Personal Learning (Development) Plan

EDU687: Professional Learning and Development Plan (Example)

I. Plan A. Introduction

 Introduce your plan and its purpose in approximately one paragraph.

B. School/Organization Vision

 State your school/organization vision in one to two sentences.

C. Professional Development Vision /Goal

 State your professional development vision/goal in one to two sentences.

D. School/Organization Guiding Principles

 State five to eight school/organization guiding principles.

II. Implementation of Professional Learning Standards A. Learning Communities

 Language arts teachers across the fourth through eighth grade levels will use first two

school-wide professional learning opportunities to collaborate in the design of

scaffolded curriculum maps to establish consistency between grade levels and to

support appropriate alignment to Common Core State Standards for ELA. (This is

much briefer than what you will describe.)

B. 21st Century Professional Development Standards

 Enables 21st century professional learning communities for teachers that model the

kinds of classroom learning that best promotes 21st century skills for students

 Encourages knowledge sharing among communities of practitioners, using face-to-

face, virtual and blended communications

C. NCLB Standards: includes activities that —

 improve and increase teachers' knowledge of the academic subjects the teachers

teach, and enable teachers to become highly qualified;

 are an integral part of broad school-wide and district-wide educational improvement

plans;

 give teachers, principals, and administrators the knowledge and skills to provide

students with the opportunity to meet challenging state academic content standards

and student academic achievement standards;

 are aligned with and directly related to state academic content standards, student

academic achievement standards, and assessments

D. State of Arizona Standards

 Follows Standards for Professional Learning for Learning Communities (Arizona has

absorbed LearningForward standards rather than having their own separate

standards).

o Leadership

o Resources

o Data

o Learning Designs

o Implementation

o Outcomes

III. Learning Systems Reflection A. Reflection of benefits of schools/organizations becoming a learning-system (See pages 46-48

in School Systems That Learn: Improving Professional Practice, Overcoming Limitations,

and Diffusing Innovation.)

B. Detail of how four drivers of change will be addressed in your plan and how each will

enhance teaching and learning

 Trust

 Collaboration

 Capacity Building

 Leaders at All Levels

C. Explanation of effect on culture when four drivers are in place

 Evaluation of Change