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Practicum
I
Practicum II
Internship

Edison State College

Education Department

Pre-service Teacher Professional Development Plan

for:

Courtney Denis

Date: 11/22/14

Directions: Your Professional Development Plan (PDP) serves as a guide toward continuous improvement during your
teacher preparation program. List specific competencies, skills and dispositions you would like to improve on this
form, using input from FEAP evaluation reviewed with your mentor teacher, feedback from your faculty steward, and
other sources you deem reliable.
What do I want to improve?
(list specific improvement goals)
I will improve my class understanding of directions
before the students start the activity.

I will improve my classroom management during whole

group instruction.

How will I achieve this?

(list specific steps you will take)
1. Have students repeat directions
before starting the activity.
2. Ask for more feedback from my
mentor
3. Keep track of how many students
ask for directions after each
lesson.
4. Visit ten different students
during the activity to make sure
there is understanding among
students.
1. Be consistent with my mentors
behavior plan.
2. Become more aware when
students become loud or off
task.
3. Ask the mentor if I can give
students points, coins, etc. when
they are doing a good job or

When will I
achieve this?
May 2015

May 2015

What do I want to improve?

(list specific improvement goals)

I will improve time management while teaching a lesson

to fit within the time constraints.

How will I achieve this?

(list specific steps you will take)
have them clip, flip, or pull
reminders when they misbehave.
4. Have mentor keep track how
many times students
misbehaved and I did not stop
the behavior.
1. Make note of when I begin the
lesson.
2. Break down my lesson plan into
certain time limits.
3. Ask my mentor to give me a
signal if I am reaching my time
limit.
4. Look at the clock and my watch
during independent practice to
see how long I can give the
students to finish the activity.

When will I
achieve this?

May 2015

UPDATE:
Goal 1- I did achieve this goal this semester, but I believe it was because I was in an older grade so the students were able to
understand the directions the first time they were given to them. I did receive more feedback from my mentor and she did give me
control of classroom and only had to step in once. I was also able to circulate the classroom a lot more during the lesson and was not
with one student who needed more direction during the lesson.
Goal 2- I need to work on this goal more. I was able to keep the students under control but they would still talk during the lesson. My
mentor teacher did not have a behavior management plan or a reward system to use. My mentor did say that I need to work on my
teacher voice and would let me know when I needed to get the class in check during the lesson.
Goal 3- I did achieve this goal this semester. I was able to keep in the time given for my lessons. Since it was an older grade they had a
schedule that I needed to follow. I broke down one lesson into time limits but something came up and I stopped doing that. I instead
used the teachers stop watch that the whole class could see during their group work. My mentor would let me know when to start

wrapping the lesson up before I feel into their routine. I would like to keep my time management goal to improve on because I feel
that in a lower grade it will be harder to achieve this goal that in a higher grade.

Practicum I
Practicum
II
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Internship

FLORIDA SOUTHWESTERN STATE COLLEGE

Pre-service Teacher Professional Development Plan for:

What do I want to improve?

(list specific improvement goals)

I will improve my classroom management during

instruction.

I will improve my accommodations for English

Language Learners in the classroom.

Courtney Denis

How will I achieve this?

(list specific steps you will take)

1. I will learn to use my teacher voice more

during instruction.
2. I will have students understand that the
attention getter I use means that they stop
what they are doing and look at the teacher.
3. Be consistent with mentors behavioral plan.
4. Become more aware when the class becomes
off task or too loud.
1. I will learn some basic phrases and words of
common ELL students languages.
2. I will research more fun ways to adapt my
lesson for the ELL to understand and

Date:

April 21, 2015

When will I achieve

this?

December 2015

December 2015

What do I want to improve?

(list specific improvement goals)

I will improve on my time management.

How will I achieve this?

(list specific steps you will take)

When will I achieve

this?

participate.
3. I will not resort to given the ELL a language
buddy for all lessons.
4. I will have more translated material on hand
for the ELL student.
1. I will use a timer for different parts of my
December 2015
lesson that students may take longer than
needed.
2. I will monitor my start time and when I would
like to transition into the next part of the
lesson or end the lesson.
3. I will ask my mentor to keep track of the time
and give me a signal when I have five minutes
left.
4. Ask students how much more time they need
when the lesson is almost over. I can see if it
needs to be a two day lesson or run over a
little bit.

UPDATE:
Goal1-I believe I have effectively learned what my teacher voice is and how to use it in the classroom setting. I have followed my
mentor behavioral plan during internship with the clip chart and every student understood the consequences of clipping down and
rewards for clipping up. I still need a little bit of work with using the attention getter and waiting for all the students attention before
moving on. With being in the classroom for 14 weeks I was able to feel and hear when the students were getting too loud and off task
and was able to bring the students back to attention before it would get out of hand.
Goal 2- I did learn a few basic phrases, mainly greetings and listen but I did not use them in the classroom that often since both ELL
are close to exiting the program. I did not have much translated material because of the students ability to understand English and
needing to practice reading and speaking English. When the students were having problems with understanding they received extra
support from the teacher and Esol para when available.

Goal 3- I have gotten much better at time management. I had to get use to carrying my phone on me so I can have alarms set
throughout the day to go off before transitions. My mentor would let me know when I was getting close to time and when I went over.
The students were told to give signal for more time before moving on to the next activity or problem. There was also 15 minutes
between lunch and recess where I was able to help the students needing more help with a subject or lesson taught.

Practicum I
Practicum II
Internship
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Florida Southwestern State College

Education Department

Pre-service Teacher Professional Development Plan

for:

Courtney Denis

Date: 11-28-15

Directions: Your Professional Development Plan (PDP) serves as a guide toward continuous improvement during your
teacher preparation program. List specific competencies, skills and dispositions you would like to improve on this
form, using input from FEAP evaluation reviewed with your mentor teacher, feedback from your faculty steward, and
other sources you deem reliable.
What do I want to improve?
(list specific improvement goals)
I will improve accommodations for English Language
Learners.

How will I achieve this?

(list specific steps you will take)
1. I will work with the ESOL
paraprofessional to help create
lesson accommodations that
would help the ELL student.
2. Give ELL students extra time in
the morning to work with the
teacher to help with homework
problems.
3. Research ELL programs given in
the school to help the ELL
students learn.
4. Create learning games to be
used in centers that would help
the ELL student learn and speak
English.

When will I
achieve this?
May 2016

What do I want to improve?

(list specific improvement goals)
I will improve on students understanding of
expectations.

I will improve on using extra time during lessons to

improve students learning.

Status update:

How will I achieve this?

(list specific steps you will take)
1. Have clearly defined procedures
in place for everything in the
classroom.
2. Give teacher expectations at the
beginning of the lesson.
3. Give directions while having all
students attention before the
lesson.
4. Give expectations before use of
manipulatives, supplies, and
crafts. Have students repeat
expectations and understand the
consequences of misuse.
1. Over plan while creating lesson
plans.
2. Do not resort to reading AR
books when there is extra time.
3. Have extra activities or
worksheets that coincide with
the lessons taught that day.
4. Have a chapter book to read for
entertainment to the class.

When will I
achieve this?
May 2016

May 2016