Individualized Professional Development Plan

Name: Emma Marchel | Major: Elementary Education

Why are you pursuing this degree?

I registered for all of my classes at Butler and was sure I wanted to major in music education, but a week before classes started I panicked and
switched to exploratory major for my first semester. By the end of the semester I had declared elementary education as my major because I realized
I knew all along I wanted to work with children and have an impact on them, but I realized it was the youngest ones that I wanted to teach because
I love how innocent and malleable their minds are and how every little thing they see and do has an impact on their life at this point.

What do you want the outcome to be? Is this outcome directly related to your “why?”
I want students to feel that they have a safe place to come every day and express the emotions they may not be able to at home. I also want
students to look at me the way I look at my favorite teachers—a role model and mentor. An outcome for myself personally would be that I taught
each and every one of my kids to the best of my ability and to teach them as much information at a time. This is partially related to my why because
doing this would have a big impact on the students.

How are you going to work toward making that outcome possible?
I want to learn as much as I can in the education classes I take here at Butler. But in addition to what I learn in the classroom, I think the best way
to learn is from interacting with students and children themselves. I think doing more observations and even doing some observations and
babysitting on my own will be very beneficial.

Goals
Timeframe Personal Professional

Next - Volunteer at least once a month
Semester - Find at least one more mentor
- Go to at least four events on campus
Next year - Go to at least three call-out meetings
- Join at least one club
- Continue to go to lots of concerts on campus
- Decide if Elementary Education is the best fit for me
- Look into adding Special Education
- Get a summer internship or job related to education
- Continue to take as many Education classes as I can
Individual Professional Development Plan
Assets and Provocations

Alignment to
Planned
Objective of Development Vision, Mission, How activity impacts student
Activities
Activity Core Values, learning
Major, or Minor
-Shadow and -See what types of methods of teaching - Integrated -The best way for a teacher to learn is
Required observe as many are most effective for the students Practice and from the students themselves in my
knowledge and classrooms as I can -Gain ideas of how to run activities in Collaboration opinion. I feel a teacher should be
skills my own classroom learning just as much from the students
Consider: as they teach. Teachers should be learning
● required how students think and process and how
competencies to best teach each individual child.

-Talk to people who -Learn from fellow teachers the things •Integrated -I think the best way to learn about
Assets/Strengths have been in they have learned and what they have Practice and experiences other than going through
Consider: education for a found works best for their classes as Collaboration them yourself is learning about them from
● your views while and learn well as what didn’t work very well for others. I might learn something from
● recent about their their particular students another teacher that might help a student
tests/appraisals experiences in my class learn better or differently.
● other people’s
views

Provocations/ -Always being open -This would allow me to realize and -Appreciation of -A student can only learn however much
Growth to the idea that remember how much I don’t know and Diversity and the teacher knows, however the student
Consider: there is always more can learn Similarity can learn everything the teacher knows
● gaps in to learn and teach
knowledge/skills
● changes to -Stay in contact with -Yes it is good to keep things cohesive -Building Global -The more ideas I learn from others about
systems/services teachers outside of throughout a school, but it is also Educators teaching styles and ideas the more I can
requiring new my school important to recognize that someone try them out and find what works best for
skills might have a slightly better way of my students
● what will help you doing things and this would cause me
to progress in your to learn about the better way.
role?
-Learning to adapt -Each classroom has a different -The appreciation -Taking the time to learn how a student
to each classroom personality and each child has a for diversity and learns best can actually save both the
and each child’s different personality and recognizing similarity student and the teacher time in the end
Provocation/ needs wherever this will only help me realize to find because they know the most effective way
Growth continued possible different teaching methods besides just to go about learning.
one

Individual Professional Development Plan Activity Log

Description of professional development
Timeframe Connection to your stated objective
activity completed
1. Observed Algebra 1 classroom at Pike High February 27, 2019 Learned that a students background can greatly
School 9:00 AM—11:00 AM effect how they best learn.
2. Observed Dr. Lori work with preschool kids at January 23, 2019 Learned about the impact physical touch can
St. Mary’s Early Childhood Center 8:45 AM—9:50 AM have on a child.

3. Shadowed First Grade teacher at Lincoln November 26, 2018 Discovered early elementary education might be
Elementary School 9:00 AM—4:00 PM a very suitable fit for me.
4. Volunteered with preschoolers in daycare February 19, 2019 Learned about the daycare side of education
helping them make a craft and have snack 3:00 PM—5:00 PM and how much even they have to teach the
children.
5. Discussed a parents experience with Special March 13, 2019 Learned how difficult it can be for parents who
Education programs in their daughters school 8:00 PM—10:00 PM have children with a disability to find someone
that the school willing to take the time to help
them.
Total PD Hours 14 hours