Sample Professional Growth Goals

Sample Professional Growth Goals
Each goal and action plan together should answer the following questions. The goal samples that follow
include reference to the actions to be taken in order to meet the goal.
1. What do I want to change about my instruction or leadership that will effectively impact student
learning?
2. What is my personal learning necessary to make the change?
3. What are the measures of success?
Any content area – student engagement Any Content area – learning styles
For the 2012 – 13 school year, I will improve During the 2012-2013 school year, I will
my ability to engage students in their learning increase student engagement by using a
by attending and implementing Rigor and learning styles inventory with every student
Relevance training, researching and and designing lessons that address the
implementing strategies for engaging students different styles within my class. I will research
in rigorous learning, and refining my use of teaching strategies to engage the different
student involved formative assessment learning styles and study So Each May Learn
practices. These will be measured through pre by Silver. Measures of success will include
and post assessments, student work samples, student work products, observation, and
interim assessments, peer and principal student and teacher self-reflection.
observations and conferences, and self-
reflection.
Science Any content area – formative assessment
For the 2012 – 2013 school year, I will improve During this school year, I will study Classroom
writing instruction in my science classroom by Assessment for Student Learning, by Rick
implementing and reflecting on strategies Stiggins, and embed formative assessment
learned during a summer writing workshop for practices in my daily instruction. Indicators of
teachers. I’ll incorporate writing strategies for success will include classroom observation,
describing observations, explaining scientific self-reflection, analysis of student assessment
phenomena, explain cause & effect data, and observable student engagement.
occurrences, and drawing conclusions from
experiments. Indicators of success will be
student work samples, analysis of student’s
writing products, and self-reflection.
Reading in any content area Any content area - questioning
During the school year, I will learn to integrate During the school year, I will improve my
literacy strategies in my instruction. I will questioning techniques to engage students in
implement learning from a literacy workshop higher level critical thinking and problem
and from reading professional literature. solving. I will implement learning from study
Measures of success will include results from of Thinking Strategies. Growth will be
analysis of student work samples, self- evidenced through lesson plans, observation,
reflection, student surveys, and observation. self-reflection, and student work samples.
Special Education Teacher Leadership
During the 2012-2013 school year, I will This school year, I will learn best practices for
increase my knowledge of supporting students mentoring new teachers in my building. I will
with autism. I will research on-line resources, participate in the district study group and
consult with district/state/cooperative special Cognitive Coaching PD and attend a KYVL on-
education coordinators, observe a mentor line course for mentoring teachers. Evidence
teacher, and participate in a on-line short of success will include district PD certificate,
course on autism. This will be evidenced by course completion certificate, mentee teacher
notes and self-reflection, anecdotal notes on surveys, self-reflection on mentoring
my interactions with autistic students, and the opportunities.
short course certificate.
Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) teachers Math Design Collaborative (MDC) teachers
This school year, I will implement what I am During the 2011-2012 school year, I will
learning through LDC to support students in improve my ability to think more deeply about
meeting the Common Core standards. I will mathematical concepts using what I am
design action research around implementing learning through MDC about math formative
LDC modules as intended, analyze student assessment lessons. I will engage my students
work, and reflect on impact on students. in more critical thinking and problem solving
Success criteria includes self-reflection, about mathematics and help students
student surveys, analysis of student before & persevere when struggling to learn new
after work samples, and completed modules. concepts. This will be evidenced by formative
assessment lessons student work samples,
observation, and self-reflection.
Any content area - technology Writing in any content area
During the school year, I will increase student During the 2011-2012 school year, I will learn
use of technology for learning in my to incorporate online writing tools in my
classroom. I will collaborate with a district writing workshop. After collaborating with the
technology cadre to learn ways to integrate technology resource teacher to investigate
learning with technology in instruction. We Google Docs and other on-line tools, my
will also study Kajder’s book Adolescents and students will have opportunities to write
Digital Literacies and other resources. independently, collaboratively and
Evidence of success includes lesson plans, give/receive feedback using the tools. This will
student work samples, and self-reflection. be evidenced by student writing samples,
lesson plans, and reflection.

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