
- Grow - Be aware of the different aspects of
- Understand each student might have.
- Have students take surveys about
themselves so I am aware of the
different identities they hold.