PDP Part 2:
PDP stand for professional development plan. professional development plan provides a
system that will you identify the area of your strength and weaknesses and think of a guide
that will improve and capitalise their current abilities and capacities. It is a preview of where
you remain at the hour of the assessment that lets you think about your following steps.
The importance to having a professional development plan is it will help people define what
they want from their career and how they will achieve their goals. Moreover, PDP will help
you gain understanding of yourself, including professional abilities and areas for
improvement. The benefits of having professional development plan is having promotions,
raises, new professional opportunities and smooth career transitions.
There are steps for writing your professional development plan to have a successful PDP.
Assessing your position now, identifying your goals in your teaching career, identifying your
professional skills that you already have and what you need to work with, write how you are
going to achieve these goals you wrote, develop a timeline for achieving your goals and
targets, write your plan. Implement your plan, evaluate your plan and make changes if
needed, then measure your progress to see if you achieved your goals.
The important thing to me for having a Professional development plan is that I know what I
want to achieve and where I want to reach, writing my plans to achieve my goals is very
important to see my progress to reach my goals and to gain knowledge and experience in
teaching primary students which would help me also if I wanted to have my master’s degree.
My goals for this semester and next semester are clear, I have set 3 goals to achieve before
graduating. My first goal is to have a good time managing to be able to finish what I planned
in the lesson plan during the class. Another goal is to record student’s progress through doing
assessments and giving feedbacks. And my last goal is to have the ability to manage student’s
behavior during teaching.
During this teaching practice I faced many problems that kept me struggling to achieve this
goal, technical problems, student behaviors. I managed to try and achieve all my goals to
improve my teaching and my way of managing the class and the students.
During this teaching practice, I was able to teach full lessons for a whole week, I was
assigned with a math teacher for 3rd and 4th graders. However, achieving some of my goals
was impossible during online teaching.
managing students’ behaviors during teaching, it was hard for me to use any applications for
managing the behaviors, I was not able to access students list and ClassDojo to use it. I tried
to manage and use my own strategies for managing the student’s behaviors, but I failed
because the students are not used to me giving them instructions, during my observations and
teaching students keeps waiting for my MST to give them instructions and to follow my rules
this kept me struggling achieving the goals.
Goa My goal is to record student’s progress through doing assessments and giving
l 2: feedbacks.
Acti During assessment for example quizzes and activities, I will start giving feedback as
on the students working in the class, sometimes it is difficult to do that, but it is
2: possible.
1- I will be using apps where it can show student’s marks immediately after
finishing the quiz or the assessment. For example, I can use kahoot,
Showbie, seesaw and other application where the students can work and
have fun at the same time.
2- Tracking students’ progress through giving out homework and bringing
them the next day.
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Evi For my evidence these are some results for my students from quizzes: (answers and
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Questions for Nearpod Quiz: (Results and questions:
Nearpod game: (matching)
Finally, my third goal is to be able to finish my lesson plan on time, to be able to finish all the
activities on time with no extra time. It was hard for me to manage the students to be on time in the
classroom, I had to send a request for each student to join the class, this caused me to lose a lot of
time during the beginning of the lesson.
in conclusion, in future I will be more careful about achieving the rest of my goals, it was hard for me
to manage everything because it was my first time teaching online, I did not know the problems I will
be facing technical issues and student behaviours.
References:
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