Professional Development Plan Template
Professional Development Plan Template
Professional Development Plan Template
Complete the chart below to plan your professional development over the next 2-3 years. Be sure your goals are specific and
measureable.
Goal #1: Masters of Arts in Goal #2: Become a National Goal #3: Become an
History Board Certified Teacher AmeriCorps VISTA Summer
Associate
Rationale: Why did I chose this goal because I want to be I chose this goal because I believe I chose this goal because I think as a
you choose this goal? able to be flexible as far as my that becoming a National Board teacher, my primary goal is to help
How do you expect it teaching options. With my BA in Certified Teacher not only means that others. Joining an AmeriCorps
to improve the Elementary Education I can only I have pushed myself to achieve VISTA project will not only allow me
outcomes of your teach 1st-8th grade. With my Masters, another level of accreditation, but to help others in a whole new way,
I can teach up to the junior college also, the process itself will challenge but it will also give me the
future students?
level. I believe this will benefit my be both and a teacher and as an opportunity to grow as an individual.
students by giving me a deeper individual. I expect it to improve the Sometimes it is difficult to remember
understanding of the educational outcomes of my future students how fortunate we are. You can see
process as well as being more because it will challenge me to be the terrible things on the news, but you
educated in specific subject matter. I very best teacher possible. There is a are disconnected from it because it
also believe it adds to my belief of process to becoming certified that isn’t really the world you live in. This
being a life-long learner and always tests teaching abilities. I believe would give me an opportunity to
promoting the idea of continued striving for this goal will help me to work with a local agency on an anti-
education. continue to push myself to find new poverty project in a U.S. city that is in
and innovative ways to teach my need. Helping to serve a community
students. that is less fortunate than my own will
not only give me more empathy and
understanding, but I also help that it
will help me be a more culturally
rounded individual. Something that
all students would benefit from
having in a teacher.