Professional Growth Goals Jordan Kosowan

Professional Growth Plan
Name: Jordan Kosowan PS III Spring 2023
Improve on classroom management skills through fostering relationships in the

Goal 1: classroom.
Related 1. Fostering Effective Relationships: A teacher builds positive and

TQS productive relationships with students, parents/guardians, and peers and
others in the school and local community to support student learning.
- a. acting consistently with fairness, respect, and integrity.
- b. demonstrating empathy and a genuine caring for others.
2. Engaging in Career-Long Learning: A teacher engages in career-long
professional learning and ongoing critical reflection to improve
teaching and learning.
- a. collaborating with other teachers to build personal and collective
professional capacities and expertise.
- b. actively seeking out feedback to enhance teaching practice.
- c. building capacity to support student success in inclusive,
welcoming, caring, respectful and safe learning environments.
- d. seeking, critically reviewing and applying educational research to
improve practice.
Strategies Indicators and Measures of Achievement

- Getting to know students’ better - Students listen and follow
and forming relationships. instruction.
- Attention grabbing techniques. - Students act respectfully and
- Confidence and finding my kindly towards me and others.
teacher voice. - Students are aware of
- Reinforcing positive expectations, routine, and rules,
behaviours. and act accordingly.
- Having clear expectations, - Students’ do their tasks to the
creating routine, and having best of their ability.
students know what to expect
from me when I am teaching.
- Always acting calm,
consistently, and fair.
- Using preventative strategies
such as separating certain
students’ having some students’
sit closer to me etc. to maximize
listening.
Time Line Resources

- Ideally, I would like my
classroom management to have - https://
significantly improved by mid- www.prodigygame.com/main-
February, but overall, this is en/blog/classroom-
something that is continually management-strategies/
worked on so my timeline will - https://www.hmhco.com/blog/
be until the end of this classroom-management-
practicum in April. strategies-for-elementary-
teachers
Continually reflect upon lessons and teaching method to grow and improve,
Goal 2: while increasing engagement and working to meet the needs of individual
students.
Related 2. Engaging in Career-Long Learning: A teacher engages in career-long
TQS professional learning and ongoing reflection to improve teaching and
learning.
- b. actively seeking out feedback to enhance teaching practice.
- c. building capacity to support student success in inclusive,
welcoming, caring, respectful and safe learning environments.
- d. seeking, critically reviewing and applying educational research to
improve practice.
3. Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge: A teacher applies a

current and comprehensive repertoire of effective planning, instruction,
and assessment practices to meet the learning needs of every student.
a. planning and designing learning activities that:

- incorporate a range of instructional strategies, including the
appropriate use(s) of digital technology, according to the context,
content, desired outcomes, and the learning needs of students.
- Are varied, engaging and relevant to students
- Build student capacity for collaboration
- Consider student variables, including demographics, social and
economic factors, maturity, relationships amongst students, prior
knowledge and learning, cultural and linguistic background, second
language learning, health and wellbeing, emotional and mental
health and physical, social and cognitive ability
b. using instructional strategies to engage students in meaningful
learning activities based on:
- an understanding of students’ backgrounds, prior knowledge, and
experiences
- a knowledge of how students develop as learners
Strategies Indicators and Measures of Achievement

- I have begun to do daily
reflections rather than weekly - By reflecting often, I will find
reflections so I will continue to what works best for my students
do this to reflect on my lessons and try different things – which
- Reflect on feedback from both will improve engagement. This
my teacher mentor and will also increase my
university consultant, and work confidence.
to incorporate feedback and try - Students are more engaged and
new things. stay on topic/task.
- Ask students for feedback and - All students are progressing in
observe how they are their work at their own pace and
responding to different lessons. based on their own learning
- For engagement I will ask open needs.
ended questions, ask students’
what their previous knowledge
is about a topic, encourage
discussion, and have students
explain things to other students.
- To help meet the needs of
different students I can include
a variety of activities in my
lesson to accommodate for
different learners and learners
that are at different parts in their
learning. I can do individual,
group, or partner work. I can
evaluate students in different
ways (for example some of my
students are great at writing and
can show their learning that way
while others participate more in
discussion to show their
learning).
Time Line Resources
The timeline for this goal will be until - https://

the end of the practicum. Reflecting and www.teachthought.com/
growing in my teaching practice will be a pedagogy/ways-to-be-a-more-
career long goal, but I will continue to reflective-teacher/
reflect daily within this practicum. - https://
teachingcommons.stanford.edu/
explore-teaching-guides/
foundations-course-design/
learning-activities/increasing-
student-engagement
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Professional Growth Plan

Name: Jordan Kosowan PS III Spring 2023

Improve on classroom management skills through fostering relationships in the

Related 1. Fostering Effective Relationships: A teacher builds positive and

Strategies Indicators and Measures of Achievement

Time Line Resources

3. Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge: A teacher applies a

a. planning and designing learning activities that:

Strategies Indicators and Measures of Achievement

The timeline for this goal will be until - https://

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