EDE 4940 Internship in Elementary Education

Professional Development Plan (PDP)

Name:

Nancy Bolognese

Semester/Year: Spring 2015

Goal # 1: Increase student participation/involvement by 95% in all daily activities

Strategy

Key Actions

Progress Indicators

Timeline

Person(s) Responsible

Needed Resources

Apply questioning and

discussion techniques
by preparing lessons
with questions that
apply to subject area

During lessons ask

questions that apply
to the subject area
and give students
time to reflect/answer

Monitor the questions

I am asking during
the lessons and how
they apply to the
subject area

Fall 2015

Myself, mentor for

guidance, supervisor
for advice,
administration and
colleagues

Reading Street and

Go Math along with
internet resources

Use
strategies/activities
that keep the
students engaged

Utilize Kagan
techniques that keep
the students on task
and focused

Set-up a daily log of

what techniques can
and will be used to
keep the students
engaged

Prepare lessons that

motivate

Create lessons that

have more than
worksheets, that use
manipulatives and
realia

Daily, monthly, and

quarterly

Kagan Cooperative
Learning by Dr.
Spencer and Miguel
Kagan

Check daily that the

manipulatives and
reaila are keeping the
students engaged
then make any
needed changes

Goal reflection:
Ive noticed that Im having a difficult time keeping the students engaged during lessons. My mentor pointed out
that I need to throw in more questioning whether it be quick or timely based on the subject area. Also to give the
students more time to reflect and answer on the question and then pick a student to answer. I look forward to

researching more of questioning and engagement strategies in the resources I mentioned. I know that I have the
skills I just need to be better equipped to apply them.

EDE 4940 Internship in Elementary Education

Professional Development Plan (PDP)
Name:

Nancy Bolognese

Semester/Year: Spring 2015

Goal # 2: Improve behavior management skills by 95%

Strategy

Keep the students

engaged in the lesson

Reiterate to the
students what the
classroom
rules/procedures are
and the consequences
that are involved

Be consistent with
behavior
management
techniques

Key Actions

Progress Indicators

Timeline

Person(s) Responsible

Needed Resources

Practice and master

strategies of behavior
management such as
Responsibility Training
in which the students
take on responsibility
of behavior and
learning

Monitor how I am
using strategies to
help manage the
behavior and if Im
allowing the students
to take responsibility
for their behavior and
learning

Fall 2015

Myself, my mentor
and supervisor for
advice,
administration,
colleagues

Effective Classroom
Management by
Carlette Jackson
Hardin

With administrators
approval visit a
colleagues classroom
to see how they
handle

Keep track on how

often the rules have
to be reiterated and
then establish if I
need to work on
management skills

Focus more on
positive behavior
rather than negative
and place
responsibility on the
students

Reflect on how often I

rewarded positive
behavior and how
often I punished for
negative behavior and
make the needed
changes

Weekly, quarterly

Goal reflection:
I realize there are many steps such as Responsibility Training, Backup System, and Omission Training to master in
order to progress with student behavior management. After I practice and master these strategies I know I can
monitor student behavior better. It seems the classroom clip board is based more on negative by having three
boxes for clipping down and only one box for clipping up with good behavior. In my own classroom I will implement
more positive behavior comments and rewards than what Ive seen in the past. I will also re-read Effective
Classroom Management and research ways that I can apply positive behavior strategies.

EDE 4940 Internship in Elementary Education

Professional Development Plan (PDP)

Name:

Nancy Bolognese

Semester/Year: Spring 2015

Goal # 3: Reach 100% of establishing time management for better transitions

Strategy

Key Actions

Progress Indicators

Timeline

Person(s)
Responsible

Needed Resources

Work on time
management for a
better flow of
transitions

Time myself during

lessons using a stop
watch or a type of
alarm

Monitor on a daily
basis how I kept
track of time and if it
worked

Fall 2015

Work on keeping
students focused on
the subject of the
lesson and not get
off track

Establish and use the

technique called the
Parking lot

Allow students a few

minutes in the
afternoon to review
the Parking Lot list
and also keep track
of that time

Myself, mentor to
help me stay on
time, visit colleagues
classroom to view
their time
management skills

My cell phone to keep

track of my time
internet resources such
as internet timer, and
re-do lesson plans
focusing on time

Create lessons that

are based on the
time frame of the
subject area

Establish a time for

each lesson and
make sure that I
stick to the time
frame

Daily, weekly, and

quarterly

Check myself weekly

that my lesson are
on track and on time

Goal reflection:
Ive realized that when I go over the time during a lesson Im rushing the students to get ready for the next
transition. This is not good for the students and it puts stress on me too. On all my lessons I need to make sure I
set a time limit and stick to the time. Then the students and I will not feel the stress of hurrying to the next lesson,
lunch, or Specials. I need to monitor my time by clocking myself, create lessons that have a definite time and follow
the time, and practice timing myself on these lessons to monitor that my time is not going over. Ive also realized
that all these goals intertwine. Without engagement the students get bored and then there is negative behavior and
without time management transitions get disrupted and students feel the tension and again negative behavior
becomes an issue.
I know that having my own classroom where Ive established rules and guidelines, positive behavior strategies, time
transitions and engagement will make a difference. Right now I am following my mentors procedures and guidelines

which is a great start for me, but I feel that sometimes the procedures are altered which then causes me confusion
and also the students.