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Annual Professional Growth Plan Incorporating Reflection

Annual Professional Growth Plan for November 2019 to December 2019 Name: Bryce
Hellwig

Assignment and/or Career Goal: Goals for PS1

Goals:
1. Speak and write with clear, fluent, and grammatical language
2. Provide timely and effective feedback on learning to students. Ensure to not
procrastinate on lesson plans and feedback.
3. Create lesson plans that are well thought out and able to adapt when needed.
Teaching Quality Standard or School Leader Competency Reference:
1. TQS 2. B, D

2. TQS 2. B / 3. A, B, C,

3. TQS 2. A, B, D
Strategies Timeline Resources
1. During
Ensure I proofread and edit all of the work Practicum
done.
Use Grammarly when needed.

2.
When I get assignments back, I work on
them right away after class with the TA.
Work on lesson plans and assignments
right away.

3.
Ask for help on or feedback on lesson
plans created.
Make lesson plans ahead of time for
feedback and adaptions
Don’t get worried when plans don’t work,
be able to work on the fly, roll with the
punches.

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Indicators of Success: (developed as goal is written)

a) What will successful completion of my goal look like for my Professional Practice? For
Student Learning?
1.
- Ensure that all of the assignments, lesson plans and other documents I create are
grammatically correct with proof reading and having others proofread them.
2.
- Ensure assignments are finished on time, as well as, having time for editing
3.
- Created lesson plans that are open for feedback and our adapted when needed

Reflection on Indicator of Success (end of Year)

a) How successful have I been in meeting my goal?

1. My first goal was to Speak and write with clear, fluent, and grammatical
language. I would say that I was fairly successful with this goal. All of my lesson
plans were proofread multiple times, and some were put through Grammarly to
help edit and fix the things I had missed. However, I do need to work on speaking
fluently and with correct grammar. Too many times I would stumble on my words
or blank on what word I should use. While I did my best, this is a goal I would
like to continue to work on in PSII.

2. My second goal was to Provide timely and effective feedback on learning to

students and to Ensure to not procrastinate on lesson plans and feedback. This
goal was achieved by making sure my lesson plans were done a couple days
before and if not the night before so I would have plenty of time to work through
them and edit them. Working with the students on effective feedback happened
fairly naturally with group discussions and class work. If students had questions, I
helped to answer them. If they made mistakes in their work or understanding, I

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 would not tell them they were wrong but instead show them how the process of
their work could use correction to achieve the correct outcome. If I could not give
them feedback or answers to their questions, I would assure them that I would
find out tomorrow and answer their questions then. I feel as though I did my best
to successfully achieve this goal and will continue to work with the same work
ethic.

3. My third and final goal was, to create lesson plans that are well thought out and
able to adapt when needed. This was a goal that I worked on all the way till the
end of my practicum. Every lesson got a little bit better by learning things from
the previous. After every lesson I would converse with my TA about what went
well and what needed to be adapted for the next lesson. Something I am proud of
is the ability to know when students have grasped a concept and is able to move
on to the next. There were some lessons that I skipped sections that I planned
because, the students were already at an understanding and that it would have
been boring and made them restless to continue. Ensuring I continue to work on
my lesson planning skills, and ensuring I complete them days earlier so I have
time to go over them and practice them will make for stronger lesson. However,
the only way to really learn what works and what doesn’t is by teaching the lesson
and reflecting on the good and the bad.

b) How has my professional practice improved?

My professional practice was improved by observing my TA and asking questions about the
teaching profession. One thing that I learnt in Ed 2500 and continued to learn in PSI is
establishing a teacher presence. In Ed 2500 my TA told me I was not acting as a teacher and
more of a friend to the students, she taught me strategies on how to become a teacher not a
friend and I worked towards this till the completion of the semester. At the beginning of PSI I
told my TA about this and he gave me a piece of advice. As teachers we can be friendly to our
students, but we are not their friends, we are their teachers and we are here to teach them
valuable lessons in the subject matter and about life. To tell the students this and be honest
with them is the best way for the students to understand the relationship at play.

c) How has student learning improved?

Through my practicum there were many ways I learnt to help to improve student learning. one
of these practices is chunking information in my lessons. During my practicum I was
responsible for teaching the math unit. In my lessons I learnt that chunking or breaking down
concepts makes it easier for the students to learn the concepts. Examples include, concepts in
multiplication like standard algorithm, or division concepts like sets and sharing helps students
interpret the information and makes it easier to understand the concepts. Other ways that
student learning was improved during my practicum was the students being exposed to

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 different teaching styles. While I learnt a lot from my TA and adapted his way of teaching into
mine, we still had different teaching styles. This allows the students to learn from different
perspectives and styles and makes them more adaptable to situations where different teachers
are teaching.

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