Fullerton Online Teacher Induction Program

Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) – Teacher Leader Project

Option
Revised 1.1.19
Directions: The ILP should be completed with Mentor input. Complete blue cells prior to classroom implementation. Complete orange cells after POP Cycle is completed. Cells will expand as
needed. When submitting completed ILP to instructor, please include copies of all instructional resources, including Google Survey used for assessment of audience satisfaction.
Section 1: New Teacher Information
New Teacher Email Subject Area Grade Level
Mitchell Nalian [email protected] Social Science 7-8
Mentor Email School/District Date
Valorie Wend [email protected] Loving Savior of the Hills 2/27/2023
Section 2: CSTP Areas of Inquiry
Directions: Identify 2-3 CSTP elements for ILP focus. Use most recent CSTP Assessment for Initial Rating. Identify both teacher and student rating for CSTP 1 and 2. See example.
CSTP Element Initial Rating Description Goal Rating Description
T - Facilitates systematic opportunities for students to apply critical
T - Guide students to think critically through use of questioning strategies,
Promoting critical thinking thinking by designing structured inquires into complex problems.
T – Applying posing/solving problems, and reflection on issues in content. T – Innovating
1.5 through inquiry, problem S - Students pose and answer a wide-range of complex questions and
S – Exploring S - Students respond to varied questions or tasks designed to promote S - Innovating
solving, and reflection problems, reflect, and communicate understandings based on in depth
comprehension and critical thinking in single lessons or a sequence of lessons.
analysis of content learning.

Reflecting on T- Engages in reflection individually

teaching T- Begins to engage in reflection on and with colleagues on the
practice in T- teaching practice individually and with T- relationship between making
6.1
support of Exploring colleagues that is focused on methods Applying adjustments in teaching practice
student to support the full range of learners. and impact on the full range of
learning learners.
T - Sets goals connected to the CSTP
Establishing that are authentic, challenging, and
T- Sets goals connected to the CSTP
professional based on self-assessment.
that take into account self-assessment
goals and
T- of teaching practice. T-
engaging in Aligns personal goals with school
Exploring Applying
6.2 continuous and district goals, and focuses on
S- T- Expands knowledge and skills S-
and purposeful Exploring Applying improving student learning.
individually and with colleagues
professional
through available professional
growth and Selects and engages in professional
development.
development development based on needs
identified in professional goals
Section 3: Teacher Leader Inquiry Focus and Planning
Project Title Inquiry Question Project Objective(s)
Teachers will be given a new tool in
How can incorporating Weebly into which to assess student learning.
Project Based Assessments Using Weebly project-based assessments lead to Teachers will understand the benefits
enhanced student learning? of using Weebly for project-based
assessments.
Audience for Project How Project Fits into Professional Goals
How Audience Satisfaction will be Assessed
(Who Participates/Who Benefits) and/or Department/School/District Needs
The audience will be the teachers and the Over the past few years, especially
Audience satisfaction will be assessed
students will hopefully benefit from it in the due to Covid, our ability to adapt to
via a Google Form.
future. new technologies
Special Emphasis: Teacher Leader Model Standards and NBPTS Core Propositions
Directions: Identify at least one NBPTS and at least one Teacher Leader Model Standards that are the primary focus of your project. Explain how these standards will be incorporated.
Special Emphasis Focus How Special Emphasis will be Incorporated
Proposition 5: Teachers are Members of Proposition 5 and domain 3 will be incorporated into my teacher leader project
Professional Communities. 1 – Teachers due to the nature of the project itself. I will discuss with my colleagues another
Collaborate with other Professionals to Improve avenue in which they can assess students via project-based assessments. This will
School effectiveness. be done on a faculty staff meeting day so that I can introduce to all my colleagues
then.
Domain 3: Promotes Professional learning for
Continuous Improvement
c – Facilitates professional learning among
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Inquiry Implementation Plan
Analyze Results Discuss Results with Mentor
Milestone 1 Milestone 2 Milestone 3
Milestone 4 Milestone 5
Meet with my
View Google
Identify name and date for Begin working on Show presentation Present to all my mentor with my
Forms to see
activities. presentation. to my mentor. colleagues. findings and
results.
debrief.
February 28th March 16th March 29th March 31st April 18th
Provide 1-2 sentence
For my teacher leadership project, I will hold a PD seminar in which I go over the benefit of using Weebly for
summary of your teacher
leader project. project-based assessments.
Summarize process for
I will use a Google Form as a survey to determine how likely they would be to incorporate it into their
analyzing effectiveness of
leadership role. future lessons.
Section 4: Inquiry Research and Exploration
Research/Professional Learning (Identify two articles that have informed inquiry focus. Provide title, URL or citation, and statement of what was learned.)
According to Dr. Ruben, Weebly allows students a medium to include multimodal content
in a project. Most importantly, learners have the ability to customize their own website
Weebly and the SAMR Model
to their own liking.

Creating Science Websites: A website design project

According to Leslie Trimble, using Weebly offers an opportunity for students to be
challenges students' creativity and motivates them to
creative. By creating a website, students can easily apply this skill to other classes and
learn
can be applied to marketing products. The practical aspects of Weebly are transferable
between academic and monetary purposes.
Colleagues (Summarize how two colleagues have addressed similar leadership roles OR the status of the issue at department/school/district level.)
My colleague is a ELA teacher and one issue we discussed was the importance of sharing
resources, especially when it comes to technology. She suggests that I look online for
resources that show might show what a finished product would look like for a student-
ELA Colleague made Weebly website.

Math/ Science Colleague My colleague teaches math and science and we discussed how some PD, when it comes
to technology, can a waste of time. The problem with PD about technology is that we’re
not shown how to model this resource with students. When we had PD on how to use
Flipgrid, but were not shown any student examples of what its supposed to look like.
Section 5: Results and Reflection
Initial Revised
CSTP Element Evidence/Rational for Rating Suggestions for Moving Forward
Rating Rating
Promoting critical To move to INNOVATING level: Consider how to increase
Teacher asked questions of analysis and evaluation.
thinking through T – Applying T – Integrating complexity of task beyond a single lesson so that there are
1.5 Students answered questions that included all levels of Bloom’s. Students created
inquiry, problem S – Exploring S - Integrating continuing opportunities for students to engage in inquiry in
their own math problems.
solving, and reflection complex problem. How could you extend lesson into PBL?

Connecting T- Weebly is a novel resource that can be

subject T- somewhat easily taught.
T- In order to move forward, I will
matter to Applying S- Using Weebly as a project-based
1.3 Integrating need to become more familiar
meaningful, S- assessment grants students the ability to
S-Applying with the nuances of Weebly.
real-life Exploring create a website based on their prior
contexts experiences interacting with websites.
Creating a
rigorous In order to move forward, I will
learning need to anticipate the mistakes
T- I give a graphic organizer, rubric, and
environment T- and errors students might make
T- example of what a Weebly website looks like.
with high Applying on creating a Weebly website.
2.4 Applying S- Students follow along the creation process
expectations S- This will only happen when I
S-Applying of a Weebly website as I model how to create
and Exploring have more classes create
it in real-time.
appropriate websites. I only had one class do
support for it and I am still assessing it.
all students
4.4 Planning T- T- T- I use prior student assessments and ask In order to move forward, I will
instruction Exploring Integrating students what kind of project they would ask my colleagues about their
that S- S- prefer in terms of written or project based. opinions on how they would do
incorporates Exploring Applying S- Students are familiar with how a website this kind of project to see what I
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strategies to
looks and are given the creative freedom to
meet the
interact it with it, given specific parameters could improve upon.
learning
stipulated by the instructions.
needs of all
students.
Special Emphasis (Teacher Leader Model Standards or NBPTS Core Propositions
Key Learnings and New Skills/Knowledge Developed Contribution to
Product(s) Generated
by Teacher Others/Department/School/District
NBPTS My teacher leadership project
Proposition 4: Teachers think systematically generated a project-based assessment
about their practices and learn from experience. that benefit students in their future
Based on information gathered from the careers. Students are living in the 21st
My teacher leadership project
presentation as well as from my mentor, I made century and as a result, they must be
contributed a novel form of
connections between project-based assessments prepared to interact with a more digital
assessment to my colleagues.
and real-world applications. My research showed world. The use of Weebly as a digital
me Weebly can be applied to future job project-based assessment can create
prospects where web design and students who are prepared with 21st
entrepreneurship is valued by students. century skills.
Mentor Feedback
Directions: The Mentor should Identify strengths and areas of improvement in each of the following areas.
My mentor discussed how engaged my audience was and how my presentation
was hands-on. This allowed collaboration and teambuilding. The most important
Effectiveness of resources designed by Candidate, including
presentation, notes, handouts, and other resources.
part of the presentation, according to my mentor, was the “why”. Why use
Weebly as a project-based assessment? I presented a tangible explanation on why
Weebly as a project-based assessment can benefit students for the 21 st century.
According to my mentor, my presentation was informative and presented a novel
Effectiveness of Candidate in teaching and coaching adults. form of assessment. However, I didn’t make it applicable to the younger grades
(Refer to Adult Learning Principles in FOTIP Handbook due to the complexity of using Weebly. I understood that Weebly itself was
[https://www.fotip.org/adult-learning-theory.html]. targeted toward upper grades but I was unsure on how I could apply it to lower
grades.
For most of the upper grades, Weebly as a project-based assessment was a viable
alternative to the traditional project-based assessment. The lower grades didn’t
Value of topic for audience. see much value in it aside from something they could use as a tool to share
information to parents. However, the point is moot due to our use of Gradelink
for communicating with parents.
My mentor discussed that my teacher leadership project was overall good and
Overall delivery by Candidate of the professional thorough. The information about Weebly as a project-based assessment can be
development experience, including audience engagement, applied to the upper grades as a novel form of assessment. The audience was
pacing, tone, and response to questions. engaged and my response to questions was informative. The main issue stated by
my mentor was how it could be applied to lower grades.
Analysis and Summary of Audience Assessment
Directions: Record assessment data into Assessment Data Table (see end of document). Include copies of assessment tool with submission. Include at least one graph in your summary.

As discussed by my mentor and I, the data varied from grade to grade in terms of how likely they would be to use Weebly as a digital
project-based assessment. The leadership project was directed more toward the upper grades because I teach seventh and eighth
grade. Sixth grade and eighth grade showed favorable attitudes toward Weebly aside from on eighth grade teacher. I spoke to her
about it since we’re in the same department and she told me that it was too much technology for her work with and it would be
difficult for her to troubleshoot any issues when she struggles with it herself. I then realized that older teachers may struggle with
utilizing Weebly as a digital assessment as opposed to the younger teachers who are more familiar and comfortable with working with
technology.

Action Items (some may not be applicable)

For curriculum design, lesson For an assessment, Weebly acts as a novel form of assessment that can benefit students in a 21 st century
planning, assessment world. Weebly as a digital project-based assessment has a real-world application for students who have
planning entrepreneurial desires because it allows them to create a website that can be engineered for a business.
In terms of classroom practice, it can be difficult to implement for the first time because there is a learning
For classroom practice curve that students need to overcome. I recently used Weebly in my eighth grade class a project-based
assessment. Students made a website about an American president instead of writing a traditional paper.
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 For teaching English learners, A Weebly website assessment can be modified for students with IEPs and 504s. When I began the eighth
students with special needs, grade project, I chunked down into smaller parts. Students were given a week to complete two web pages.
and students with other This allowed me to view what they were turning in to ensure their website was on schedule and done
instructional challenges
correctly.
In the future, I could present to my colleagues the results of my Weebly assignment that my eighth grade
For future professional students have completed. Moreover, I would be able to show my colleagues how to troubleshoot through
development likely issues student may experience. I believe Weebly has genuine merit that can prepare students with
21st century skills.
For supporting
others/department/ N/A
school/district

Other N/A
Other Notes and Comments

Include copy of Google Survey Form assessment tool.

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