Individualized Professional Development Plan

Name Major:

Lucy McRoberts Secondary English Education

Start with your WHY: Why are you pursuing this degree? What do you want the outcome to be? How are you
going to work toward making that outcome possible? **Is the outcome directly related to your WHY?
WHY: I’ve always loved English and wanted to share my love of education with others. I’ve always wanted to be a teacher

so majoring in English education felt right.

What: I want to inspire students to work hard and try their best. I also want to help them lay the foundation needed to

meet their goals.

How: I will further discover what it means to be an educator and how I can help all different kinds of students so that I can

be a teacher they look back on and remember fondly.

TIMEFRAME Personal goals: Professional goals:

(e.g. Positional goals, membership to organizations, (e.g. Gaining further skills, advancing knowledge is
exploring opportunities, etc) specific areas, Memberships in Professional
Associations etc)

Next Semester Join a sorority Look for substitute teaching or tutoring options

Continue to learn Spanish Take a Spanish class

Next year Become a peer mentor Work at the Writer’s Studio

 Continue to learn Spanish

Work in schools as a substitute teacher during breaks

Individual Professional Development Plan Template

Assets and Provocations
Planned Activities Objective of Alignment to Vision, How activity impacts
Development Activity Mission, Core Values, student learning
Major, or Minor

Required  Take SP 204  Earn credit  Complete the  I will have furthered
knowledge/skills towards a double World Language my knowledge in a
major requirement for a foreign language and
Consider:
double major have improved my
●required ability to communicate
competencies: like  Learn more  Better understand  The appreciation with non-English
COE Core Value about ENL how ENL of diversity and speakers.
Proficiencies, programs in programs work similarity  By learning about
Professional Indiana ENL programs in
Standards for your Indiana I can better
content or licensure, understand what
opportunities would
be available to me
with an ENL license.

Assets/Strengths ● Peer edit ● Practice analyzing ● The excitement of ● By assisting

classmates students writing teaching, learning classmates with their
Consider: papers assignments and mentoring assignments, I can
●your views develop my own
critical thinking skills
●recent assessments
● Discover ● Hone my strengths ● The excitement of and better my own
●other people’s views writing.
where my to become a better teaching, learning
strengths lie version of myself and mentoring ● By focusing on my
personal strengths I
will be able to assess
 myself better and
grow in those areas

Provocations/Growth ● Study abroad ● Learn about how ● The appreciation ● By learning more
education works in for diversity and about other cultures
Consider: other countries similarity and other countries
●gaps in educational standards
knowledge/skills I can more effectively
● Substitute ● Gain experience in ● The excitement of work with students
●opportunities on the
horizon teach over a classroom and teaching, learning who were educated in
breaks develop classroom and mentoring other countries.
●what specific actions
management skills ● By working as a sub I
will help you to
progress in your role? can gain experience
in a classroom before
my student teaching
placements and better
prepare myself to be a
teacher.

Individual Professional Development Plan Activity Log

(1) (2) (3)

Description of professional development activity Timeframe
completed Connection to your stated objective

1. Access for All workshop with November 2, 2020 Learn about assistive technology for students with
PATINS on zoom disabilities
1:00PM-3:00PM
 2. Council for Exceptional Children October 29, 2020 Learn about how the Council for Exceptional Children was
meeting with Chad Wood formed and learn about special education programs
12:00PM-12:45PM

3. Council for Exceptional Children October 14, 2020 Learn about how the Council for Exceptional Children was
meeting with Katie Mitchell formed and learn about special education programs
7:00PM-8:00PM

4. St. Mary’s virtual study trip September 21, 2020 Learn about reggio Emilia teaching philosophy and how it is
implemented in schools
1:00PM-2:00PM

5. International School virtual September 14, 2020 Learn about the international school of Indiana and the
study trip teaching philosophies implemented there
1:00PM-2:00PM

Total PD Hours 5.75 Hours

Throughout the semester in 199 we had several virtual study trips that aligned with the COE core values. The International School of Indiana
exemplified the application of diversity and similarity by hosting students of many different nationalities who speak several different languages.
ISI also exemplified the excitement of teaching, learning and mentoring by offering to let 199 students substitute teach at the school in order to
help prepare us for our own classrooms in the future. Due to COVID-19 all of our study trips had to be converted to virtual trips which aligned
with the COE core value of technology proficiencies as we become very familiar with Zoom and all of its features. The COE core values of the
challenge of integrated practice and collaboration and the strength of integrity and responsibility were both demonstrated in our visit to Riley
Hospital for Children. Education at Riley Hospital looks very different than it does in a traditional classroom which can be a challenge for teachers
but also forces them to think outside the box and focus on how to make sure that child at Riley receives the same standard of education as a
child in a traditional school. I’m so excited to continue on in the College of Education and learn more while I work towards earning my degree
and becoming a teacher.