Professional Development

Plan

 Student Name: Huda Hamad Owaidha

Ali Al Ahbabi
 Student ID: H00377395
 Course: EPC4406
 Instructor: Dr. Aysha Al Shamsi
 nstitution: Higher Colleges of
Technology.
 Table on content

Content Page Number

Induction 2-3
Goal 1 4-6
Goal 2 7-8
Goal 3 9-12
Goal 4 13-15
Goal 5 16- 20
Conclusion 21
Reference 23

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 Introduce my Professional evelopment plan (PDP)

DPD assists you in developing a well-structured strategy and schedule for reaching your
objectives. You can readily identify gaps in experience, knowledge, and abilities and the
actions that will be required to fill them.

It's critical that you examine your strengths and weaknesses and devise a strategy to improve
them both. You'll need to focus on what will either help you perform better in your present
career or prepare you for your future move.

As much as I focus on my goals and put my effort to reach these are specific goals this will
absolutely help me to be successful in my career and prove myself and my abilities and my
skills.

Nathan Rawlins (2020, 25), talk about how the PDP could help to identify the area of
improvement and helps also to set goals and have a clear vision of what you want to reach
also how could you organize your thoughts and actions. While I am reading his article, I like
the quote he said about the PDP “A clear roadmap for reaching goals” which match my own
definition of PDP.

After reading these two articles that lead me to ask myself what I want as professional
development plan will be, how can I improve myself by using PDP, and how is this going to
improve myself and my skills.

Justify your professional development goals for this semester.

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I have written this professional development plan to help me to develop my skills as a teacher. I
have written five goals. The first is to motivate students to learn. Using different strategies can
help achieve this goal. Secondly, time management, finish my lesson requirements on time. use
formative assessment. Thirdly, apply different management strategies to improve student
behaviors. Lastly, improve my communication skills, by knowing the school staff, attending
meeting or school events. Moreover, I explain in each skill what the actions that I will follow to
achieve my goals, support that I need and data that could help me.

To justify my PDP goals for this semester I want to reach five goals.

1- First goal is to be more social and collaborative not only with my MST but also with the
other teachers in the school. I sit this goal because I need to have a good relationship with
all the teachers, and I need to consider their thoughts and their ideas of teaching so I can
learn from them, and I can benefit and gain more experience.

2- My second goal is to improve my integration lessons. Integration is a very creative ways

to teach and it’s going to benefit the teacher and the student. According to Bredekamp, S.
& Rosegrant, T. (Eds). (1992) he said “An integrated curriculum allows children to pursue
learning in a holistic way, without the restrictions often imposed by subject boundaries.”
To reach the school I’m going to discuss and share my lesson plans with my MST and
ask her feedback and after each lesson I gave and discuss with her how can I integrate to
subject and one lesson. 75 % of the students will be able to work and participate on my
integration lessons by the end of the term, because they are familiar with integration
lesson with their teacher.

3- My third goal is use different strategies to motivate the students in the class and create
fun strategies to teach. 90% of the students will be able to reflect positively with the
motivation during the lesson till the end. This goal I personally see it as one of my
strengths because I like to create fun activities for the students and at the beginning of the
class, I always look for an interesting and fun hook to start my lesson with. U.S.
Department of State.Gov website that created by some teachers from the U.S said in their
website that “Having fun while learning also helps students retain information
better because the process is enjoyable and memorable.” U.S. Department of State.
(October 13, 2021)

4- My fourth goal is time management, I want to start my lesson at the right time and
divided my time between the opening, centers, and closing very well so the student can
benefit from the beginning till the end of the class. To reach this goal I have to practice
multiple times also I have an Apple Watch which can help me to set a timer at the
beginning of each part of the lesson. 90% students will be able to follow the rules of the
class.

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 5- My last goal and the most important goal for me at the moment is classroom management
and by I mean managing the whole class started from the students behavior which is the
main point to me for classroom management because if I can manage the student
behavior very well I can have a small lesson where everyone in the class can learn and
benefit and to reach this goal I should have mixture of strict and teacher and also friendly
teacher with the students so I had to build a good relationship with them but also I need to
make sure that the students behave well when it’s learning time.

Goal 1: Social and Collaborative

Previously stated development needs

Skills you
Personal
personally
MCT development Needs of the setting
MST recommendation know you need interest
recommendation to develop
Well
Start conversations communication.
with other teachers. I will participate at every
Initiative and school activity I can. I will
Initiate to offer
communication. help. initiate an offer help for
Ask her for any advice teachers.
or help.
Ask questions.

Concise Reflections & actuality

Goal To be more ccollaborative and have a From day one I greet the
good communication skills with the principle of the school Miss
teachers. Mariam Al Dahari and she took
me to my class that I will be
teaching and introduce me to my
MST.

I had a grate communication

with my MST from day one and
I share all the aspects and the
goals I’m looking for in this

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 teaching practice and my MST
collaborating very well with me
and she offers me all the help I
needed.

I was very initiative and

collaborate in the schools event
and teacher meetings while I
was in Al Jood KG.
Action  Show teamwork skills. I had some difficulties in my
 Initiated in school activities. teaching practice however I take
 Shared my contact such as the full responsibility of my
my phone number and email situation and I show a good
address what the teachers. personality and positive
 Ask for advices and ask thoughts and participants which
questions. help me to have a good
 Show good participation. relationship with my MST
 Be positive and share beside the good communication
positive thoughts. between us.
 create a better understanding
and break down any walls of
pre-judgemental or mistrust.
Sherrie Campbell (October 5,
2017.)

Describe the frame Semester 7-8 Ongoing goal every semester.

Any support needed  MST. My MST provide me and help
 MST advice. me with everything I needed and
 Al Jood Kg Teachers. answer my questions she also
gave me good advices that could
help me in the future as a
teacher.
Data collection tools to be  MST contact information. The data collection I had was
used to provide evidence  Kg teachers contact my MST contact information
of the success of the information. which help me to keep in touch
action  contact information of Al with her.
Jood Kg Administrator Miss Since day one I ask Miss Nawal
Nawal. a copy of the school event
 School events schedule. schedule and the curriculum of
 Join the school telegram the whole month so that can
channel. help me with planning for my
lessons.
Evidence (after Teachers interaction.
implement ation)

Documents for this goal

1- Certificate from the school

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 2- The principle, My MST and Other Kg teacher emails/phone numbers.
3- I did the organize the garden outside for plants day with my MST this week, the
following week we will take the kids and plant outside ( I will update the pictures
in my PDP).

Goal 2: Integration lessons.

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Previously stated development needs
Skills you
personally Personal
MCT know you development Needs of the setting
MST recommendation need to interest
recommendation
develop
Keep her in touch and
show her my lesson Creativity. Create a plan that include two
or more subjects in the lesson
plans before Planning. should be simple for the
implementing the Well planning. students.
lesson.

Concise Reflections & actuality

Goal Integration lesson. My goal is to have a good
integration lesson with kids
activities that can help the
students to learn and benefit
them.
Action  Observe my MST To reach this goal I did observe
lessons and see how she my MST lessons and I see how
integrate. she did her class routine. I check
 Shared my lesson plans her lesson plan to see how she
with my MST. plan and how she sort the groups
 Ask MST for advices. by which levels.
 I need my MST
feedback and avoid the After that I plan for my lesson
mistakes. and the activities then I share
 Create a good integrated my lesson planned with my
lesson with good MST and had her feedback.
activities to engage the
students. For the activities I was focusing
 Familiarise students on two main things the first one
with different learning is to have a creative activities to
styles. (Jaclyn Aldworth engage the students and the
(2018, March 12) second thing is to follow the
usual routine like start with the
date and the weather then review
counting numbers then I start the
new lesson.
Describe the frame Semester 7-8 Ongoing goal.
Any support needed  MST previous In order to achieve this goal, I
integration lesson plan. did observe my MST and take
 MST notes about her notes while she is teaching to
integration lesson. have a clear vision of her
 Example of the classroom routine.
activities the MST had.
My MST have a good amount of

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 different activities so while I
was observing and taking notes I
also focus on her activities and
how can I came up with good
activities such as hers.
Data collection tools to be used  Students work. The data collection tools I had
to provide evidence of the  MST evaluation. for this goal Was my MST
success of the action  Pictures of students PowerPoint slides and the way
work. she organize her lesson.
 The lesson PowerPoint.
The other thing is the student
work so I can’t tell if they
actually understand the lesson
and find the activities easy to
understand and take some
pictures of their work
Evidence (after implement Students final work.
ation)

Documents for this goal

1- My lesson plan: In my lesson plan I Integrate Math, science, and English.
(my lesson plan link).
2- I present my lesson in PowerPoint. (My PowerPoint link).

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 Goal 3: Different strategies to motivate the students.

Previously stated development needs

Skills you
Personal
personally
MCT development Needs of the setting
MST recommendation know you need interest
recommendation to develop
Creative. Good relationship
with the students.
Trying new strategies I will create behavior chart
Encouraging. for the students to encourage
to motivate the Hook the students them staying behavior during
students. attention to the the lesson.
Positive rewords to behave
reinforcement. well.

Concise Reflections & actuality

Goal Different strategies to motivate the My MST advise me to try using
students during the lesson. new motivation strategies for the
students instead of stickers
because the students used to it
which leads me to do two
behaviour charts for the two
different classes.
Action  Use visual art activates. I did two behaviour chart for the
 Use songs and videos. two classes.
 Be inspirational. (Luke
Wilcox, NBC June 4, 2018) For KG2A I did the behavior
 Develop meaningful and chart based on the class
respectful relationships with environment because the Arabic
the students. (Luke Wilcox, teacher use a lot of cultural
NBC June 4, 2018) pictures therefore I include kilter
 Establish high expectations with their behavior chart.
and establish clear goals.
(Luke Wilcox, NBC June 4, For KG2C there was no specific
2018). theme they follow so I did the
 Positive Competition. (MD ice cream behavior chart where
AKBAR ALI JUL 3, 2020) the students get a stick of ice
cream every time they did well.
 Give students a sense of
control. Teach Thought Staff
These behavior charts we are
(2021, September 20).
very affective way more than I
 Use positive competition.
thought the students where hide
 Offer rewards, class dojo and encouraging to answer and
points. participate in the class.

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  Use positive language and
encourage the students.

Describe the frame Semester 7-8 Ongoing goal.

Any support needed  My MST dividing plan for the
student’s groups.
 Ask the MST If there is any
special need behavior for the
students.
Data collection tools to  Observe the students level In my first day I ask my MST
be used to provide during my teaching practice. about the students level and
evidence of the success  Ask the MST since day one of their behaviour because it’s very
of the action the students level chart. important to know their
 Customise the activities based behaviour from their MST
on the students level emerging because she knows them better.
developing and master.
Then I did observe their
behavior in the class take some
notes if needed.

Which helps me later to divide

the groups when it’s activity
time.
Evidence (after  Chick the student’s
implement ation) performance and behavior
during and after the lesson.
 MST feedback.

Documents for this goal

1- Ice cream chart in KG2C.

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 2- Me, my MST and the Arabic teacher came out of the idea of the motivation chart
and connect it with culture things.

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 3- During the lesson sometimes I give stars special day for student we usually don’t
participate in order to encourage them.

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 Goal 4: Time management.

Previously stated development needs

Skills you
Personal
personally know
MCT development Needs of the setting
MST recommendation you need to interest
recommendation develop
 Organisation. Use timer. Timer.

Be always on  Good Have plan B Chart.

time. planning my incase plan A
time well. fail.

Concise Reflections & actuality

Goal Time management. Time management was one of
the goals I personally focus on
my previous teaching practice
and for this teaching practice
my goal is to really implement
and manage my time well.
Action  Make sure to attend and To make sure I manage my
set the class before the time very wisely I set a timer
students come. using my Apple Watch to keep
 Start and finish my lesson tracking the time without keep
within the time I planned looking to the screen on
for the lesson. looking for my phone to check
 Set timer. the time.
 Set list of goals I want to
reach. Make sure to set up my
 Practice my opining. classroom before the students
 Adapt myself to move to came and to make sure
plan B if plan A didn’t everything is ready, and
work. organize the classroom and
setting up my activities.
 Plan a head.
 Plan for potential crises.
Always ready to change from
Jennifer L.M. Gunn
plant A to plan B just in case
(2020, May 12).
something went different than
 Organize the classroom. I planned.

Describe the frame Semester 7 I think I did reach my goal for

this semester.
Any support needed  My MST feedback. I will ask my MST to observe
me and ask for her feedback.
Data collection tools to be used  Notes. Using timer and set a to do list

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to provide evidence of the  To do list. or checklist helped me to
success of the action  Checklist. success the school.
 Timers.
 Planning. Good planning and follow the
notes I prepare for myself was
also very helpful t to reach my
goal.
Evidence (after implement After finishing the lesson I will
ation) check my checklist And to do list
to see if I did all what I planned
for.

Documents for this goal

1- I always sit times on my apple watch to keep tracking the time.

2- During the whole group activity I put the activity in the carpet and ask the
students to start and I set the sand glass so both of me and students know how
much time we still have.

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 3- Note/planning: before starting my lesson, I take note and plan for what I’m going
to teach then share my ideas with my MST.

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 Goal 5: classroom management.

Previously stated development needs Skills you

Personal
MCT personally know Needs of the
MST development
recommendatio you need to setting
recommendation interest
n develop
# Creativity. # Confidence. # Behavior charts.
# Don’t rush to know
the students. # Communication # Clear in # Rewards.
with the students. structures.
# Take time to observe # Classroom rules.
the student’s behavior.
# Leading.

Concise Reflections & actuality

Goal Classroom management. Classroom management is one
of the most important skill a
teacher should implement in her
class that’s why I chose it as a
gold I want to make sure I
achieve this semester.
Action The classes I thought was well
 Let the students read the behaving however as usual in
rules with the teacher. each class there are some
 Diversety of students that need to manage her
management strategies behaviour.
such as behavior charts
classdojo points. As a daily routine I read the
 Give simple and clear rules in every opening lesson
instructions. then ask the students to read the
 Smile to the students. rules and show me the action,
(Youki Terada for example for good setting I
August 7, 2019) will say “show me a good
 Communicate clearly setting” to make sure they
and regularly. Zachary actually understand and know
Fruhling (2018, August how to follow others.
16).
 Observe the students In the first week I tried to focus
and try to understand on the students behaviors and
their behave. see who are the students that
needed to be control during the
 Set the classroom
centers and separate the the
environment and make
hyper students.
it appropriate to serve
the teacher one she

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 teach. As a teacher I try to have a good
 Separate the hyper relationship between me and my
students. students because my behavior
and my attitude would reflect on
their behavior as well so I try to
be positive smiling at them.
Describe the frame Semester 7 I think I did reach my goal for
this semester.
Any support needed  MST experience is and My MST was the main source of
how she can manage in support for the school this goal I
the class and deal with learn from her classroom
the students behaviour. management and try to do the
 Do the same action the same strategies she do like
MST do when the reminding the students of the
students miss behave rules during the lesson if I saw
and follow her routine. some misbehavior while I teach.
 Keep reminding the
students with the rules.
Data collection tools to be used  Classroom rules. I use the classroom rules in my
to provide evidence of the  Behaviour charts. PowerPoint slides and the rules
success of the action  Stickers. on the wall that near the
students.

I use the behavior charts I did

for the class and sometimes I
use stickers as a reward if they
behave well but if they
misbehave I use the behavior
chart the MST had in her class
before.
Evidence (after implement Check the students behaviour
ation) from the charts I use during the
lesson.

Documents for this goal

1- Behavior chart for KG2A.

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 2- Classroom rules.

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 3- Social distance rules.

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 4- Lesson rules.

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Gro up
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Good Eye s lo o kin g Mo u th q u ie t Ra ise yo u r
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Sittin g ha nd
Individua l
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Exit tic ke t

Conclusion
My MST did help me to reach my goals she also provides me with good feedback and great
advises that can help me in the future as a teacher I had a good experience with her and with the
students.

My action plan for the next semester is to upgrade my professionalism and try to improve myself
attend more meetings to have a gain more experience.

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