Professional Growth Template
ECED 300
Name: Megan Grable
Date: March 7th 2019
Knowledge and Skills: Review your Self-Assessment completed in Week Two. In the table below, identify five (5) goals for
yourself and the category of core knowledge to which it relates. Then, list at least one resource that will help you in achieving your
goal.
Core Knowledge or Skill
1. Child Development
2. Health, safety, and nutrition
3.Professionalism
4. Diversity
Goal
I hope to be able to share my
knowledge of child
development in a way that
helps others learn and helps
other with their professional
development.
To understand sanitization
practices and why they are
important
To understand programs aside
from my own and how they are
administered.
To have a better understanding
of the cultures I serve aside
from my own and to help reflect
Rationale
Once I have a mastery of the
subject I will be confident in my
ability to share child
development with new
teachers who are just learning
the field, creating a center with
higher quality services.
To share the importance of all
procedure and to make sure
that all the regulations are
adhered to
To help my practices, it is
important to understand what
works well in other programs
and possibly implement those
practices myself, as well as the
ability to direct families to other
programs who might fit their
needs better than our program
can.
When children see their culture
represented in the classroom
they are able to be more
Resources
Articles in publications like;
NAEYC, young children
magazine, Being a part of
organizations like NAEYC and
the National Indian Head Start
Association and participating in
trainings
Washington Department of
Health
Networking with local programs
to get a better understanding of
how their programs are run.
Suquamish Museum,
community member input,
particularly parents sharing

5. Partnerships with Families
that community in the
classroom
Become more confident at
promoting family participation
in the classroom and in the
center.
invested in their own
education.
When families are included as
a partner in the classroom and
as decision makers in the
program they are in, higher
outcomes of school readiness
can be achieved.
what is important for their
families. National Indian Head
Start Association
Trainings through the Office of
Head start’s Early Childhood
Knowledge and Learning
center’s Family Engagement
training series.
Professional Behaviors: Review your Self-Assessment on Chapter 4—Behaving Like a Professional (Appendix C, pp. 115-116).
Identify at least one goal for each of the aspects of professional behavior. Include at least one resource for each goal.
Aspect of Professional
Behavior
Communication &
Relationships
Work Ethic
Moral and Ethical Behavior
(select one of the subtopics)
Personal Advocacy
Goal
Listening to and using
constructive criticism
To be more punctual
To help others learn about and
analyze an ethical
responsibility
To work to change policies that
serve children and families
Rationale
Ton learn and to grow better at
in this field views and tactics
must be constantly evolving.
“The ability to take another
point of view of another person
is a critical component of
respect.” (Feeney, p. 59)
Timeliness is a form of
trustworthiness, and if I am
able to be on time it shows that
I am dependable.
It’s important for just the lead
teacher in a room, but all those
who work with the children to
have an understanding of
ethics and responsibility to
children when in a classroom.
The ability to recognize and
analyze such topics will lead to
a more cohesive teaching team
and greater outcomes for all
parties.
Policies must be ensured to be
beneficial for the children, if not
work must be done to ensure
that these policies are changed
Resources
Trainings on how to have
difficult conversations, and how
to separate what is said about
me from who I am as a person.
Trainings on Practice based
coaching on how to have
difficult conversations.
Investing in a better alarm
system for one. Having
someone keep me accountable
is crucial, so enlisting a friend
to keep me on track.
The NAEYC code of Ethics, the
NAEYC code of Ethics for
Administrators, coaching
trainings on how to assist
teachers in assessing issues.
Peer reviewed resources to
back up the practices that need
to change, example “Circle
Time Revisited: How Do
Preschool Classrooms Use This

Professional Advocacy To increase educational
practices and policies in the
community
to reflect what is best to create
quality services.
Support for early childhood
education must be given in the
community if a program is to be
successful. Having buy in from
local politician and community
members will lead to higher
levels of support and create a
better program in the long run.
Part of the Day?” from The
Elementary School Journal
Peer reviewed resources to
back up the practices that need
to change as well as to assert
the rights of teachers to be
treated professionally. Articles
such as “Contesting early
childhood professional
identities: A cross-national
discussion.” From
Contemporary Issues in Early
Childhood
Personal Attributes: During the course you were asked to plot your temperament and view yourself through the lens of multiple
intelligences. In addition, you considered the events or experiences in your life that caused you to choose early childhood education
as a career. In one to two paragraphs, discuss how your temperament, intelligences and personality could impact your work as an
early childhood educator. Include an additional paragraph that describes how knowing about yourself (temperament,
intelligences and personality) might influence your actions in the workplace (Feeney, 2012, p. 122).

Playing up my linguistic and interpersonal strength is important while in the field of early childhood education. It provides me with
an opportunity to relate to families and coworkers and to build a relationship with them where we can be a team with the common
goal of teaching children. I have a high level of empathy for others as well as patience which is crucial in the field as both are vital
to be a good teacher. I value consistency and a sense of fairness, which is important not only in the classroom with my work with
children but with the teachers I work along side as well as any one I may supervise. I am able to stay calm in tense situations, not
prone to outward emotions as a way to process an incident.

I feel it is crucial for a person to be self-aware of their strengths and faults as to not allow room for their faults to become too large. I
try to be as a self-aware as possible to not get too shy with others, to try and conduct myself professionally and to It also gives me
opportunity to play up my strengths, to volunteer to do activities where I am adept, such as technological tasks, I am proficient
enough to assist others with these and therefore I am a good candidate to teach new programs in assessments and record keeping
to other staff.
Doing Your Best for Children: Describe what you see as your primary area of strength as an early childhood educator. Include a
rationale for what you identify as your strength. Then, record one goal for continued growth and one resource that will help you in
meeting this goal. In terms of the aspects of professional engagement (Feeney, 2012, pp. 120-121), describe where you are now
and write one goal for the future. Include a rationale for the goal as well as at least one resource that may be helpful in achieving
that goal. Considering where you are now and where you want to be, write one career goal for 12 months and another for 5 years
from now. Include a rationale for each goal and one resource that will help you achieve that goal.

Description Goal Rationale Resource

Strength I am able to build Increase my ability to All good working Trainings on
relationships with others form and maintain relationships are built on relationship building
these relationships and a place of mutual trust and how to balance
to build on them and respect. work/personal
relationships
Professional Engagement I am beginning to become I’d like to increase my When I am more Practice based
a mentor to those confidence and confident in my ability, I coaching methods,
entering the field competence in will be able to more learn how to
mentoring others competently mentor accurately observe
others. and assess teachers
and give them
Career Goal (12 month) N/A Be able to coach and Giving new teachers CLASS certification
mentor several support to learn the field through Teachstone,
beginning teachers in and to increase their ITERS or ECERS
knowledge will provide a trained observer, and
better-quality program. PBC through ECKLC
Career Goal (5 years) N/A Successful be able to Providing support to all ECKLC from the office
provide resources to all teachers in various levels of Head Start, their
the teachers I of their professional Practice Based
supervise so that they journey will help each Coaching and
can improve their teacher reach their maintain CLASS
practices. highest potential. certification, and
ITERS and ECERS
training