Individual Professional Development Planning for Teachers

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Individual Professional Development Planningfor
Teachers

• School District of Lee County

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What is an Individual Professional Development
Plan (IPDP)?

• An IPDP is a personal plan which represents
  explicit learning goals.
• It focuses on improving student learning as the
  overall goal.
• It should be aligned with students, school, and
  district needs.
• It provides structure for professional growth.

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State Criteria for the IPDP

• Goal(s)
• Specific to the students to whom the teacher is
  assigned
• Measurable improvements in student performance
• Method of evaluation that is used within the
  school or classroom
• Strategies
• Clearly defined training and objectives identified

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Planned Improvements through Professional
Development
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The School District of Lee County PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Form is located on Personnel Services website
http//learn/dept/personnel/Forms/printableforms.h
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Identifying Your Goals

• First Priority for Goals
• Tested subject area(s) for which students in your
  classroom need improvement.
• Standards that you identify as needing
  improvement based on current student data.

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Developing SMART Goal(s)
Write a SMART Goal S Student-Focused M
Measurable A Attainable R Results-Oriented T
Time-bound
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Creating a Goal Statement(s)
_____ or ______ of ______students will
__________ as measured on _______ by _________.
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Creating Goal Statement(s)
95 of my 9th grade students will score a 3.5 or
higher as measured on the School Mock Writing
Assessment in March.

• Relates to my
• students learning
• Measurable
• Evaluation Method

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Creating AYP Goal Statements
100 of my ELL students who scored in the red or
yellow Success Zone on the Broad Screen
Assessment during Assessment Period 1 will
improve by at least one (1) Success Zone in
Assessment Period 3.

• Relates to my students learning
• Represents students in my classroom
• Is measurable
• Includes the Evaluation Method

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Whats WrongWith These Goals?

1. My students will increase their scores in math.
2. I will implement a Cooperative Discipline program
   in my class.
3. 100 of my students will return their textbooks
   at the end of the year.

Criteria for Goal Statements

• Specific to my students learning needs
• Measurable improvements in student performance
• Includes a method of evaluation

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Why focus on Teacher Professional Development?

• Research shows that each dollar spent on
  recruiting high-quality teachers and deepening
  their knowledge and skills nets greater gains in
  student learning than any other use of an
  education dollar.
• (Ferguson, Greenwald, Hedges, Laine as cited in
  Darling-Hammond, 1997, p.1)

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Professional Development
District Inservice School Inservice Professiona
l Learning Communities Lesson Study College
Coursework Independent Study
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Developing Strategies

• Consider reading or research-based instructional
  strategies
• Focus on SSS, subject content, instructional
  practices, technology, assessment, data analysis
  and classroom management
• Include specific outcomes from training that you
  will implement

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Defining Your Strategies

• EXAMPLE
• Implement Training Outcomes of Six Traits Writing
• Ideas, Organization, Voice, Word Choice, Sentence
  Fluency, and Conventions
• Six-Trait analytic rubric to assess writing
• Strategies of modeling and revision to improve
  student writing
• Monitor progress through monthly classroom
  assessments

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Identifying Documentation Methods Dates

• Inservice Record (to document training
  attendance)
• Lesson Plans (to document implementation of
  training strategies)
• Pinnacle Classroom Grades/ Records
• Classroom data graph

Summer, 2011
Ongoing
Pinnacle Report
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RESULTS
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Plan, Deliver, Follow Up, Evaluate
This is the planning part of the IPDP. Do these
sections now. Then implement your plan and track
student progress throughout the year!
The outcomes are completed at the end of the year!
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RESULTS
Writing Example
END-OF-YEAR OUTCOMES On the school-wide writing assessment in March. 23 of my students received a 5.0 or higher 25 of my students received a 4.0 or 4.5 50 of my students received a 3.5 98 of my students scored a 3.5 or higher (Attach additional page if necessary)
To be completed at end of year prior to annual
assessment
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RESULTS
AYP Example
END-OF-YEAR OUTCOMES On the Broad Screen Assessment for Assessment Period 3 28 of my ELL students who were in the red Success Zone moved to the green Success Zone. 38 of my ELL students who were in the red Success Zone moved to the yellow Success Zone. 30 of my ELL students who were in the yellow Success Zone moved to the green Success Zone. 96 of my underperforming ELL students improved by at least one (1) Success Zone. (Attach additional page if necessary)
To be completed at end of year prior to annual
assessment
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REFLECTION
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Reflecting on Results

• Once your IPDP is completed, it is important to
• Reflect on the results of the evaluation (end of
  year outcomes)
• Use the results as part of the needs assessment
  process for next years IPDP development
• Modify or discontinue the use of the professional
  development strategies if they did not
  demonstrate improvements in student performance.

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For more information . . .
CURRICULUM STAFF DEVELOPMENT CENTER http//curriculum.leeschools.net/welcome.htm Click on IPDP Tools to find Link to theTeacher IPDP Form (This form is linked to the Personnel Department website and is available on the Intranet only) IPDP Planning Checklist Self Assessment Planning Tool Form PowerPoint-Teacher Individual Professional Development Plan (IPDP)Florida Statute Related to IPDP