Professional Learning Planning Template

Kaylan Robinson

18WB-OTL515-1-Teacher as an Instructional Agent

Professional Learning Planning Template

Dr. Kimberly Smith

March 8, 2019
Professional Learning Planning Template

Professional Learning Template

The following chart will help a teacher coach to plan Professional learning that increases educator effectiveness and results for

all students:

Professional Description/ example of use Sentence stem to help guide your

Learning Standard thinking

Learning Teacher coaches should plan to I will use ______________ to help teachers

Communities- have teachers engage in a build collective responsibility and goal

Occurs within brainstorming activity to help alignment.

learning communities identify how responsibility and

committed to goal alignment may be shared at

continuous various grade levels. This could be

improvement, done through the exploration of

collective classroom jobs, Visual Data

responsibility and Trackers, and goal setting

goal alignment. activities. Providing students with

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choice and voice is also one way to

build and maintain learning

communities that are committed to

continuous improvement!

Leadership- requires Teacher coaches should seek out ________________’s area(s) of growth is/are

skillful leaders who the clients’ specific needs and _______________. Professional development

develop capacity, area(s) of growth in order to that will help to build this skill is

advocate, and create plan/refer personalized learning __________________.

support systems for opportunities. This could be done

professional learning. by connecting and familiarizing the

teacher with the district

professional learning online

database, as well as planning PD’s

that allow for a variety of needs

that must be met.

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Resources- requires For instance, if the teacher uses the same I will help my client to organize his/her

prioritizing math curriculum every day, he/she will ______________ by _______________.

monitoring, and need easy access to the materials and they

coordinating resources will need to be organized in a way that

for educator learning. makes the resources easy to navigate. On

the other hand, resources that are only

Teacher coaches
used a few times a year, such as test-prep
should help the
materials, or themed lessons, do not need
teacher to create
to be as easily accessible. Another
efficient ways to
important layer to this coaching skill is
organize educational
teaching the teacher coach how to access
resources. This can be
these resources herself.
done by categorizing

the resources by their

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level of use and

priority.

Data- a variety of The teacher leader should not only I will help the client to ceate and maintain

sources and types of stress the importance of using systems and procedures for analyzing data and

student, educator, and student data to drive instruction, using the data to plan. (This can be done

system data to plan, but the leader should also model weekly through data team meetings.)

assess, and evaluate this when teaching different

professional learning. procedures or providing supports

for the client/ It would be

beneficial to be transparent about

how to use data to plan next steps.

Learning Designs-integrates The coach should understand the I will provide my client with

theories, research, and models importance of using research and _______________ reading this month and ask
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of human learning to achieve
its’ intended outcomes.
Implementation- applies
research on change and
sustains support for
implementation of
professional learning for
long-term change.
theories to guide the learning of the
client. Providing resources, book
titles, and articles that are specific
o his/her learning.
The teacher coach should provide
various supports to help implement
long-term change. One of these
supports could be requiring that the
teacher creates a SMARTE goal to
help her to focus her energy and
time effectively.
him/her to reflect on how they can apply this to
their own best practices.
I will help the client to set a specific SMARTE
goal using the following guide:
I will improve
________________________________ (my
overall teaching best practices) by
______________________________
(modeling problem solving through the daily
use of meta-cognition). I will focus exclusively
on ______________________ (the Problems
and Investigations) component of the (Bridges
Number Corner ) curriculum every day. By
__________________________March 25,
2019, 80% of students will perform
_________________________ (on grade level
or above grade level) as measured by
______________________________________
(our quarterly math interim assessment).
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Outcomes- aligns The teacher coach should have a clear The exit ticket shows us that the teacher

outcomes with system that aligns the teachers’ was/was not successful in teaching

educator performance performance with curriculum standards. ______________. (specific content standard)

and student For instance, incoperating an exit ticket to

curriculum standards. measure students’ performance.

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References:

Aguilar, E. (2013). The art of coaching: Effective strategies for school transformation. San Fransisco, CA: Jossey- Bass

Inam, H. (2010). The 5 C’s of great coaching conversations. Retrieved from

http://www.transformleaders.tv

Mind Tools. (n.d.). How to make your goals achievable. Retrieved from

https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/smart-goals.htm (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.