EMS 470 Professional Growth Plan

Name: Walaa Sarsour Position/Subject Area: 6th grade math teacher

A. NC Professional Teaching Standards

Standard(s) to be addressed:

 Standard 4: Teachers Facilitate Learning for Their Students.

Element(s) to be addressed:

 Teachers help students work in teams and develop leadership qualities.

 Teachers help students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

B. Teacher’s Strategies

Expected Outcomes and

Goals for Activities/Actions Evidence of Completion Resources Needed Timeline
Elements
Goal 1:  I’ll organize learning teams  Within their  Lesson plans  Teacher
in order to help students teams/groups and which include modeling and
 My goal is to define roles, strengthen as a whole class, group work practice begins
help students social ties, improve students define and from day 1.
develop communication and roles, have strong collaborative  Multiple times
cooperative collaborative skills, and social ties, effective activities. a week,
and interact with each other communication and  Teacher-led depending on
collaborative while engaging in collaborative skills, training and the lesson plan
skills. mathematically-relevant interact with people instruction on activities.
and productive tasks. from different effective and
cultures and productive
backgrounds, and team/group
have leadership work and
qualities. interaction in
the classroom.
Goal 2:  I’ll encourage students to  Students will have a  I will  These practices
ask questions, think growth mindset. encourage will be ongoing
 My goal creatively, develop and test They will be able to students to starting from
is to innovative ideas. think creatively, have a growth the first day of
develop  I’ll help students exercise develop and test mindset, and class.
critical and communicate sound innovative ideas, we will have  Students will
thinking reasoning; understand synthesize discussions be reminded of
and connections; make complex knowledge and about what appropriate
problem- choices; and frame, analyze, effectively draw that is and critical
solving and solve problems. their own what it looks thinking,
skills in Students will be engaging in conclusions. like in the reasoning, and
my comfortable exploration of classroom, questioning
students. the math, accepting especially in skills on a daily
challenges, and being mathematics. basis/as
comfortable with making  Through my appropriate.
mistakes. lesson plans,
students will
be able to
explore the
math
themselves,
take their own
routes to
solving the
problems (as
appropriate),
and I will
encourage
critical thought
and
questioning in
the learning
process.