Individualized Professional Development Plan

Name: Major:

Mckenna Modisher Middle/Secondary Ed with a concentration in math

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 this degree because of my dad. My dad has always been someone I have looked up to and
seeing everyone that he has helped throughout his career has inspired me. Also, in my fourth-grade class, my
teacher was so confused with this math assignment and had me teach it to the class because I understood it
completely. From that moment, I had known that I wanted to become a math teacher.

What: I want to see my students succeed and grow while they are in and beyond my classroom. I want to be
someone that my students look up to and want to be like when they are older.

How: I am going to work extremely hard to become the best teacher I can be and to do that are going to help me

become that best teacher.

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 Semester Get more than 1 BCR credit by the end of the year. Complete all my math classes I have planned right now.

Participate in more intermural sports. Learn some more different tools I can add to my toolbelt.
 Next year Gain more close friendships then what I have right now. Reach out to some of the teachers in my hometown to see if I
could shadow them when I come home.
Have a good relationship with my buddy.

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 Attend NCTM meetings It will help me get more This will help me learn It can help me with my mental
knowledge/skills connected with people that more about being a math help because I could talk to
Attend CEC meetings? have the same major as teacher. people that are older than me
Consider: me. to get advice about what is to
Diversity come.
● required CEC meetings can help
competencies: like with me with being able to This can help me with meet
COE Core Value
handle certain new people while also
Proficiencies,
Professional circumstances. learning about certain things I
Standards for your don’t know much about.
content or licensure,

Assets/Strengths Figure out where my Become better in those Get excited about teaching I will be better at the subjects
strengths are in math. areas that I am already and learning. and be able to help my
Consider: What math am I best best at while also students with the things that I
at? becoming better in the Gain knowledge about am good at.
● your views different ways to use
areas I am struggling in.
● recent assessments Work hard in my math technology I have to I can learn things on the way
● other people’s views class to end with a Help with perseverance succeed with other things. that I could teach my students
better grade then what when it comes to work. one day about perseverance
I have. and working hard at
something.
Provocations/Growth Go to math lab to get This will help me pass the Helps me gain more It will help with my learning.
help on the things I am class so I can proceed information which will help
Consider: learning in calc. onto high math classes. with my major
● gaps in Study abroad Gain more information It would help me get a
knowledge/skills about math in different different perspective on
● opportunities on the countries. Diversity different countries.
horizon
● what specific actions
will help you to
progress in your role?

Individual Professional Development Plan Activity Log

(1) (2) (3)

Description of professional development activity Timeframe Connection to your stated objective
completed
1. NTCM meeting 11/3 7-8pm 1 hour A professor talked about her journey, and I got to know more about
I went to this meeting, and she talked different ways to get into a secondary ed math classroom.
about her research.
2. Rockford BAC Summer Care June-August 2022 I was able to get a view of working with younger children. I also
I worked with children throughout the Monday-Friday 6:45am-1:00pm got to work on classroom management when I was in the classroom
summer doing fun activities with them. 270 hours with the children alone.
3. Pike High school Individual 11/16 1-3pm 2 hours I was able to get another view in a classroom and learn more about
teaching.
4.

5.

Total PD Hours