mentoring and professional development
and strategies that have worked well for them with new teachers. This is your opportunity to discuss what you want to learn with colleagues who are learners as well. You can even share your PDP with a colleague and work on a goal together and share the results. Collaborating with others will help you realize your goal for yourself and your students.
General Tips for Writing Your PDP Choose an area for professional growth to focus on that you really enjoy, want to learn more about and will keep you motivated and interested. Think of your professional growth in conjunction with its effect on student learning.
After each section of the PDP, use the checklist questions to ensure that you have included all necessary components.
Create a plan for you to grow. This plan is created by you and functions as a vehicle to advance to the Professional Educator License.
Collect data along the way as you move through your license cycle. Even if you do not list certain pieces of evidence in your plan, keep an open mind to save documentation of what you are doing and what the students are learning. You can be selective about your evidence at the end of your license cycle and choose the best indicators of your professional growth and its effect on student learning when submitting your completed plan to the PDP team.
When you are collecting evidence of professional growth and student learning, date each piece of evidence so that you can show growth in both areas over time.
Think of ways that you can collect evi- dence as part of your daily teaching so that your evidence doesn’t become something separate from what you are doing as part of the teaching and learning process.
If a learning opportunity comes your way and you did not list it as a possible activity, participate in the opportunity and note this
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change under revisions in Part III when writing your annual review. Don’t ever feel that you need to pass on some great experience because it was not part of your original plan.
Keep in mind that you are not only an educator but a learner. The PDP empow- ers you to choose what you desire to learn and how you will have a positive effect on students.
As you write your professional develop- ment plan, make it your own. Seek out opportunities to learn and grow and make these opportunities part of your plan.
Reflect on your teaching and student learn- ing honestly and critically and work with colleagues and other experts as you work toward achieving your PDP goal.
Reference:
Peine, J. (2008). The Educator’s Profes- sional Growth Plan: A Process for De- veloping Staff and Improving Instruction. California: Corwin Press.
Jill Prushiek is the director of field experiences and certification at UW-Eau Claire. Email:
prushijt@uwec.edu
Wisconsin Foundation for School Music 2011 Board of Trustees •
www.wsmamusic.org/foundation
President Sarah Jerome, Superintendent, Arlington Heights School District
President Elect Gerald Kember, Superintendent, La Crosse School District Past President
Richard Mannisto, Senior Consultant, McDonald Schaefer Group, Milwaukee Treasurer
Jim Byrd, President, Midwest Asset Management, Inc., Madison Board Members
Robert Berndt, Superintendent, Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine Schools Jim Brandmeier, Music Business Program Chair, Globe University, Madison Elizabeth Burmaster, President, Nicolet College, Rhinelander Gregg Butler, Administrator, Eau Claire County Off Campus High School Roy Elkins, CEO/Founder,
Broadjam.com, Madison Lydia Kiebzak, Vice President, Madison Investment Advisors Rhea Myers, Attorney, Wheeler Van Sickle and Anderson, Madison R. Scott Pierce, District Administrator, Central High School District of Westosha Richard J. Pearson, President, Pearson Engineering, Madison James Schutz, Financial Advisor, Statehouse Investments, Madison
Advisory Council Linda Bergren, Financial Advisor, Raymond James, Madison
Roger White, White House of Music, Inc., Waukesha
Richard W. Wolf, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Staff Mike George, Executive Director,
mgeorge@wsmamusic.org
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