Writing a Professional Development Plan

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Writing a Professional Development Plan
Prepared by your North Fork Local Professional
Development Committee August, 2009
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• Effective August 1, 2009, the Ohio Department
  of Education has established Standards for Ohio
  Educators.
• Standards for the Teaching Profession
• Standards for Principals
• Standards for Professional Development
• You should have received a booklet in 2008 that
  sets out all of these standards.

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Dont have the booklet?
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Go to the North Fork School District home page.
Click on the Teachers and Staff tab under the
picture.
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Look in the lower right corner for PD information.
Click on Ohio Standards for the Teaching
Profession.
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• Seven areas of teaching standards
• Students and how they learn
• Content area
• Assessments
• Instruction
• Learning environment
• Collaboration and communication
• Professionalism

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State PDP Requirements ALL SEVEN standards areas
must be included in the PDP goals. One goal CAN
include more than one standard. One standard CAN
appear in more than one goal. Goals must specify
which area(s) each covers.
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To assist the goal writer, instructions are now
included in each part of the PDP form.
A. Professional Development Goals (4 to 6
recommended) (NOTE For teachers, each of your
goals must be tied to one or more of the Seven
Standards developed by ODE in 2007. If you
cannot locate your copy of these Standards, they
are available on the ODE website and on the North
Fork website, under Teachers and Staff. You
must identify which Standard(s) your goal
addresses, within the goal. During the duration
of your plan, and your license term, you must
address each of the seven standards.)
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Example Goal 1
I will learn more about reading strategies,
techniques, and methods for the purpose of
increasing reading comprehension and
understanding in my language arts classroom so
that student achievement will be increased.
Teaching Standard 1 Students, 2 Content Area
and 4 Instruction.
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Example Goal 2
I will learn about and apply higher level
thinking strategies so that I can incorporate
them into my daily science lesson plans, so that
student achievement will increase. Teaching
Standard 1 Students, 2 Content Area and 4
Instruction.
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Example Goal 3
I will gain an understanding on how to develop
interdisciplinary units by working with other
teachers, with the purpose of making learning
more meaningful for students so that student
achievement will be increased. Teaching
Standards 6 Collaboration 4 Instruction.