Pre-Professional Growth Plan: Source of Evidence

4. Pre-Professional Growth Plan (4E)

This PPGP should be completed for each of the respective CAPs for review and approval.

CAP 2 CAP 3 CAP 4

Name: Tiffany Riggins Date: 04/20/2018
a. Professional Growth Goal (KTS):

By CAP IV, I will use multiple methods of assessment to engage learners in their own growth, to monitor learner
progress and guide my own decision making at least once a week.

b. Professional Learning Activities c. Needed Resources/Support d. Anticipated Completion

 Attend PPD on Assessment in  Document in Journal Date
Music Classroom  Finances
 Attend Seminar/Conference  Permission December 2018
 Find a mentor (Cooperating  List of Books and Resources
Teacher?)  Mentor or Mentors
 Read a research article over
Assessment
 Read a Music Assessment book
 Study Music Assessment Rubrics
online

e. How will you assess your progress/success in addressing the Professional Growth Goal?
 Keep a journal
 Accumulate certificate of attendance
 Notes on articles read
 Notes from mentor/collaborating teacher
 Review the book

f. What is the expected impact on student learning of your professional learning activities?
 Improvement within student test-taking skills, as well as establishing a routine within the classroom where
students know what is to be prepared for ensembles and solos and how they are graded. (Rubric)

Name: Date:
Review your self-assessments and feedback from lessons.
a. Professional Growth Goal (Domain or Disposition):
By CAP IV I will use effective communication within the classroom and keep a tally in my journal of times when
discussion seems to be flowing and when it is not. My students will be able to retain information and discuss with
classmates as well as the teacher about subjects pertaining to the instruction.

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 b. Professional Learning Activities c. Needed Resources/Support d. Anticipated Completion
 Research procedures over Date
effective communication within  Teachers that are great at
the classroom. discussion within classroom. December 2018
 Attend PPD on Discussion within  Teachers that have a great ability
Music Classroom of simplifying the main idea.
 Attend Seminar/Conference
 Find a mentor (Cooperating
Teacher?)
 Read a research article over
Music Classroom Discussion
 Read a Music class discussion
book
 View YouTube videos in which
students and teachers have
discussion within a Music Class
(Ensemble or General)

e. How will you assess your progress/success in addressing the Professional Growth Goal?
Increase of test scores, and better understanding. Ability to discuss with students and faculty outside of the
classroom.

f. What is the expected impact on student learning of your professional learning activities?
Students will be able to analyze and discuss details over Musical subjects, and be confident in their responses.

To be completed at CAP 3 and CAP 4

Analyze your Professional Growth:
For my first goal in my professional growth, I chose to grow in demonstrating the implementation of technology. I
attended two clinics at the KMEA 2017 Conference.
The first clinic was Special Learners get their mojo. In this clinic I was able to learn about the implementation of
technology when approaching special learners, specifically students with dyslexia. I was introduced to the world of
Quaver Music. Quaver Music gives students a technological interactive experience. The second clinic was Teaching
Beginning Band When You Don’t Live in Texas. I was able to see how a band director teaches their beginning band
with a program which shows beats relating it to math objects, such as a ruler, and pie charts. The program shows how
long a beat should last depending on value and articulation,

For my second goal managing effective communication within classroom. My students will be able to retain
information and discuss with classmates as well as the teacher about subjects pertaining to the instruction. I feel that
I still need more time to build a competency within my lessons so that students will be able to discuss the lesson with
each other as well as review. From observations I have found that comedy within your lesson can help conduct good

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discussions, because it was relatable. I still need to research procedures over effective communication within the
classroom.

Summative Reflection: Attending these clinics will benefit me in student teaching because it gives me a familiarity to
Quaver Music, which is a tool I have observed in many elementary classrooms. With Quaver Music I will be able to
utilize components from the website to teach the elements of music to K-8, and develop a lesson plan within the
program. The program will apply to all learners, as it has visual, audible, and kinesthetic activities. The technological
Math objects program will help me in teaching a hard concept to grasp within an ensemble setting. To society now a
days technology is engaging and helps with the attention span of students. For my second goal I feel that I did not
accomplish what I want to, and I will roll it into my next growth plan. I will need to take more intricate notes on what I
notice from observations and how the teacher maintains simplifying the main idea. This is an area I feel that needs to
improve because it is the content knowledge aspect that drives the discussion.

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