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
Jennifer Oh jen0talku@csu.fullerton.edu Multiple Subject Kindergarten
Mentor Email School/District Date
Ramon Godoy godoyr@ebcacdemy.com Edward B. Cole Academy 2/23/2020
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 - Guide students to think critically through use of questioning strategies, T - Facilitates systematic opportunities for students to apply critical
Promoting critical thinking posing/solving problems, and reflection on issues in content. thinking by designing structured inquires into complex problems.
T – Applying T – Innovating
1.5 through inquiry, problem S - Students respond to varied questions or tasks designed to promote S - Students pose and answer a wide-range of complex questions
S – Exploring S - Innovating
solving, and reflection comprehension and critical thinking in single lessons or a sequence of and problems, reflect, and communicate understandings based on in
lessons. depth analysis of content learning.

T- I want to individually ask each

student what their interest is. I
Using T- I know what age range my students
T- T- would also like to pass out a survey
knowledge of represent. I know some of my students’
Emerging Applying to find out this information from my
students to interest and what hobbies they enjoy.
1.1 S- S- students.
engage them in S- Students freely talk about characters
Emerging Applying S- Students will be receiving
learning and sports that they like.
instruction based on books of the
general class
T- I would like to release control to
Promoting social T- I remind my students constantly that my students and have them self-
development our classroom needs to be a safe place of evaluate their behavior in the
within a caring T- learning. T- classroom and out at recess.
community Exploring S- Students are taught social skills on a Integrating S- Students will be sharing with the
2.1
where each S- weekly basis. Students are exposed to S- class and becoming a leader.
student is Exploring books and videos on showing respect. Integrating Students will be holding discussions
treated fairly Students are also asked to model what it on what it means to have a positive
and respectfully. means to show respect in the classroom. classroom environment both in the
classroom and outside during recess.
Section 3: Teacher Leader Inquiry Focus and Planning
Project Title Inquiry Question Project Objective(s)
Does incorporating purposeful play in my Student will show an improvement
classroom have a positive effect on the in social skills and overall classroom
Making Learning Fun (Play- Based Learning)
students in my class? behavior.
Audience for Project How Project Fits into Professional Goals and/or
How Audience Satisfaction will be Assessed
(Who Participates/Who Benefits) Department/School/District Needs
The audience will take a survey and
My Professional Learning Community with Learning Community with teachers
rate how effective my presentation
teachers across grade levels across grade levels
was.
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
NBTS: Proposition 1. Teachers are committed to For this teacher leadership project, I am going to research strategies from
student learning. well-
2. Teacher understand how students known organizations and publications and collect and compile them. I will
develop and learn. collect strategies that can help my student’s learning and attribute to higher
success in the classroom. I also want to collaborate and share my findings with
Teacher Leader Model Standard: Domain 2b. the colleagues at my school and also other teachers I know at different
Facilitates the analysis of student learning data, schools.
collaborative interpretation of results, and
application of findings to improve teaching and
learning.
Inquiry Implementation Plan
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 Discuss Results with
Analyze Results
Milestone 1 Milestone 2 Milestone 3 Mentor
Milestone 4
Milestone 5

3/2-3/6 3/9 3/10-3/20 3/23-3/27 3/27

Take daily
Slowly introduce
Collect anecdotal anecdotal notes
students to the
Identify name and date for notes of classroom Introduce students on what I
various activities
activities. behavior. Focus on to guidelines and notice. Take Discuss findings
that they have.
social skills of children. rules of play-based notes on what I with mentor.
Give students
Record notes of learning. Have hear and see Discuss possible
more choices in
children inside and students come up children doing next steps.
which activities
outside of the with the rules. both inside the
they can choose
classroom. classroom and
from.
outside.
I decided to complete my teacher leader project on several seminars I attended during the Southern
California Kindergarten Conference. These two seminars were based on creating engaging games for
Provide 1-2 sentence children and the effect of play-based learning. My students had no time for play-based learning in my
summary of your teacher classroom. I decided to chunk a portion of the day to schedule in a time for “free choice” in which students
leader project. can play with any activities they would like. I wanted to see if including play based -learning in my daily
schedule would help my students socially and emotionally. I also wanted to research if it would help my
students academically.
I felt that this would be a perfect project for my ILP because I would be launching a new program in my
Summarize process for
classroom. I would analyze the effectiveness of my leadership role by giving my audience a survey on the
analyzing effectiveness of
leadership role. effectiveness of my presentation and as my role as teacher leader. I will also ask my audience to give me
feedback on ways that I could improve as a teacher leader.
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.)
Arrow, Jessica. “How to Use Play for
Learning.” Edutopia, George Lucas
Educational Foundation, 11 Apr. 2019,
www.edutopia.org/article/how-use-play-
learning.

“Play-Based Learning: The Concept of Kids Learning by Playing: Share to Learn.”

This article talks about the different ways Concordia University-Portland, 2 Mar. 2020,
that I can incorporate play based learning blog.sharetolearn.com/classroom-resources/play-based-learning/.
in my classroom. One thing that I would
like to start implementing right away is This article talked about the importance of adding play based learning in the
using “choice time” in my classroom. This classroom. The article says that humans learn best when they are engaged,
article talks about using 30 minutes of have an active role in the learning environment, and are interacting in a
choice time in each literacy block and social context. Children are more successful in learning when they are asked
another 45 minutes at the end of the day. to be in an active, engaged and social environment.
One statement that I was inspired by was,
“creativity and invention stem from some
of the simplest materials, and having
access to these materials can make the
difference in a child’s ability to learn”
(Arrow 2019).

Colleagues (Summarize how two colleagues have addressed similar leadership roles OR the status of the issue at department/school/district level.)
My coworker talked about how important it is to
include play-based learning in the classroom. She
talked about how it was especially important for
During one of the seminars that I attended, the speaker had an entire seminar dedicated
young learners to learn social skills. My coworker also
to play-based learning.
talked about how she used “Fun Friday” in her
classroom but recently combined “Fun Friday” into
her daily centers.
Section 5: Results and Reflection
CSTP Element Initial Revised Evidence/Rational for Rating Suggestions for Moving Forward
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 Rating Rating
To move to INNOVATING level: Consider how to
Promoting critical
Teacher asked questions of analysis and evaluation. increase complexity of task beyond a single lesson so that
thinking through T – Applying T – Integrating
1.5 Students answered questions that included all levels of Bloom’s. Students created their there are continuing opportunities for students to
inquiry, problem S – Exploring S - Integrating
own math problems. engage in inquiry in complex problem. How could you
solving, and reflection
extend lesson into PBL?

I am aware of my students’ strengths and

weaknesses. I am also aware of where my One area that I could improve
students are and what their interest is. Parent - on moving forward is that I
Using Teacher conference has helped me learn about y would like students to start
knowledge T- T- students’ home life. Students also take discussions and for students to
ownership of their learning by knowing how to
of students Emerging Innovating be able to freely add to and
1.1 challenge themselves. My students know that I
to engage S- S- comment on each other’s
expect them to challenge themselves. I divide
them in Emerging Innovating my students into high, medium, and low. My talking points. I would want my
learning students already know which group they are in. students to have a discussion
My high group knows that I have higher where they do not need me for
expectations for them without me having to any support.
remind them.
One area that I would like to
focus on in regards to this CSTP
and so that I can fall in the
innovating category would be
that I would like to implement
Promoting self-reflection and have
social Students are taught from the first day of school students reflect on how they
development that they need to be responsible. Each week, are behaving in regards to
within a we go over a social skill. I always emphasize building to a caring community
T- T- that we are one family and we need to create a
caring of learners in our classroom. I
Exploring Integrating positive learning environment for everyone in
2.1 community would also like to see students
S- S- our class. Students are now at a stage where they
where each step up as classroom leaders
Exploring Integrating are able to model what respectful and good
student is behavior is. Students are also able to and mediate and lead the class
treated fairly reflect on any misbehavior and come up with whenever there is a conflict
and solutions on their own. among different groups of
respectfully. students. I would like students
to be able to implement
problem solving skills without
me having to model for them
what problem solving looks
like.
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
Play based learning is an important part Through this teacher leader project
A key learning that I gained from this Teacher
of children’s learning and development. and the ILP process, I was able to
Leader Project was that there is a lot of research
Incorporating play-based learning in the advocate and tell my school about
on play-based learning. There is significant
classroom will help your classroom play based learning and the
research that play based learning helps children
culture. Students will be able to learn importance of including that in our
grow socially and emotionally.
and practice social skills learned in class. weekly lesson plan.
Mentor Feedback
Directions: The Mentor should Identify strengths and areas of improvement in each of the following areas.
The resources provided by Jennifer about play-based learning was engaging and
Effectiveness of resources designed by Candidate, including effective in educating her colleagues, the members in her PLC, about play-based
presentation, notes, handouts, and other resources. learning. Jennifer’s graphic organizers and visuals aides were relevant and helped
teach the audience about the importance of paly-based learning.
Jennifer portrays strong leadership and teaching skills. Jennifer loves collaborating
Effectiveness of Candidate in teaching and coaching adults.
with her grade level and other teachers at our school. Jennifer also looks for ways
(Refer to Adult Learning Principles in FOTIP Handbook
[https://www.fotip.org/adult-learning-theory.html]. to educate and develop as an educator by constantly researching new ways to
provide students with engaging, effective standard-based instruction.

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 The topic of play-based learning is an effective subject especially in an elementary
Value of topic for audience.
school setting where many of the students are young learners.

Overall delivery by Candidate of the professional

development experience, including audience engagement, Jennifer had to share her presentation by email due to the ongoing pandemic.
pacing, tone, and response to questions.

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.

Unfortunately due to the coronavirus, I was unable to present this project to my PLC group. Since we are doing distance learning and
because the members of my PLC all have different schedules, I was only able to email my PLC group the Power point presentation of
my Teacher Leader Project. I also sent out a brief google survey link after to receive their feedback. The teachers in my PLC group
consist of a 1st grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and kindergarten teacher. All of the teachers stated that they enjoyed reading and looking
through my teacher leader project presentation. One teacher suggested that I could include more activities for play based learning for
the upper grades. All of the teachers in my PLC group said that they would share what they learned about play-based learning to
another colleague they know.

Action Items (some may not be applicable)

For curriculum design, lesson
There is no lesson planning that I had to do for this particular ILP. This ILP was observed throughout a
planning, assessment
planning month long process. I took anecdotal notes in regards to student behavior and classroom environment.
Implementing play based learning has helped build a positive classroom environment in my class. I was able
For classroom practice to witness the change in culture of my class. I also noticed that students were having less behavior
problems in the class.
For teaching English learners,
students with special needs, I will continue to model using graphics and videos when teaching my lessons or introducing new activities to
and students with other my students.
instructional challenges
I will continue to look for different conferences that I could attend in order to gain new information in
For future professional
development
regards to best teaching practices from expert and talented educators. I will also continue to use the
internet to look up scholarly articles that help strengthen me and my teaching practices as a teacher leader.
For supporting
I will continue to reach out to my PLC to collaborate together and share new teaching practices with on a
others/department/
school/district regular basis.

Other N/A
Other Notes and Comments

N/A

Include copy of Google Survey Form assessment tool.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YtHrXIKQIIDlhZp38MV4TweIWl1AkocecVo_XCCBWU8/prefill

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