The INDIVIDUAL Professional Development PLAN

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The INDIVIDUAL Professional Development PLAN

• A Guide to Assist with Teacher Growth Through the
  IPDP Process

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School Improvement
The only way we can improve our schools is
people. Dr. Richard DuFour When
you talk about school improvement you are talking
about people improvement. Ernest Boyer
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Objectives

• Participants will be able to create an Individual
  Professional Development Plan (IPDP) to enhance
  their performance and make even greater gains in
  the classroom.
• Define Action Research
• Identify data about their own performance and
  that of their students and use that data as part
  of an action research plan (IPDP)
• Identify appropriate sources of data to process
  monitor
• Identify appropriate benchmarks of performance
  from which they can make personal decisions about
  their teaching performance
• Maintain the plan throughout the plan period
• Determine outcomes of the action research used as
  part of the IPDP process

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Individual Professional Development plan

• What is Action Research?
• Action research is a model of professional
  development that promotes collaborative inquiry,
  reflection, and dialogue. Within the action
  research process, educators study student
  learning related to their own teaching. It is a
  process that allows educators to learn about
  their own instructional practices and to continue
  to monitor improved student learning (Rawlinson
  Little, 2004 Emphasis Added).
• Your IPDP is your tool for Action Research

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Individual Professional Development plan

• FLORIDA STATUTE 1012.98(5)
• 5.  Require each school principal to establish
  and maintain an individual professional
  development plan for each instructional employee
  assigned to the school as a seamless component to
  the school improvement plans developed pursuant
  to s. 1001.42(18). The individual professional
  development plan must
• a.  Be related to specific performance data for
  the students to whom the teacher is assigned.
• b.  Define the inservice objectives and specific
  measurable improvements expected in student
  performance as a result of the inservice
  activity.
• c.  Include an evaluation component that
  determines the effectiveness of the professional
  development plan.

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Individual Professional development plan The
FINAL SCREEN
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Individual Professional Development plan
Research on student achievement identified
teacher quality as the 1 factor in student
academic success.
TEACHER STUDENT PERFORMANCE
ACHIEVEMENT
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Individual Professional Development Plan Review
of the Data

• What are my areas to manage?
• Review your previous year(s) class data. Ask
  yourself these important questions
• Where have I noticed that my students have
  struggled academically most in the past? What
  are skills, concepts or strands associated with
  that performance that my students have not seemed
  to master? What data do I have to support that?
• What have always been my greatest struggles with
  students in terms of classroom management? What
  does my data show?
• What single thing, that if I did it exceptionally
  well, would make the greatest impact on my
  students? Why do I think so? Do I have data that
  supports that?
• Are there patterns of poor student performance
  for the past several years?

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Individual Professional Development pLan Problem
Identification

• As we know, student achievement is directly
  correlated with teacher effectiveness. If there
  is a section of FCAT or even a chapter test on
  which a teachers students seem to score poorly,
  then this is an area where the teacher can do a
  pretest on current students.
• Trust yourself, but look at the data. If the
  data (FCAT, teacher tests, report card data, etc.
  or other measure) shows that your students have
  historically not done as well on fractions you
  have identified the problem.
• You may also use data from your previous
  Instructional Performance Assessments
  (evaluations).
• New Teachers can use data from their students
  past performance on standardized tests, report
  cards, attendance, etc.
• Identify and focus on one area for improvement in
  student performance.

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Individual Professional Development pLan
Determine the diagnostic or screening tool

• You have identified the problem, and now you need
  a way to measure the student outcomes that result
  from the changes in instruction that you
  implement. You must ask yourself the question
  What type of diagnostic or screening tool can I
  use to determine baseline data now and growth
  data later?
• Administer the tool/instrument to your current
  students to determine your baseline.
• Summarize the data for your students

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Individual Professional Development plan
creating your ipdp on the employee portal
Teachers will need to access the EMPLOYEE PORTAL
in order to create their IPDP online. The
location of the EMPLOYEE PORTAL is
http//employees.osceola.k12.fl.us
The opening page of the Employee Portal looks
like this
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Creating your IPDP on the employee portal
On the left hand side of the Employee Portal
opening page you will see IPDP listed.
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Creating your ipdp on the employee portal
After you click on IPDP you will see the
following display
Move your cursor over Your IPDP and click once.
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Creating your ipdp on the employee portal
This is the next screen you will see
You will click here to begin filling in your IPDP
information.
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Individual Professional Development pLan creation

In the block above you will enter the problem
statement and the data used to determine the
baseline. (For example, 38 of the students were
able to recognize the basic parts of speech as
measured by XYZ Publishers Grade 6 pre-test for
Language Arts)
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Individual Professional Development pLan
creation

In this block enter the improvement goal it
must be specific and indicate measurable
improvements expected in student performance as a
result of inservice activity and the timeline for
their completion. For example 90 of the
students will be able to recognize the basic
parts of speech by February 2009 as measured by
the XYZ Language Arts Post Test
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INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANRelation
to SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT
Relationship to school improvement plan
Your improvement goal must relate directly to one
or more of the School Improvement goals. In this
block you must tell how your individual goal
relates to the school-wide plan.
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Individual Professional Development pLan
Determine the diagnostic or screening tool
In this block enter the Professional Development
Activities.

• The Professional Development in your plan should
  focus on one of the following
• Sunshine State Standards
• Subject Content
• Use of Technology
• Teaching Methods/Instructional Strategies
• Assessment and Data Analysis
• Classroom Management
• School Safety
• Parent/Community Involvement
• Professional Development is a journey not a
  destination.

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Individual Professional Development pLan
Determine the diagnostic or screening tool
In the next block enter the Classroom
Strategies/Activities.
Enter the classroom strategies that you are using
to achieve your goals.
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Individual Professional Development pLan MEETING
NOTES

The teacher and Administrator will meet to review
the plan as required by statute and at that point
agree on the implementation of the plan.
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Implementation

• The next step in the process is to begin
  implementation attend training, implement the
  new strategies you have learned through the
  training and research and to monitor the
  progress. Progress monitoring is essential to
  reaching our goals. For instance, if you were
  driving from Florida to California and you had
  never done that before, your goal would be to
  drive to California and arrive safely. Along the
  route, you would check the signs and the map to
  make certain you were on track to reach your goal
  of California. It doesnt make any difference if
  you are able to drive 100 mph if you are heading
  in the wrong direction. You are making great
  time, but will never reach California. The same
  is true in the classroom. You have to check your
  progress along the way.

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INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNINE
WEEK REFLECTION
Teams may decide to meet over the course of the
plan to discuss progress. Reflect on the
strategies that you are using to achieve your
goals and the results. Its best to list these
as you implement. This makes it easier for you
in the end and makes the IPDP a living document
for you.
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Individual Professional Development pLan PLAN
COMPLETION

The teacher and Administrator will meet at the
close of the plan to review the plan and the
results. Like an Olympic athlete, reaching the
finish line does not mean the end of running
just the end of that race.