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Course Name: Practi cum G1 Course Code: EPC 4909

Instructor Name: Dr. Martha

Task Title: Professional Development Plan – Part 2

Due Date: Date Submitt ed: 1-4-2021

Student Name: Mariam Abdulateef

Student ID: H00329265 Secti on:

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Professional Development Plan – (Part 1):

Student name: Mariam Abdulateef ID: H00329265

Introduce the PDP setting:

Each teacher should have a professional development plan ‘’PDP’’, to improve their teaching skills, and
to achieve their goals as a teacher. A professional development plan is a plan that explains the goals, the
PDP identify the necessary skills and recourses that support the teacher’s goals. The professional
development plan is a list of actionable steps that helps you to achieve your goals, and it helps you to gain
specific insight into how you can reach your aspirations.

The purpose and justification a professional development plan is basically a development plans that
define teacher’s career goals, and it is a necessary tool to guide you through the operation. According to
Prifysgol Bangor University staff ‘’Why should you set goals?
Here are just a few good reasons to set yourself goals:

 To establish the direction that you need to take.

 Provide you with time to reflect on your role and the areas in which you want to develop.
 Motivation is key to achieving goals.  Individuals and teams find goals are motivating as they
provide direction and a way of measuring success.
 Allow you to take control and be proactive rather than be reactive to events.’’

The professional development plan (PDP) is important for teachers because it is help them to define
what they really want for their future, it helps them organize their time and know the steps they are
making, also it can helps the teachers to create a structured plan and timeline for achieving their goals,
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and its let you take the responsibility for your own development. Recording to Chrissy, S, Professional
Development Plan Basics: The Purpose and Benefits of PDP.

As I mentioned before, the professional development plan (PDP), can help me define my goals and
work on them until I achieve the goals I have set, moreover, it allow me to take control on what is
coming in my career. The PDP will help know the areas that I want to develop in the future. According
to Prifysgol Bangor University staff PDP will be helpful for me and it will show me the direction that I
need to take, by writing the goals and how I will achieve it.

My professional development plan goals for this semester, the first goal is to use differentiated
activities for the students, and the actions for this goal that I will use different activities for
different students achievement level: Low-Medium-High, and I will assess students learning
using diagnostic assessment. Also, I will design lessons based on students learning styles, and
I will use Collaborative learning. Defied the students into groups and work as group .
According to Wesebly, C, (2020).

The second goal of my professional development plan is improve my time management, I will
plan for the lesson and submit the lesson plan on time, also, I will attend the class before the
students, I will set a time limit for each activity, make a schedule and stick to it, I will use a
to-do-list. According to Arvidsson, N, April (15, 2016).

Third goal of my professional development plan is use the teacher voice during the classroom,
the actions I will make is I will feel more confident while am teaching. I will practice more
teaching in front of the class, I will act like am the only teacher in the classroom, also, I will
record the class during am teaching and I will play the record to notice my mistakes.
According to Pulda, Arnold, (10, May, 2001).

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 Finally, the last goal of my PDP is Improve my communicating skill; build relationships with
the administration and teachers. Actions of this goal is attending the assembly early, and ask
if they want help, and attend the meetings with the teachers, also, I will provide help in the
events they have in the school.

Previously stated development

Skills you
needs Personal
personally know
MCT development Needs of the setti ng Comments:
MST you need to
recommenda interest
recommendation develop
tion
You need to
use different
levels of Be aware of
Use
activities for student’s
differentiated in To have different tasks for each level.  
different achievement
the classroom.  
students levels.
achievement
levels.
Professional
Development
Target
Planning for learning
(aligned with
TP
competency)
Concise Reflections & actuality
Goal 1:  
 Use differentiated activities for the
students.  
Action 1:  I used differentiated during teaching and I helped students
- I will use different acti viti es for different who needed help,

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 students achievement level: Low-Medium-
High.
 - I will assess students learning using
diagnostic assessment.
- Design lessons based on students learning
styles.
- Group students by shared interest, topic, or
ability for assignments.

- Create a PowerPoint presentation

summarizing the lesson.

- According to Wesebly, C, (2020).

I assessed the student’s learning by using diagnostic
- Collaborative learning. Defied the students into assessment; I designed lesson plans based on students
groups and work as group.
learning style.
- Moti vate the students to work hard. By I created a PowerPoint that summarized the lesson. I
giving rewards in the end of the week. motivated the students by giving them oral feedbacks to work
more.
Because of the online teaching I couldn’t defied the students
into groups to work together.
Desired time   Semester 7 – 8
frame:  
Any support - MST support by giving me feedback,
needed tell me about students levels.

- MST experience in teaching, how to My colleagues were helping me by giving me feedbacks that
deal with student in different was useful and helpful for me to improve my teaching.
situations? My MST helps me to find online games that our students can
- MST support by giving me the work on it.
student’s work for the whole term.
Data collection  I used diagnostic assessments in the beginning of the class to
- Collect different levels of student’s
tools to be used to know the student’s knowledge, I engaged the students by
activities.
provide evidence playing videos related to the lesson and by putti ng pictures in

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of the success of
- Engage the students during the lesson.
the action
- Pictures of the rewards that students
gain.
- Diagnostic assessments.
the PowerPoint.
Evidence (after
implementation)

   

Skills you personally Personal Needs of the setti ng Comm

Previously stated development needs
know you need to development ents:
MCT MST recommendation develop interest
recommendati

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 on

You have to manage the

Organization the
ti me to not waste the
Manage the time lesson, the Finish on time  
other
class ti me. activities.

Professional
Development
Target
Commitment to profession
(aligned with
TP
competency)
Concise Reflections & actuality
Goal2:  
Improve my time management  
Action 2:  I submitted all my lesson plans
on time to my MST and MCT, I
attended the lessons on time
- Plan for the lesson and submit the lesson plan early.
and I attended my lessons 5
- Attend the class before the students. minutes earlier and I checked
- Set a time limit to each task, I will use alarm for each activity in the the Wi-Fi and the teams link. I
board. used the online timer to sit a
- Use a to-do-list, but don’t abandon tasks, I will create a list with the time for each activity and not
things I want to do. waste the class time, I used to
- Make a Schedule – and Stick to It. do-list on my phone to know the
- 7 ways to improve your Time management skills.
next step I will make in my
lesson, the list helped me a lot
(Arvidsson, N, April 15, 2016)
and it was useful to manage my
time and the class time.
Desired time frame:  
Semester 7-8  

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Any support needed I was trying my best in this
Teaching practice so I didn’t face
- MST support by giving me the feedback. any diffi cult with the student’s
- I will be using the behavior chart with the student’s names and behavior or Situation. I didn’t
will give rewards for the well used the behavior chart because
behaved students. I didn’t went on real teaching
practice.
Data collection tools to   I used the online timer to sit a
be used to provide time for each activity and not
evidence of the success waste the class time, I used to
of the action do-list on my phone to know the
next step I will make in my
- To do list. lesson, the list helped me a lot
- Timer. and it was useful to manage my
- Stickers on the computer to know the steps I will do. time and the class time. I used
- Using record or pictures that remind the students about the videos to help the students to
time they have left. guess the lessons.
Evidence (after
implementation)

To-do list
Screenshots of the meeting I attended in zoom.

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 Previously stated development needs
Skills you personally Personal
Commen
MCT know you need to development Needs of the setti ng
ts:
recommendat MST recommendation develop interest
ion

You have to
Be more confident
raise your
Using the teacher and practice more in
voice during Raise my voice.  
voice.  front of the
teaching the
students. 
students. 

Professional
Development
Target Good at communication
(aligned with
TP
competency)
Concise Reflections & actuality
Goal 3:  
Voice – use the teacher voice during the classroom.  

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Action 3:  I felt more confident this
teaching practice because it was
online and I didn’t have to open
the camera I only opened the
mic and shared my screen so I
was confident and relax and not
stressed. I trained before the
lesson I act like I have students
and I used the teacher voice, I
recorded myself while am
training to take notes of what
- I will feel more confident while am teaching. I will practice more mistakes I made. During my
teaching in front of the class. teaching my voice was clear and
- I will act like am the only teacher in the classroom. I was giving them more
- I will raise my voice during teaching the lesson. examples to get the lesson. I
- I will record the class during am teaching and I will play the recorded myself while teaching
record to notice my mistakes. in teams and I was happy that I
- How is your teaching voice? (Dugdale, Susan. 13,June, 2019) developed my teaching.
Desired time frame:  
Semester 7-8  
Any support needed - MST support – give me the feedback.
- Student’s support by behaving well during the lesson.
- I will be using the behavior chart with the student’s names and
will give rewards for the well-behaved students.
Data collection tools to I recorded the lessons I taught
be used to provide and I had a few notices to myself
evidence of the success which it the language and timing
of the action but I used my phone to help me
with the language, I putted the
words that I found diffi cult for
 - Record the class during teaching so I will notice my mistakes and me in Arabic to say right. And
I will develop it. the time I used online time.  

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Evidence (after
implementation)

The to-do list

Screenshots of the lesson record.

Previously stated development needs Skills you

Personal
personally know Comments
MCT development Needs of the setti ng
you need to :
recommenda MST recommendation interest
develop
tion
You should Communicate with Be more  
know and the stuff and confident and
build teachers in the collaborate in
relationships school. the school.
with the
teachers and
administratio

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n.
Professional
Development
Target
Commitment to profession
(aligned with
TP
competency)
Concise Reflections & actuality
Goal 4:  
Improve my communicating skill; build relationships
with the administration and teachers.  
Action 4:
- Attending the assembly early, and ask if they want
help.
- Attend the meetings with the teachers.  In this teaching we didn’t go to schools because
- Provide help in the events they have in the school. of the
- Be in touch with my MST and MCT outside the Covid-19 virus, instead of that we did our lessons
classroom and school. in Teams, so I didn’t have any chance to work in
this goal this semester.
Desired time  
frame: Semester 7-8  
Any support - Make myself feel more confident by ignoring the
needed feeling of shy.
- MST and MCT support by introduce me to the
others in the school.
Data collection
tools to be used to
provide evidence  - Records or pictures of any event or meetings I
of the success of attend.
the action - Feedbacks from MCT, MST, Principal.  
Evidence (after
implementation)

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Recourses:
- Andrew, M, (8, February, 2012) 6 strategies for differentiated instruction in project-based
learning.
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/differentiated-instruction-strategies-pbl-andrew-miller

- Arvidsson, N (April 15, 2016). 7 ways to improve your Time management skills.
https://www.recruiter.com/i/7-ways-busy-to-improve-your-time-management-skills/

- (16, July, 2020), How to Write a Professional Development Plan (With Examples).
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/professional-development-plan

- Bangor University, (13, September, 2020), A Guide to Developing a Personal Development Plan
https://www.bangor.ac.uk/humanresources/staffdevelopment/pdr/pdp-guide.php.en
- Claessens, B. J. C., Eerde, W. van, Rutte, C., & Roe, R. (2007, November 2). A review of the time
management literature. Retrieved January 28, 2020, from
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6750696.pdf

- Chrissy, S, (19, May, 2020), Professional Development Plan Basics: The Purpose and Benefits of PDP.
https://eatyourcareer.com/2019/06/professional-development-plan-basics-the-purpose-and-
benefits-of-a-pdp/
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 - Dugdale, Susan (13,June, 2019). How is your teaching voice? https://www.write-out-
loud.com/teachers-voice.html

- Duke human resources, Professional Development Plan

https://hr.duke.edu/managers/performance-management/professional-development-plan

- Promethean (2018). Differentiation in the classroom – 7 methods of differentiation .

https://resourced.prometheanworld.com/differentiation-classroom-7-methods-differentiation/
- Pulda, Ar (10, May, 2001). I found my teacher voice and transformed my classroom.
https://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/voice/voice013.shtml

- Katie, M, September 20, 2017, Writing A Professional Development Plan – Example & Template.

https://www.highspeedtraining.co.uk/hub/professional-development-plan/

- Kristin O, (25, February, 2020) Why To-Do-List do not work and how to change that?
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/why-lists-dont-work-and-how-change-that.html

- Wesebly, Cathy (2020). What is differentiated instruction? Example of how to differentiate instruction
in the classroom. https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/examples-of-differentiated-instruction/

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