Electronic Professional Development Plan

1. Electronic Professional Development Plan

2. Announcements • Please sign in. • You must register for the course to receive PAC. • PAC is valuable for advancing on the salary schedule.

3. In this workshop You will know: • When you should have your PDP written • WhatPDP is • Why to write a PDP • Howto write a PDP And you will begin to write your PDP.

4. Who writes a PDP? • Prior to August, 2004 = 6 credits or PDP • After August, 2004 (PI34)= PDP • On a Contract (Not Subbing) for at least 3 years

5. 5 year License Cycle

6. What is a PDP? • A description of your work • A goal for your professional growth that will impact student learning. • A multi-year plan for meeting the goal. • Evidence that the plan was completed. • Reflections on growth.

7. Why a Professional Development Plan (PDP)? • Job-embedded • Sustained effort • Verifiable professional growth • Demonstrated effect on student learning

8. Submit for approval • Initial Educators submit their goal and plan (Steps I & II) for approval after year 1 and the completed PDP during year 5 • Professional Educators submit the completed PDP during year 5 • MMSD will arrange for reviewers approve or return for revisions

9. Reviewers – must be approved by at least 2/3 • Initial Educators • Peer • Administrator • Institute of Higher Education Representative • Professional Educators • 3 Peers

10. Submit for Review • Completed PDPs are due January 15 of the final year of the plan. (the year the license expires) • MMSD has 5 review dates – • October • December • February • April • May

11. How to write a PDP • mmsd.org – staff only

12. Description of Work Situation • Set the context for reviewers. • View it as a time capsule. • All MMSD schools are urban.

13. Professional Development Plan • 1 Goal: Where do I want to go? • 2-3 Objectives: How do I get there? • Activities to accomplish the objectives and reach the goal.

14. Turn and talk. • What do you want to be different with your performance in 5 years? • If that happened, what would be different with your students? 

15. Writing the Goal I will ___________ (my professional learning and growth) so that ________________ (the impact of my learning on student growth.)

16. Rationale • What is happening now that makes you want to change? Refer to what you learned by your reflection. • Identify which 2 standards will promote your professional growth.

17. Plan for Assessing and Documenting your growth What can you collect that will show: • the changes you are making to growover time? • the effect your professional growth on student learning?

18. Possible evidence: • Lesson plan changes you have made • Video taken over time • Comparisons of your work over time • Student learning data • Behavioral data • Work samples • Rubrics

19. Plan to Meet the Goal • 1 Goal: Where do I want to go? • 2-3 Objectives: How do I get there? • increase your knowledge and skills • implement your new knowledge and skills • collect data, analyze, and make revisions

20. Plan to Meet the Goal • 1 Goal: Where do I want to go? • 2-3 Objectives: How do I get there? • Activities for each objective: What will I do to accomplish the objectives, so that I reach my goal? • Meet with a mentor. • Meet with accomplished people in education. • Shadow / observe others. • Complete a course. • Try a new approach and document the results. • Participate in readings, watch videos, search the web.

21. Timeline and Collaboration • Use specific dates over at least three years. • May be with peers, college or university representatives, a mentor, etc. • Meeting with a colleague to share notes, get ideas, or gather feedback; • Working with other educators on similar activities and objectives; • Conferencing with a colleague who can provide ongoing feedback.

22. Submit the plan • By January 1 of year 2 (for a 5-year plan) • By spring of year 1 (for a 3 or 4-year plan) • MMSD will arrange for reviewers to approve the plan or to return the plan for revisions.

23. Recapping: What is a PDP? • Reflection • A personalized plan for professional growth • Annual review • Documentation

24. Step I – Reflection: Preparing to write • First year of employment • Self-examination to improve professional practice. • Reflection on teaching standards • Analysis of relationship between student learning and professional practice. • Forms the foundation of the Plan.

25. Step II – Personalized Plan • Description of School Situation • Description of the professional growth goal: “I will ____ so that students will____.” • Rationale for the goal, teaching standards • Plan for assessing and documenting achievement of the goal • Plan to meet the goal

26. Step III: Annual Review of the PDP • Completion dates for objectives and activities. • Reflections of professional growth • Reflections of the impact of professional growth on student learning • Description of any substantial revisions made in the goal, objectives or activities.

27. Step IV: Final reflection and summary • Professional growth related to the standards • Effect of professional growth on student learning • Collaboration with others

28. Step IV: Documentation • 3-5 pieces of evidence • Collected throughout the licensing cycle. • Samples of work, surveys • Assessment data • Journal summaries • Curriculum adaptations • Summaries of mentor comments

29. Submit the completed plan • January 15, the year your license expires

30. Approval and License Renewal • PACs – you are eligible for up to 6. • LOG BACK IN and submit your verification form to DPI. • Download application form and send it with a check to DPI.