University of La Verne

Individual Development Plan (IDP)

Candidate: Edith Macias University Supervisor: Diana Pipersky

Credential Received: Multiple Subject __x_ Single Subject____ Education Specialist____
Date Student Teaching Completed ___________
Step 1 Directions: Based on evidence gathered during your teacher preparation program, use the first two columns to describe your strengths and goals
in relation to the following.
Field Experience Strengths Goals
TPE Domain
(Student Teaching or Intern Program) (Started with your University Supervisor and
completed with your Induction Support Provider)
A: Making Subject Matter During my student teaching, I was fortunate enough to co-teach and develop My goal is to incorporate my teaching style into
Comprehensible to Students many lessons. I found that to make the subject matter comprehensible I had to every lesson and to modify it as needed. I think it
get to know the students. Learning happens when students understand and can is important to teach based on students’ interests
relate to it. One of my strengths was being able to understand students’ and change a lesson consistently to meet the
interests, learning styles, and physical/emotional needs. This allowed me to diverse needs of each class. I plan to give students
develop lessons that students were engaged in. Another strength I have is being interest surveys monthly to guide my lesson
persistent with academic language. Students need to learn academic vocabulary planning. I will like to create daily class building
so, I focused on making sure my lessons used academic language repeatedly. strategies to get to know the students and further
When teaching ELA concepts, I chose books that students would enjoy. I created understand their needs.
themes to make everything cohesive and easy to follow. Furthermore, I do a
Lastly, my goal is to collaborate with other
great job of breaking up the lessons and refer to previous learning during a new
teachers. This would allow me to hear other
lesson.
strategies that might also work in my classroom.
B: Assessing Student Learning My strength in regards to assessing student learning is that I was able to assess
My goal is to integrate technology into student
regularly throughout the lesson. To assess student learning, I often had students assessment to better meet the needs of the 21-
give me thumbs up or thumbs down. This allowed me to quickly assess if century learner. I believe that assessing should be
students were understanding and following along during the lesson. I used done in various forms. I want to add games and
breakout rooms for students to share what they learned with their peers. I also find tools that students enjoy and allow me to
used the students’ environment and resources around them to help me assess. monitor their progress. I know there are many
In a lesson where we were discussing shapes, I had students look in their rooms apps like Seesaw and Kahoot, however, during my
or space around them to find objects with the shapes we were learning about. student teaching I did not utilize these tools.
Another form of assessment I practiced was having students share their work Furthermore, I would like to use rubrics to make
with me. For example, in ELA instruction we would read a story and draw a my assessments specific to the objectives.
picture of what we read. Working in small groups I called on each student to
share their drawings and explain them. This allowed me to see if the students
understood the story. I was able to use the information gathered from the
assessments to reevaluate my lesson and modify as much as needed. I learned
that assessing can happen quickly and must be done so regularly.

C: Engaging and During the time I spent working with students, I developed strength in My goal is to find more ways to build class unity
Supporting Students in relationship building. I made sure the students felt comfortable and safe. I and establish more personal relationships with
Learning
focused on being nurturing and making myself easily accessible. Once students students while remote learning or in person.
knew that they were safe and could ask questions without being scared, I found When I have my class I plan to have a weekly
that engagement increased. Also, I gave praise to help build students’ confidence lunch with them. Students can communicate with
and would frequently tell them how proud I am of them. Remote learning has each other during this time and establish
been a struggle for some students, they are young and need a lot of support. I relationships. I will encourage students to
was great at making sure that students were okay and provide help as needed. collaborate and create support groups.
D: Planning When I was lesson planning, my strength consisted of translating objectives and A goal I have within this TPE is getting familiarize
Instruction and standards to meet them while having a student-centered mindset. I made sure with the minuscule tasks that need to be
Designing Learning
Experiences for that I explained to students the purpose of why we're going to do something and incorporated into instruction. At the beginning of
Students the outcome. Also, I found that cultivating consistency allowed students to student teaching, I overlooked many of these
flourish. They thrived when we did things in a routine. I am good with keeping a things. I learned quickly that young students need
routine and staying organized. I made sure that all my materials were organized help with fine motor skills. Teaching students how
and I was prepared for the day. Being prepared allowed me to focus on the to hold a pencil and scissors is something that I
students and not be worried about what the next task is going to be. I was disregarded and did not think to teach. I plan to
present and responsive to students' comments. I elaborated on the information be observant so that students’ learning
the students shared with me and turned it into learning moments. experience does not derail from something that
can be caught early on.

E: Creating and To create an effective learning environment, my strength was establishing a My goal is to integrate a growth mindset into my
Maintaining supportive learning culture. I created a strong rapport by referring to students as classroom. By providing support and a growth
Effective
Environments for friends. When I called on students to share I often said things like “Can you help mindset modality I will be able to cultivate a
Student Learning our friend _____?” “Our friend ____ had this idea can you add to his/her idea?” I classroom where students are optimistic about
encouraged students to help each other. I wanted to emphasize that we all think learning. I plan to have growth mindset posters
differently. It is important to share and combine our ideas. around my classroom and develop growth
mindset strategies as a class regularly.
F: Developing as a I have seen huge growth within myself during my student teaching. In the My goal is to continue to learn. I want to self-
Professional Educator
beginning, I was insecure and questioned my capabilities. However, this assess as much as I can and continue to find ways
experience allowed me to get the confidence I needed. I learned to constantly to develop as an educator.
reevaluate myself and reflect on ways to improve. Ultamelty, I learned that
I plan to stay up to date on teaching strategies
learning is ongoing for both the student and the teacher.
and tools.

Step 2 Directions: Meet with both your University Supervisor and Site-Supervisor to get input on your strengths and goals. Reflect on supervisor feedback and
evidence gathered during your teacher preparation program that identified your areas of strength.

I got a lot of constructive feedback from both my Site-Supervisor and University Supervisor. I reviewed my strengths with both of them and they
confirmed that they saw me working on those skills effectively. My University Supervisor mentioned that she sees the importance of shifting a class into a
growth mindset regime. She stated that the power of yet is influential among students. I am glad she shared this with me and can not wait to try it out for
myself. Both my supervisors shared with me that learning is ongoing and that in my career I will have to continue to learn to grow as an educator.

Step 3 Directions: Reflect on supervisor feedback and evidence gathered during your teacher preparation program that identified needed growth areas.

Areas that I need to work on are helping students with things that are not thought of with lesson planning and extending lessons for students. I spoke
with my on-site supervisor and she mentioned that when teaching kindergarten we need to take a step back and help them with fine motor skills. They need
help with social and emotional learning. Students can benefit from having a strong supportive teacher. I often found myself forgetting to remind students how
to hold a pencil and scissors. These foundational skills are very important and I recognize that now. Furthermore, I need to work on making sure that I
challenge those students that need it. I need to plan for students that finish early and provide them with an opportunity to flourish in their learning. I will
continue to look for ways to improve these areas of weakness.
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