Rebecca Johnson

EED-480NB
Stephanie Holder
April 15, 2018

Personal Growth Plan

Complete the chart below to plan your professional development over the next 2-3 years. Be sure your goals are specific and
measureable.

Goal #1: Goal #2: Goal #3:

Rationale: Why did My first goal is to learn all the
you choose this goal? different aspects of the teacher’s
How do you expect it position and do them well. I chose
to improve the this goal because during my student
teaching, I saw that there is more than
outcomes of your
just planning lessons and teaching.
future students?
End Date: By when In accomplishing this goal, I expect to
do you expect to have this goal met by the end of my
accomplish this goal? first year of teaching.
Action Timeline: The steps that will be taken to
What steps will you complete this goal will be to be
take to complete this present at all teacher meetings before
goal, and by when the year starts and throughout.
Another step to be taken is talk with
will you take them?
co-workers, the principal, and the
Example: local board office to gather
1/31/18: Join AACTE knowledge and information of what is
My second goal is to become
completely knowledgeable on the
expected curriculum. I chose this goal
due to seeing how in depth the
curriculum is and how important it is
for the lessons to line up with, during
student teaching.
In accomplishing this goal, I expect
to have this goal met by the end of
my first year, and for it to progress
through and after the second year.
The steps that will be taken to
complete this goal will be to look up
the curriculum standards on the board
of education website and learn the
standards that will be needed for the
grade I will be teaching (Begin on
7/1/2018). Another step to take will to
discuss the curriculum with co-
Learn what methods work best and
are most effective in the classroom. I
chose this goal due to my experience
during student teaching and coming
across methods that did not work and
some that worked well.
I expect to accomplish this goal over
the first year of teaching and add to it
over the second year.
The steps that will be taken will be to
document and keep notes on what
methods worked and why they
worked. Another part of this will be
to talk with other teachers in the area
and my co-workers to see what
methods worked for them (Begin
8/15/2018).

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 expected and how to accomplish what
is expected.
Resources: What The resources available will be the
resources are handouts at the meetings and the
available to assist you counties website. These resources
in accomplishing your will aid in providing the extra
information needed to take the
goal?
appropriate steps in accomplishing
the goal.
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workers and plan on what curriculum
needs to be focused on (Begin on
8/15/208).
The resources that will be used will
be my laptop and the board of
education website.
The resources that will be used will
be research on what methods are
considered successful in the
classroom, documentation, and
communication.