Week 5 Assignment 1, Part 3: Draft Professional Development Plan (20 points)
Due Week 5
Due Week 5
Directions:
- Complete a Draft Three-year Professional Development Plan. Feel free to utilize as much space as needed. Refer to page 133 of your School Leader Internship text (3rd edition) for guidance. (page123 in the 2nd edition.)
- Include specific information under each of the three to five goals/objectives of your plan, (you may not have all the specifics now) about who will serve as mentor, books to read, training sessions to attend, committees to serve on, as well as a focus on a skill or knowledge area while at work. Include the dates, or estimated timelines, you plan to work on each goal and anticipated completion date. Also include an evaluative statement that will signal completion of goal. For example, one goal could be to learn how to develop a master schedule. Your evaluative statement would be that I have developed a workable master schedule.
- Upload the Draft Professional Development Plan into the course.
- Upload the Draft Professional Development Plan to Tk20
Future Professional Development Plan---
I currently have a loose outline of a professional development plan. I have reviewed the Educational Leadership Policy Standards: ISLLC 2008.
These standards represent the broad, high-priority themes that education leaders must address in order to promote the success of every student.
These six standards call for:
1. Setting a widely shared vision for learning;
2. Developing a school culture and instructional program conducive to student learning and staff professional growth;
3. Ensuring effective management of the organization, operation, and resources for a safe, efficient, and effective learning environment;
4. Collaborating with faculty and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources;
5. Acting with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner; and
6. Understanding, responding to, and influencing the political, social, legal, and cultural contexts.
My current mentor, who I work with on a daily basis, is Mr. Lupton, Assistant Principal of Memorial High School. I also have a second mentor Dr. Mitchell, Head Principal of Memorial High School. I work with Dr. Mitchell when I have questions that Mr. Lupton cannot answer.
I have completed 150 hours of internship time recorded in Summary Log but I still have not completed all 38 standards. I have several to complete. Two of my priority goals were to complete my Research Inquiry project and paper. I have completed this task and written my report as of this September 2013. I have turned in the Research Inquiry Paper with my resources and titles of the scholarly works I used to collect my data. Some of the works are listed below:
2010 Census Summary File 1—Bridge City city[machine-readable data files]/prepared by the U.S. Census Bureau, 2011. Retrieved from: http://www.census.gov/2010census/data/
Dana, N.F. (2009). Leading with Passion and Knowledge: The Principal as Action Researcher.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Eagle, Eva. (1989) Socioeconomic status, family structure, and parental involvement: The
correlates of achievement. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American
Educational Research Association (San Francisco, CA, March 27-31, 1989).
Epstein, J.L. (1987) Parent involvement: What research says to administrators. Education and
Urban Society, 19(2), 119-137).
Henderson, A. T., & Berla, N. (Eds.). (1994). A new generation of evidence: The family is
critical to student achievement (A report from the National Committee for citizens in
education). Washington, DC: Center for Law and Education.
National Coalition for Parent Involvement for Education/Public Education Network. (n.d.) NCLB
action briefs: Adequate yearly progress (AYP). Washington, DC: Public Education
Network. Retrieved January 22, 2009, from:
http://www.publiceducation.org/portals/nclb/ayp/index.asp.No Child Left Behind - ED.gov - U.S. Department of Education. Retrieved from: http://www2.ed.gov/policy/policy- by-program.html
Payne, Ruby. (2001). A framework for understanding poverty. Highlands, Texas: aha!
Process, Inc.
Peña, Delores C. (2000). Parent involvement: Influencing factors and implications. The journal
of educational research. [Vol. 94(No.1)]
Tileston, Donna W., & Sandra K. Darling. (2008). Why culture counts: teaching children of
poverty. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press, ISBN: 9781934009246
Whitaker, Todd. (2004) What great teachers do differently: 14 things that matter most. Eye on
Education, Inc. Larchmont, NY.
Some of my weaknesses getting to this point were my familiarity with APA style. I still am still not as proficient as I would like to be. My Research Inquiry started in December 2012 and I completed all my Parent meetings and Parent sessions including the smaller intimate parent meetings by May 2013. I recorded my results and was able to write my Research Inquiry with the help and guidance during Internship for Supervisor class 5397. With this project I was able to practice all 6 skills listed under the Educational Leadership Policy Standards: ISLLC 2008.
Currently I still have 5 classes left thru Lamar University to earn my Master of Educational Leadership degree. I believe that I will use my new campus, Memorial High School, as a starting point to practice these skills on a smaller level. The future committee I would like to be part of is the School Improvement Plan. I would like to become part of a Committee that can change and shape school culture and create ties with the community and school. I plan to be part of the Committee for the upcoming school year 2014-2015. I was able to attend the summer in-service covering the Needs Assessment report from the previous year. Teachers here evaluated the Report and discussed adopting a new mission statements and school vision.
