Template 3.
A Professional Growth Plan Incorporating the STP Process
Annual Professional Growth Plan for: Joel Finlay
School Year: 2021 to 2022
Teaching Quality Standard:
-Engaging in Career Long Learning
-Demonstrating a Professional Body of Knowledge
-Applying Foundational Knowledge of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit (FNMI)
Goal #:
1. Educate myself and implement varied
teaching strategies including use of
different technologies to inform my
practice
2. Promote more explicitly the
relationship FNMI cultural practices
have had on the development of
scientific education
Resources:
-Internet searches for qualified material
-University of Calgary resources and library
-FNMI Elder communication
-Fellow teaching professional communication
© 2006 The Alberta Teachers’ Association
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Strategies and Timelines:
-explore technological teaching strategies and
evaluate which strategies I can implement in
my classroom with limited technological
resources
-build relationships with teachers who use
technology readily in their teaching practice
and incorporate areas into my own teaching
-research teaching subjects further to evaluate
ad analyze FNMI influence in the area.
-connect with local FNMI Elders on improving
the resources used in my teaching practice
Timeline: Complete by beginning of Sept 2021
Indicators of Success/Expected Outcomes:
-Find resources that can have a positive
influence in varying my teaching practice and
using more technological influence
-Positive recognition from partner teacher in
utilization of resources
-Positive feedback from Educational Partners
-FNMI connections becomes expressly
connected in my lesson plans a minimum of
once per week per subject
Reflections:
Based on my professional practice and my observations of student learning . . .
What should I do more of?
-use technology
-use varying teaching practices
-expressly connect FNMI to science and math
more often
Because
-not using technology reduces connection with
students
-a singular teaching strategy does not
effectively communicate material at all times
-FNMI cultures have played an integral role in
knowledge of our natural world and that should
be recognized
What new things could I do?
-use technological aids in teaching
-have student led teaching/exploration of
learning activities
-connect the subject matter to the natural world
better
Because
-technology reaches students more
appropriately as they come from a generation
who was born with the world at the finger tips
-student led teaching can allow for deeper
meaning
-the natural world is what science teaches
about…so use it!
© 2006 The Alberta Teachers’ Association
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What should I do less of?
-100% instruction
-limiting instruction to white board activities
-reduce science into simplification of fact
based knowledge
Because
-student lead instruction allows students to
connect with material on a deeper level
-varied instruction methods keep things alive in
the classroom
-knowledge surrounding the wholeness of a
subject, more correctly honours its heritage
What should I stop doing?
-strictly white board teaching
-being the sole purveyor of information in the
classroom
-sticking to the confines of the classroom
Because
-its boring and redundant
-students need to explore their learning
-movement and exploration is good for student
health and well-being