Professional Development

Plan

 Student Name: Huda Hamad Owaidha

Ali Al Ahbabi
 Student ID: H00377395
 Course: EPC4406
 Instructor: Dr. Aysha Al Shamsi
 nstitution: Higher Colleges of
Technology.
 Table on content

Content Page Number

Induction 2-3
Goal 1 4-6
Goal 2 7-8
Goal 3 9-12
Goal 4 13-15
Goal 5 16- 20
Conclusion 21
Reference 23

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 Introduce my Professional evelopment plan (PDP)

DPD assists you in developing a well-structured strategy and schedule for reaching your
objectives. You can readily identify gaps in experience, knowledge, and abilities and the
actions that will be required to fill them.

It's critical that you examine your strengths and weaknesses and devise a strategy to improve
them both. You'll need to focus on what will either help you perform better in your present
career or prepare you for your future move.

As much as I focus on my goals and put my effort to reach these are specific goals this will
absolutely help me to be successful in my career and prove myself and my abilities and my
skills.

Nathan Rawlins (2020, 25), talk about how the PDP could help to identify the area of
improvement and helps also to set goals and have a clear vision of what you want to reach
also how could you organize your thoughts and actions. While I am reading his article, I like
the quote he said about the PDP “A clear roadmap for reaching goals” which match my own
definition of PDP.

After reading these two articles that lead me to ask myself what I want as professional
development plan will be, how can I improve myself by using PDP, and how is this going to
improve myself and my skills.

Justify your professional development goals for this semester.

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I have written this professional development plan to help me to develop my skills as a teacher. I
have written five goals. The first is to motivate students to learn. Using different strategies can
help achieve this goal. Secondly, time management, finish my lesson requirements on time. use
formative assessment. Thirdly, apply different management strategies to improve student
behaviors. Lastly, improve my communication skills, by knowing the school staff, attending
meeting or school events. Moreover, I explain in each skill what the actions that I will follow to
achieve my goals, support that I need and data that could help me.

To justify my PDP goals for this semester I want to reach five goals.

1- First goal is to be more social and collaborative not only with my MST but also with the
other teachers in the school. I sit this goal because I need to have a good relationship with
all the teachers, and I need to consider their thoughts and their ideas of teaching so I can
learn from them, and I can benefit and gain more experience.

2- My second goal is to improve my integration lessons. Integration is a very creative ways

to teach and it’s going to benefit the teacher and the student. According to Bredekamp, S.
& Rosegrant, T. (Eds). (1992) he said “An integrated curriculum allows children to pursue
learning in a holistic way, without the restrictions often imposed by subject boundaries.”
To reach the school I’m going to discuss and share my lesson plans with my MST and
ask her feedback and after each lesson I gave and discuss with her how can I integrate to
subject and one lesson. 75 % of the students will be able to work and participate on my
integration lessons by the end of the term, because they are familiar with integration
lesson with their teacher.

3- My third goal is use different strategies to motivate the students in the class and create
fun strategies to teach. 90% of the students will be able to reflect positively with the
motivation during the lesson till the end. This goal I personally see it as one of my
strengths because I like to create fun activities for the students and at the beginning of the
class, I always look for an interesting and fun hook to start my lesson with. U.S.
Department of State.Gov website that created by some teachers from the U.S said in their
website that “Having fun while learning also helps students retain information
better because the process is enjoyable and memorable.” U.S. Department of State.
(October 13, 2021)

4- My fourth goal is time management, I want to start my lesson at the right time and
divided my time between the opening, centers, and closing very well so the student can
benefit from the beginning till the end of the class. To reach this goal I have to practice
multiple times also I have an Apple Watch which can help me to set a timer at the
beginning of each part of the lesson. 90% students will be able to follow the rules of the
class.

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 5- My last goal and the most important goal for me at the moment is classroom management
and by I mean managing the whole class started from the students behavior which is the
main point to me for classroom management because if I can manage the student
behavior very well I can have a small lesson where everyone in the class can learn and
benefit and to reach this goal I should have mixture of strict and teacher and also friendly
teacher with the students so I had to build a good relationship with them but also I need to
make sure that the students behave well when it’s learning time.

Goal 1: Social and Collaborative

Previously stated development needs

Skills you
Personal
personally
MCT development Needs of the setting
MST recommendation know you need interest
recommendation to develop
Well
Start conversations communication.
with other teachers. I will participate at every
Initiative and school activity I can. I will
Initiate to offer
communication. help. initiate an offer help for
Ask her for any advice teachers.
or help.
Ask questions.

Concise Reflections & actuality

Goal To be more ccollaborative and have a
good communication skills with the
teachers.
From day one I greet the
principle of the school Miss
Mariam Al Dahari and she took
me to my class that I will be
teaching and introduce me to my
MST.

I had a grate communication

with my MST from day one and
I share all the aspects and the
goals I’m looking for in this

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Action
Describe the frame
Any support needed
Data collection tools to be
used to provide evidence
of the success of the
action
Evidence (after
implement ation)
1- Certificate from the school
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 Show teamwork skills.
 Initiated in school activities.
 Shared my contact such as
my phone number and email
address what the teachers.
 Ask for advices and ask
questions.
 Show good participation.
 Be positive and share
positive thoughts.
 create a better understanding
and break down any walls of
pre-judgemental or mistrust.
Sherrie Campbell (October 5,
2017.)
Semester 7-8
 MST.
 MST advice.
 Al Jood Kg Teachers.
 MST contact information.
 Kg teachers contact
information.
 contact information of Al
Jood Kg Administrator Miss
Nawal.
 School events schedule.
 Join the school telegram
channel.
Teachers interaction.
Documents for this goal
teaching practice and my MST
collaborating very well with me
and she offers me all the help I
needed.
I was very initiative and
collaborate in the schools event
and teacher meetings while I
was in Al Jood KG.
I had some difficulties in my
teaching practice however I take
the full responsibility of my
situation and I show a good
personality and positive
thoughts and participants which
help me to have a good
relationship with my MST
beside the good communication
between us.
Ongoing goal every semester.
My MST provide me and help
me with everything I needed and
answer my questions she also
gave me good advices that could
help me in the future as a
teacher.
The data collection I had was
my MST contact information
which help me to keep in touch
with her.
Since day one I ask Miss Nawal
a copy of the school event
schedule and the curriculum of
the whole month so that can
help me with planning for my
lessons.
 2- The principle, My MST and Other Kg teacher emails/phone numbers.
3- I did the organize the garden outside for plants day with my MST this week, the
following week we will take the kids and plant outside ( I will update the pictures
in my PDP).

Goal 2: Integration lessons.

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Previously stated development needs
Skills you
personally Personal
MCT know you development
MST recommendation need to interest
recommendation
develop
Keep her in touch and
show her my lesson Creativity.
plans before Planning.
implementing the Well planning.
lesson.
Concise
Goal Integration lesson.
Action  Observe my MST
lessons and see how she
integrate.
 Shared my lesson plans
with my MST.
 Ask MST for advices.
 I need my MST
feedback and avoid the
mistakes.
 Create a good integrated
lesson with good
activities to engage the
students.
 Familiarise students
with different learning
styles. (Jaclyn Aldworth
(2018, March 12)
Describe the frame Semester 7-8
Any support needed  MST previous
integration lesson plan.
 MST notes about her
integration lesson.
 Example of the
activities the MST had.
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Needs of the setting
Create a plan that include two
or more subjects in the lesson
should be simple for the
students.
Reflections & actuality
My goal is to have a good
integration lesson with kids
activities that can help the
students to learn and benefit
them.
To reach this goal I did observe
my MST lessons and I see how
she did her class routine. I check
her lesson plan to see how she
plan and how she sort the groups
by which levels.
After that I plan for my lesson
and the activities then I share
my lesson planned with my
MST and had her feedback.
For the activities I was focusing
on two main things the first one
is to have a creative activities to
engage the students and the
second thing is to follow the
usual routine like start with the
date and the weather then review
counting numbers then I start the
new lesson.
Ongoing goal.
In order to achieve this goal, I
did observe my MST and take
notes while she is teaching to
have a clear vision of her
classroom routine.
My MST have a good amount of

Data collection tools to be used
to provide evidence of the
success of the action
Evidence (after implement
ation)
different activities so while I
was observing and taking notes I
also focus on her activities and
how can I came up with good
activities such as hers.
 Students work. The data collection tools I had
 MST evaluation. for this goal Was my MST
 Pictures of students PowerPoint slides and the way
work. she organize her lesson.
 The lesson PowerPoint.
The other thing is the student
work so I can’t tell if they
actually understand the lesson
and find the activities easy to
understand and take some
pictures of their work
Students final work.

Documents for this goal

1- My lesson plan: In my lesson plan I Integrate Math, science, and English.
(my lesson plan link).
2- I present my lesson in PowerPoint. (My PowerPoint link).

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 Goal 3: Different strategies to motivate the students.

Previously stated development needs

Skills you
Personal
personally
MCT development Needs of the setting
MST recommendation know you need interest
recommendation to develop
Creative. Good relationship
with the students.
Trying new strategies I will create behavior chart
Encouraging. for the students to encourage
to motivate the Hook the students them staying behavior during
students. attention to the the lesson.
Positive rewords to behave
reinforcement. well.

Concise Reflections & actuality

Goal Different strategies to motivate the
students during the lesson.
Action  Use visual art activates.
 Use songs and videos.
 Be inspirational. (Luke
Wilcox, NBC June 4, 2018)
 Develop meaningful and
respectful relationships with
the students. (Luke Wilcox,
NBC June 4, 2018)
 Establish high expectations
and establish clear goals.
(Luke Wilcox, NBC June 4,
2018).
 Positive Competition. (MD
AKBAR ALI JUL 3, 2020)
 Give students a sense of
control. Teach Thought Staff
(2021, September 20).
 Use positive competition.
 Offer rewards, class dojo
points.
My MST advise me to try using
new motivation strategies for the
students instead of stickers
because the students used to it
which leads me to do two
behaviour charts for the two
different classes.
I did two behaviour chart for the
two classes.
For KG2A I did the behavior
chart based on the class
environment because the Arabic
teacher use a lot of cultural
pictures therefore I include kilter
with their behavior chart.
For KG2C there was no specific
theme they follow so I did the
ice cream behavior chart where
the students get a stick of ice
cream every time they did well.
These behavior charts we are
very affective way more than I
thought the students where hide
and encouraging to answer and
participate in the class.

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  Use positive language and
encourage the students.

Describe the frame Semester 7-8 Ongoing goal.

Any support needed
Data collection tools to
be used to provide
evidence of the success
of the action
 My MST dividing plan for the
student’s groups.
 Ask the MST If there is any
special need behavior for the
students.
 Observe the students level
during my teaching practice.
 Ask the MST since day one of
the students level chart.
 Customise the activities based
on the students level emerging
developing and master.
In my first day I ask my MST
about the students level and
their behaviour because it’s very
important to know their
behaviour from their MST
because she knows them better.
Then I did observe their
behavior in the class take some
notes if needed.

Which helps me later to divide

Evidence (after
implement ation)
the groups when it’s activity
time.
 Chick the student’s
performance and behavior
during and after the lesson.
 MST feedback.

Documents for this goal

1- Ice cream chart in KG2C.

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 2- Me, my MST and the Arabic teacher came out of the idea of the motivation chart
and connect it with culture things.

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 3- During the lesson sometimes I give stars special day for student we usually don’t
participate in order to encourage them.

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 Goal 4: Time management.

Previously stated development needs

Skills you
Personal
personally know
MCT development Needs of the setting
MST recommendation you need to interest
recommendation develop
 Organisation. Use timer. Timer.

Be always on  Good Have plan B Chart.

time. planning my incase plan A
time well. fail.

Concise Reflections & actuality

Goal Time management.
Action  Make sure to attend and
set the class before the
students come.
 Start and finish my lesson
within the time I planned
for the lesson.
 Set timer.
 Set list of goals I want to
reach.
 Practice my opining.
 Adapt myself to move to
plan B if plan A didn’t
work.
 Plan a head.
 Plan for potential crises.
Jennifer L.M. Gunn
(2020, May 12).
 Organize the classroom.
Time management was one of
the goals I personally focus on
my previous teaching practice
and for this teaching practice
my goal is to really implement
and manage my time well.
To make sure I manage my
time very wisely I set a timer
using my Apple Watch to keep
tracking the time without keep
looking to the screen on
looking for my phone to check
the time.
Make sure to set up my
classroom before the students
came and to make sure
everything is ready, and
organize the classroom and
setting up my activities.
Always ready to change from
plant A to plan B just in case
something went different than
I planned.

Describe the frame Semester 7 I think I did reach my goal for

this semester.
Any support needed  My MST feedback. I will ask my MST to observe
me and ask for her feedback.
Data collection tools to be used  Notes. Using timer and set a to do list

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to provide evidence of the
success of the action
Evidence (after implement
ation)
 To do list. or checklist helped me to
 Checklist. success the school.
 Timers.
 Planning. Good planning and follow the
notes I prepare for myself was
also very helpful t to reach my
goal.
After finishing the lesson I will
check my checklist And to do list
to see if I did all what I planned
for.

Documents for this goal

1- I always sit times on my apple watch to keep tracking the time.

2- During the whole group activity I put the activity in the carpet and ask the
students to start and I set the sand glass so both of me and students know how
much time we still have.

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 3- Note/planning: before starting my lesson, I take note and plan for what I’m going
to teach then share my ideas with my MST.

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 Goal 5: classroom management.

Previously stated development needs Skills you

Personal
MCT personally know Needs of the
MST development
recommendatio you need to setting
recommendation interest
n develop
# Creativity. # Confidence. # Behavior charts.
# Don’t rush to know
the students. # Communication # Clear in # Rewards.
with the students. structures.
# Take time to observe # Classroom rules.
the student’s behavior.
# Leading.

Concise Reflections & actuality

Goal Classroom management. Classroom management is one
of the most important skill a
teacher should implement in her
class that’s why I chose it as a
gold I want to make sure I
achieve this semester.
Action The classes I thought was well
 Let the students read the behaving however as usual in
rules with the teacher. each class there are some
 Diversety of students that need to manage her
management strategies behaviour.
such as behavior charts
classdojo points. As a daily routine I read the
 Give simple and clear rules in every opening lesson
instructions. then ask the students to read the
 Smile to the students. rules and show me the action,
(Youki Terada for example for good setting I
August 7, 2019) will say “show me a good
 Communicate clearly setting” to make sure they
and regularly. Zachary actually understand and know
Fruhling (2018, August how to follow others.
16).
 Observe the students In the first week I tried to focus
and try to understand on the students behaviors and
their behave. see who are the students that
needed to be control during the
 Set the classroom
centers and separate the the
environment and make
hyper students.
it appropriate to serve
the teacher one she

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Describe the frame
Any support needed
Data collection tools to be used
to provide evidence of the
success of the action
Evidence (after implement
ation)
Documents for this goal
1- Behavior chart for KG2A.
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teach.
 Separate the hyper
students.
Semester 7
 MST experience is and
how she can manage in
the class and deal with
the students behaviour.
 Do the same action the
MST do when the
students miss behave
and follow her routine.
 Keep reminding the
students with the rules.
 Classroom rules.
 Behaviour charts.
 Stickers.
Check the students behaviour
from the charts I use during the
lesson.
As a teacher I try to have a good
relationship between me and my
students because my behavior
and my attitude would reflect on
their behavior as well so I try to
be positive smiling at them.
I think I did reach my goal for
this semester.
My MST was the main source of
support for the school this goal I
learn from her classroom
management and try to do the
same strategies she do like
reminding the students of the
rules during the lesson if I saw
some misbehavior while I teach.
I use the classroom rules in my
PowerPoint slides and the rules
on the wall that near the
students.
I use the behavior charts I did
for the class and sometimes I
use stickers as a reward if they
behave well but if they
misbehave I use the behavior
chart the MST had in her class
before.
 2- Classroom rules.

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 3- Social distance rules.

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 4- Lesson rules.

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Exit tic ke t

Conclusion
My MST did help me to reach my goals she also provides me with good feedback and great
advises that can help me in the future as a teacher I had a good experience with her and with the
students.

My action plan for the next semester is to upgrade my professionalism and try to improve myself
attend more meetings to have a gain more experience.

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