Description > Professional Growth Plans

Professional Growth Planning is a process of self-directed inquiry focused on what teachers need to learn and do to improve their practice, resulting in improved student learning. In this process, teachers engage in self-assessment, analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data, and the priorities of both the school and district. A teacher’s professional growth plan may be focused on a specific component of The Framework for Teaching (such as improved questioning and discussion skills) or a general aspect of practice (such as learning to use grouping strategies in the classroom.) A valuable professional growth plan is one that engages teachers in significant new learning of a skill related to one’s responsibilities. Preparing a meaningful professional growth plan requires skills of self-assessment and analysis of practice, knowledge of resources available to contribute to one’s learning, and the discipline to engage in learning activities to improve practice. The activities of the plan may be undertaken individually or collaboratively with others; in each case the result is the same: improved classroom practice and enhanced student learning.

Lifelong learning for both educators and students.