Individualized Professional Development Plan

Name (Tentative) Major and/or Minor:

Ryann Bahnline English Literature, double major in Middle/Secondary education

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? (Double check: Is the outcome directly related to your WHY?)

WHY:

I am pursuing this degree because I have always had such incredible educators as a student. I want to be the type of teacher that not

only helps grow my students academically, but socially and emotionally as well. I want our conversations to not only revolve around the

content and the standards, but the real world and issues that my students are actively facing. I want to be the educator who my students feel

like they grow in every facet of their lives, not only the small portion that directly correlates with education. There are so many important

lessons that are in literature that it turns into an interdisciplinary area of study and does not simply focus on reading and writing. I want my

students to see this and be the incredible educator that I had as a student for my future students.

What:

I have an end goal of teaching middle/secondary education with an English degree. I want to work in an environment in which

lessons can be centered around discussion and conversations rather than strict structured plans and lectures. I want to structure my class in

which I learn just as much as they do. To do this, a relationship between instructor and student is needed. I hope to form healthy

relationships with students and make them feel safe and supported in my classroom, this way they feel as if they can share what is on their

mind. I want to implement Social Emotional Learning and culturally responsive teaching into my classroom to do this. Students will feel safe

and comfortable in my classroom, and this can occur both when they share and contribute ideas to the lesson, but also if they share and

contribute ideas about their mental health. My classroom will be an open space for all students to express what they need to succeed.

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How:

I will be developing the way in which I can cultivate this environment in my classroom and learn how to create relationships with

students. I will become the truest version of myself; therefore, I can show students who I truly am and gain their trust by being honest. I plan

on continuing to analyze different theories regarding learning to best accommodate my students in whatever stage they are in. By pushing

myself out of my comfort zone, I can be better prepared for when a day in my classroom does not go to plan.

Try to be as specific as you can.

TIMEFRAME Personal goals: Professional goals:

(e.g. Positional goals, membership to organizations, (e.g. Gaining further skills, advancing knowledge is specific
exploring opportunities, etc.) areas, memberships in professional associations,
internship, voluntary work, etc.)

Next Semester - Continue growing as a leader in Sorority life
- Continue growing as a leader in Kappa Delta Pi and
plan professional growth opportunities
- Plan for Student teaching and EDTPA
- Continue working on thesis and begin seeking out
conference opportunities
Next Year - Become active in KDP and provide insight to younger
members about student teaching
- Have organized EDTPA materials and stay on top of
deadlines
- Have a successful student teaching semester
- Grow relationships with school districts and student
teaching opportunities
- Find Conference opportunities for education or teachers
- Find conference opportunities for English
- Continue to tutor in local high school
- Begin developing College application help/tutor
business

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 Fall 2024 Individual Professional Development Plan
Assets and Provocations
Planned Activities
Knowledge/skills that (To gain the knowledge, I plan to
I will gain do…, at least 2 activities for each)
(Type here)
1: increase my analysis 1) I will read and annotate
skills more novels and keeps
notes
2: better understand
how to facilitate 2) I will watch more videos
discussions and read more articles on
other people’s analysis
such as crash course and
journal articles to
enhance this ability
1) I will talk with professors
and analyze how they are
Consider: able to control a discussion
● required 2) I will watch videos on
competencies:
YouTube of discussions
Professional
and keep track of what
Standards for your works and what does not
major/minor
3) I will discuss with my
mentor teachers and take
notes about what
strategies they use to
facilitate discussions
Objective of Each Activity
1) The objective of this
activity is to make myself
more familiar with
annotating and more
proficient at it
2) By watching other
people’s analyses of a
novel, it can further my
personal understanding
of the novel, but also
expose me to other
interpretations.
4) By talking to professors, I
can get an honest opinion
on what works and what
does not work when
facilitating a conversation
5) When I watch YouTube
videos of discussions, I can
judge for myself and begin
to create an identity of what
is effective and not as a
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How activity impacts your
learning
1) I will have a better
understanding of how to
accurately analyze a novel
and how to teach students
how to do that as well
2) I will have a more diverse
understanding of a novel,
which then helps me accept
different understandings
and viewpoints that will
inevitably come from my
students with other
backgrounds.
3) I can form connections with
professors and begin to
understand what I need to do
as a facilitator
4) I will know what works and
what does not work for my
classroom, therefore
becoming more prepared
when things go wrong in
the future. I will better
 facilitator. understand how to control
these misunderstandings.

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 Assets/Strengths (To develop the strengths, I plan to
do XXX, at least 2 for each)
(Type here)
My strengths are strong - I will take on more work beyond
ability to analyze, good - Continue to grow as a leader - Help me take on other simply being a student, and start
writing skills, strong in clubs and organizations responsibilities outside of to get more leadership experience
comprehension
- Push myself out of my being a student that will help me when I transition
comfort zone in classes and - Find new sides to myself that I into being a teacher and being in a
in professional opportunities was not familiar with before, huge leadership position
(publishing and public curating a solid educator
identity. - When I get comfortable with who
conferences) I am and complacent in what I am
doing, I am not growing,
therefore when I move into higher
- Help me stay organized in the level classes, I am not prepared
I need strengths in: - Develop a better organizational transition from paper to for the rigor of the class.
system on my computer technology, especially in an
- Develop a strategy for classes English field - This will help me keep my classes
so I am evenly distributing straight, especially with required
work - Keep myself afloat so I am readings, I can have the physical
1) Leadership never drowning too much in readings in the book, while
my work, especially with having notes or annotations in the
2) Organization EDTPA and honors thesis computer.
work
- When I am taking up most of 17
Consider your views: credits, it is easy to get
overwhelmed, so having a system
will help me stay afloat. Having
certain days for certain classes
● your recent helps make that manageable.
assessments
● other
people’s
views

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 Professional Growth
(3-4 specific actions I will take in
Spring 2023)
Consider:
● gaps in - Read outside of material that is - have knowledge on growing - Enter my classroom with specific
given in class theories and watch them and new knowledge that other
knowledge/skills
- Take specific notes and develop into the time period teachers might not have, Gives an
analysis on lessons that I will be teaching opportunity to lead
- Find ways to test and - Be able to have understanding - Will be better rounded in
implement strategies that I find in my own terms rather than concepts to explain in a way that
opportunities on the just a textbook definition, is applicable to my classroom, not
horizon therefore will be easier to just random theories I have
implement memorized
● what specific - I can figure out what works - I will have foundations for what I
actions will help and what does not for me and like and what works versus what I
you to progress in my classroom do not like and what doesn’t work
your role?
●

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Alignment to Vision,
Mission,
Commitments, Major,
or Minor

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