Individualized Professional Development Plan

Name: Tyler Ellis Major: Youth and Community Development: Sociology/Social Work

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 am pursuing YCD because of my passion for education but love of nontraditional classroom teaching opportunities and

psychology. I started this semester in English education because of my love of the relationship between language arts and the brain,

but now I am channeling that love into my sociology and social work studies.

What: I want to continue my studies in school psychology through graduate school, and involve myself in the community through

health education. My ideal career involves school counseling, sex education, crisis prevention, and mental health care.

How: I want to be better equipped to serve the youth in my community by studying the brain, diverse learning styles, and different

human experiences that I will see in my career.

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 - Become a Big Sister to a Tau Beta Sigma member - Learn more about social media management while
Semester - Apply for more scholarships within my major managing the Speaker’s Lab social media accounts
- Continue outreach to other service organizations in - Become hired past my seasonal status at the
Indiana universities Indianapolis Museum of Art

Next year - Keep my position as Tau Beta Sigma Guardian of - Facilitate Sexy, Can I? With Sexual Assault
the Sisterhood Response and Prevention for a second year
 - Research graduate school opportunities - Obtain a leadership position within the Butler
University Speaker’s Lab

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 - Green Dot - Learning more about - Aligns directly with - Helps students feel more in
knowledge/skills certification what content should be psychological and control of their body
taught and to what grade educational goals of
Consider: - Researching levels, experiencing other COE/YCD - Teaches students biology,
comprehensive sex ed teaching styles, learning relieves fear
● required
competencies: like - Mental health training from diverse voices - Assault prevention
COE Core Value and seminars
Proficiencies, - Mental health advocacy
Professional
Standards for your
content or licensure
Assets/Strengths - Documenting things I - Expanding upon and - Community involvement - My growing understanding
learn while tutoring in documenting current within Butler and striving and fluency with language will
Consider: the Lab knowledge for academic excellence allow me to communicate my
● your views content to students in the
- Attending more VWS - Meeting like-minded most concise and effective
● recent assessments events authors and writers way possible.
● other people’s views
- Attending writing
workshops/clubs
Provocations/Growth
Consider:
● gaps in
knowledge/skills
● opportunities on the
horizon
● What specific actions
will help you to
progress in your role?
- Meeting and - Hear from more - Connection to - I have a better grasp of what
interviewing more professionals, learn from community, examination of career would be the best fit,
educators in my them, and go forward with personal bias, love of ensuring that my students get
desired career a more diverse worldview learning the best help possible
and skillset
- Connecting with - Diverse students are more
Butler Residential Life understood and respected
Staff about their views
and strategies within
the Butler community
- Consume literature
from more diverse
voices

Individual Professional Development Plan Activity Log

(1) (2) (3)

Description of professional development activity Timeframe Connection to your stated objective
completed
1. Sexy, Can I? Facilitator Training 12/8/2022 Health education professional development

2. Speaker’s Lab Tutor Training Class Fall 2022 English education professional development and
individualized training
3. Speaker’s Lab Full Staff Training Fall 2022 English education professional development and group
brainstorming
4. Indianapolis Museum of Art PD October 2022 Career preparedness and conflict management professional
development
5. Early Move-In Service Week August 2022 School service, group work

Total PD Hours 50