Professional Development Plan (PDP – Part 1):
Student Name: Mariam Mohammed ID #: H00292379
Introduce the PDP setting:
Professional Development Plan (PDP) is an important step that teachers or even student
teachers prepare and follow and that after being evaluated or in case of having a drawback in
a specific skill. PDP is identified as individual career aspirations and progressions. Through
which there is a description of the goals and needs that teachers wish to achieve and what
they are going to do to develop their skills and finally achieve their goals (Guzder, 2019).
That shows the great importance of PDP in developing and improving performance and that
all is reflected in students’ academic achievement.
Justification of PDP
PDP is an effective plan through which teachers identify their weak points and then set a plan
for how to manage such issues effectively. In turn, there is great importance for such use as
planning goals help in identifying some areas of concern and then to work on how to improve
them. Besides, the main reason behind the PDP is developing skills, methods of teaching, and
how to promote our abilities after having an evaluation. Moreover, that aims at conveying
high expectations at students and manages them to achieve high levels of success
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students to follow the rules.
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students to behave well.
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motivate students to learn
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educational games. and even to be a constant
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MCT and MST
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(after their science books and write about their The activity is talking
implementati favourite animals. After they finish the about each student's
on) teacher will ask 5 students to talk about their favourite animal. There
favourite animals for the whole class. will be a differentiation
between students
’thinking through writing
and talking about their
favourite animal.
In this activity, students
had fun while they write,
think, and talk about their
favourite animal. There
was no instruction from
the teacher that they
should only talk about a
specific animal. With this
activity, the students were
free to choose and explain
about their animals.
After the explanation, the
teacher will be able to
know the students' levels
through their explanation
of what they have written.
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motivational techniques Reflection
Action 3: More strategies to be followed as:
Using these strategies
Providing students with educational will motivate students
games. to learn and that can be
Observing other teachers as my achieved and even to
MCT and MST be a constant process.
Praising students’ achievements
Class Dojo
Using visual aids
Stickers
Desired time Along the whole semester to be a constant
frame: behaviour.
Any support My MCT and MST
needed Attractive activities
Games activities
Data - Student’s work.
collection
tools to be
used to
provide
evidence of
the success of
the action
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(after change the teaching
implementati routine at least weekly.
on) Because students will
be bored and this will
not motivate them to
study or focus. When
the teacher changes the
nature of the teaching,
such as, putting a game
about the lesson,
through the game
students will enjoy to
playing the game and
understand what the
lesson is talking about,
I motivate the students by changing the routine
but in another way.
for how they are thought so I put for them
When students started
online quiz instead of using the book.
solving problems
through an online quiz,
I found that students
focus more when the
weekly routine
changes. After students
finish completing the
online quiz, the
students send their
mark to the chat box.
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with each Supporting
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during the maintenance
lesson tasks and roles
are important
in group
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Development
Target
Establish group interactions.
(aligned with
TP
competency)
Goal 3: Encouraging students to learn through
motivational techniques Reflection
Action 3: More strategies to be followed as:
Using these strategies
will let the students to
Initiating Discussions
work together as a
Clarifying points
group and let them to
Summarizing
discuss and give their
opinions.
Challenging assumptions
Providing or researching information
Reaching a consensus.
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Desired time Along the whole semester to be a constant
frame: behaviour.
Any support My MCT and MST
needed Attractive activities
Games activities
Data
collection
tools to be
used to
provide
evidence of
the success of - Students answers.
the action - Students work.
Evidence After finishing the lesson, I display a question When the teacher poses
(after about what I taught them, and I gave them 1 a question about the
implementati minute to think and remember what is the lesson that was taught,
on) answer. this shows the teacher
who was focused on
the lesson and who not.
Also, there is time for
students to think and
remember what the
lesson was or what the
answer was.
By asking the teacher
to the students, the
students were given
time to think about the
answer. Some students
started typing the
answers into the
chatbox for the teacher
to check.
References
Guzder, K. (2019). Professional Development Plan for Teachers . Retrieved from
https://www.highspeedtraining.co.uk/hub/professional-development-plan-for-
teachers/
Professional Development Plan for Teachers. (2015). Retrieved from https://bsd405.org/wp-
content/uploads/2015/07/Board-Presentation-PD-Plan-2015-08-25.pdf
Staff, T. (2020, Aug 21). 20 Collaborative Learning Tips And Strategies For Teachers.
Retrieved Oct 8, 2020, from teachthought:
https://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/20-collaborative-learning-tips-and-
strategies/
