Individualized Professional Development Plan

Name: Kayla Miller Major: Secondary Education and History

Start with your WHY: Why are you pursuing this degree? What do you want the outcome to be? How are you going to work
toward making that outcome possible? **Is the outcome directly related to your WHY?
WHY:_I want to become a history teacher and work with Civics Education groups to advocate for an increase of civics

materials in schools and teach students about passion, respect, and service._

What:_I would like the outcome to be a career I love and working with and shaping young people._

How:_I will pursue a degree in Secondary Education and History and obtain experience with teaching and civics education

groups over the next four years. _

TIMEFRAME Personal goals: Professional goals:

(e.g. Positional goals, membership to organizations, (e.g. Gaining further skills, advancing knowledge is
exploring opportunities, etc) specific areas, Memberships in Professional
Associations etc)

This Semester -Take time to care for yourself and explore your hobbies -Gain teaching experience through ED 112
classroom/professional work
(select at least -Obtain an executive position in the club PAVE and help
one item) build the group and help make the campus a safer -Continue to do your best on all assignments in your classes
environment

-Communicate more with family

Next Semester -Branch out and meet new people (as long as the COVID -Finish up CORE I, II in the College of Education and start to
threat has lessened) find your place there.

-Get involved with community service through Kappa Kappa -Get experience with educators and students during the
Gamma (Reading is Fundamental and Coburn Place) school year

Next year -Deepen friendships with people from First Year of college -Work on confidence around and in front of people you don’t
 and within your sorority know well

-Narrow your interests within the Butler community and -Build a relationship with a mentor
Indianapolis

Individual Professional Development Plan Template

Assets and Provocations
Planned Activities Objective of Alignment to Vision, How activity impacts
Development Activity Mission, Core Values, student learning
Major, or Minor

Required -Completing CORE -Becoming proficient in the -This is required for my -The Butler COE curriculum
knowledge/skills programs 1-4 within the COE Core Values and major and it will help me to will teach me important
next 3 years Professional Standards continue my learning information I need to know as
Consider: journey while becoming a a teacher that will benefit my
-Gain experience -This is a part of CORE, licensed educator. students.
●required teaching to improve but will also improve
competencies: like
your knowledge and general teaching skills. -This is also required (for -Coming into my first job with
COE Core Value
obtain licensure student teaching) but I am 6-7 years of prior teaching
Proficiencies, -This will provide me with
Professional involving myself in the experience in different settings
-Speak with other knowledge and strategies people business as much will help the transition for
Standards for your education for teaching as well as a
content or licensure, as I can because it is what myself and my students.
professionals for their network of other I love.
best advice encouraging and similar -Already knowing some tips
professionals. - I think learning from for connecting with students
people who had a positive will help me foster a safe
impact on you is always a classroom and build strong
great thing to do! relationships.

Assets/Strengths -Understanding my -I need to be -This is necessary for my -By being knowledgeable

content area (social knowledgeable about the History major and to about my subject, my students
Consider: studies) content I will be teaching ensure I am providing my can hopefully better grasp the
●your views so my students can students with the material and know I will give
●recent assessments -Communicating with understand my instruction information they need so I them any extra information
peers, professors, and excel in classes. can best serve them. and resources they need to be
●other people’s views
students, and parents successful.
-I worked on -I think communication is
communication throughout key to all good -Having an open line of
high school and I will relationships so by having communication with students
continue to do so in good communication skills and parents will be beneficial
college so I can clearly I can build better for their learning and create a
express my thoughts to relationships with my good support system for them.
others. students.

Provocations/Growth -Improving my conflict -This is a current gap in my -Once again, I value -If I improve my conflict
management skills skills and I need to communication and always management skills, I can
Consider: improve so I can deal with being able to work out better teach students to deal
-Working on public disagreements with problems, this is why I with conflict and make my
●gaps in speaking/developing a
knowledge/skills students, parents, and want to improve upon my classroom a safe space for an
commanding, but kind coworkers in future jobs conflict management. open dialogue.
●opportunities on the voice
horizon -By becoming a better -I believe that confidence -This will help my students
●what specific actions -Committing time to public speaker, I will is extremely important in stay engaged in my lessons
will help you to learn more about hopefully provide clear and every career and for an and they can better
progress in your role? diversity, equity, and engaging lessons educator that comes from understand what I am asking
inclusion. their voice and presence in of them.
-This will help me better the classroom.
understand certain -As a history teacher, I want to
students’ -I highly value diversity include diverse perspectives
situations/privileges based and respect for other’s in my content so students can
on their identities identities and life learn from the past and no
experiences so this is one feels left out.
something I wasn’t to be
educated on for my
students.

Individual Professional Development Plan Activity Log

(1) (2) (3)

Description of professional development activity Timeframe
completed Connection to your stated objective

1.Spoke with educators about their January 2021-March Knowledge/Skills: learning about educator’s best
professional journey and advice for 2021 advice for teaching and working in the people
teaching. 4 hours total of business so I can implement those things in my
meetings career.

2.Pursuing a deeper knowledge of Entirety of my first year Assets/Strengths: Understanding my content

history area well and receiving an award for my work
6 credit hours total, avg.
shows my strength in this subject, but I am
content areas and earning an award 4 hours of work per
committing to always learning more about
for week.
history so I can provide extra resources and
my hard work. AN/HST 101 and HST 56 hours total knowledge to my future students
216

3.Communication with my boss (at my March and April 2021 Knowledge/Skills: Gaining experience in lesson
daycare) about summer lesson plans planning and field trip communication is a great
6 hours of
and field trips for the school age skill to practice for teaching.
work/meetings
students

4.Attending DEI events at Butler Entirety of my first year Provocations/Growth: Committing more time to
University learning about diversity, equity, and inclusion to
8 hours total
learn how to create a safe space for future
students.
5.Leading a class discussion and Week of March 30th Provocations/Growth: Working on public
focusing on my presentation/speaking speaking/developing a commanding, but kind
4 hours of work
skills voice to engage students in my lessons.

Total PD Hours 78 hours

Notes:

1. Why, What, How

• Why: A statement of why you are in the major or in the class.
• What: A statement of what you want to get out of the major or the class.
• How: A statement of your part in achieving your outcome (you could choose one thing or just make a general statement).
II. Time Frame
Personal Goals: Could involve self-care, wellness, discipline, self-acceptance, or anything else that is outside of the realm of the professional.
Professional Goals: Goals related to what you see as your major, your future profession, or to help you figure out what those might be.
Note: You list short term goals (this semester), midrange goals (next semester), and longer-term goals (next year).
Be specific, particularly with personal goals.
Less is more.
III. Plan Template
• You re-list all the activities from the Time Frame table (Planned Activities),
• And add the following (first column):
Knowledge you might need to accomplish each goal
Strengths you will bring to each goal
Growth: Ways you need to grow for each goal.
• And also:
• The objective for each of your planned activities (column 2)
• How each planned activity connects to your major, your future profession, or to helping you figure out what those might be (column 3).
• How each planned activity connects to your coursework or personal learning (last column). If some or all feel like a repeat of something you have already said
then just refer us to another part of the table (“see column 3”, for example).
IV. Activity Log
• Here is where you record each planned activity: What you did, when you did it and how it connects to the goal you stated.
Check-in: March 19th
Due: April 14th