Fullerton Online Teacher Induction Program

Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) – Teacher Leader

Project Option
Revised 1.1.19
Directions: The ILP should be completed with Mentor input. Complete blue cells prior to classroom implementation. Complete orange cells after POP Cycle is completed. Cells will expand as needed.
When submitting completed ILP to instructor, please include copies of all instructional resources, including Google Survey used for assessment of audience satisfaction.
Section 1: New Teacher Information
New Teacher Email Subject Area Grade Level
Paige Greif paigegreif@yahoo.com Psychology 9-12
Mentor Email School/District Date
Samantha Burkes Sburkes@calca.connectionsacademy.org Connections Academy 2/24/22
Section 2: CSTP Areas of Inquiry
Directions: Identify 2-3 CSTP elements for ILP focus. Use most recent CSTP Assessment for Initial Rating. Identify both teacher and student rating for CSTP 1 and 2. See example.
CSTP Element Initial Rating Description Goal Rating Description
T - Facilitates systematic opportunities for students to
apply critical thinking by designing structured inquires into
T - Guide students to think critically through use of questioning strategies,
Promoting critical thinking complex problems.
T – Applying posing/solving problems, and reflection on issues in content. T – Innovating
1.5 through inquiry, problem solving, S - Students pose and answer a wide-range of complex
S – Exploring S - Students respond to varied questions or tasks designed to promote comprehension S - Innovating
and reflection questions and problems, reflect, and communicate
and critical thinking in single lessons or a sequence of lessons.
understandings based on in depth analysis of content
learning.

Facilitates collaboration with

colleagues.

Facilitates collaboration with colleagues. Works to ensure the broadest

Collaborating with positive impact possible on
colleagues and the Works to ensure the broadest positive impact instructional practice and
broader possible on instructional practice and student student achievement at school
professional achievement at school and district levels and and district levels and for the
6.3 Innovating Innovating
community to for the profession. profession.
support teacher
and student Initiates and develops professional learning Initiates and develops
learning opportunities with the broader professional professional learning
community focused on student achievement. opportunities with the broader
professional community
focused on student
achievement.
Models professionalism and
Managing Models professionalism and supports supports colleagues in meeting
professional colleagues in meeting and exceeding and exceeding professional
responsibilities to professional responsibilities effectively. responsibilities effectively.
6.6 maintain Innovating Innovating
motivation and Supports colleagues to maintain the Supports colleagues to maintain
commitment to all motivation, resiliency, and energy to ensure the motivation, resiliency, and
students that all students achieve. energy to ensure that all
students achieve.
Section 3: Teacher Leader Inquiry Focus and Planning
Project Title Inquiry Question Project Objective(s)
My presentation will provide
How can I use my experiences during
teachers with a basic overview
student teaching to enhance the
Using Nearpod to Increase LiveLesson Engagement of how to use Nearpod, as well
professional repertoire of the other
as demonstrations of the
educators in my school environment.
technology in use.
Audience for Project How Project Fits into Professional Goals and/or How Audience Satisfaction will be
(Who Participates/Who Benefits) Department/School/District Needs Assessed
Our school has made the transition from My presentation will be
Adobe Connect to Zoom this school year, followed up by a survey, where
All teachers at my school, though my project will be which has left a gap in our collective colleagues will have the ability
specifically presented to the High School team. knowledge of EdTech resources to be to rate my presentation, ask
utilized for engaging students during questions, and provide
LiveLessons. suggestions.
Special Emphasis: Teacher Leader Model Standards and NBPTS Core Propositions
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Directions: Identify at least one NBPTS and at least one Teacher Leader Model Standards that are the primary focus of your project. Explain how these standards will be incorporated.
Special Emphasis Focus How Special Emphasis will be Incorporated
NBPTS: 5.1: Teachers collaborate with other
professionals to improve school effectiveness.
The presentation I give will be very interactive, and will allow educators to come
Teacher Leader Model Standards: 3a: Collaborates with together and share ideas in a collaborative environment to improve our overall
colleagues and school administrators to plan professional LiveLesson engagement. The presentation will be a direct reference to a tool
learning that is team-based, job-embedded, sustained that can be used, and will walk teachers through what the experience is like.
over time, aligned with content standards, and linked to
school/district improvement goals.
Inquiry Implementation Plan
Discuss Results with
Analyze Results
Milestone 1 Milestone 2 Milestone 3 Mentor
Milestone 4
Milestone 5
Receive approval for Discuss
Identify name and date for Present to HS Analyze
activities. presenting at a staff Prepare presentation results with
staff members results
meeting. Mentor
3/15 3/30 4/5 4/6-4/7 4/8
I will be presenting a professional development opportunity to my fellow high school teachers. I will
Provide 1-2 sentence summary of
your teacher leader project.
demonstrate an EdTech tool that can be incorporated into our LiveLessons to enhance student engagement
and increase learning outcomes.
Summarize process for analyzing I will utilize survey data associated with my presentation to gauge the effectiveness of my leadership, as
effectiveness of leadership role. reported by my colleagues.
Section 4: Inquiry Research and Exploration
Research/Professional Learning (Identify two articles that have informed inquiry focus. Provide title, URL or citation, and statement of what was learned.)
Article #1: Lowry-Brock, M. R. (201+). The effect of using Article #1: Interactive educational tools, such as Nearpod, allow educators to gain
Nearpod as a tool of active learning in the high school science valuable insight and data from students in real-time. With customizable assessments,
classroom (Master's thesis). JulyRetrieved from teachers can easily assess student comprehension of content, and adjust instruction in
https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/10072 real-time. Students tend to prefer the active engagement of technologies like Nearpod
over passive learning strategies.
Article #2: Garrison, E., Colin, S., Lemberger, O., & Lugod, M.
(2021, February). Interactive learning for nurses through Article #2: In the education of adults, gamification can increase knowledge acquisition
gamification. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 51(2), compared to traditional methods of education. Gamification often leads to enhanced
95-100. doi:10.1097/NNA.0000000000000976 engagement, even from adult learners. This is an important stance, and could be
incorporated into future trainings for our school setting.

Colleagues (Summarize how two colleagues have addressed similar leadership roles OR the status of the issue at department/school/district level.)
Ryan is a fellow social studies teacher. He has conducted a mini-training this year at the
high school level focused on strategies for supporting struggling students. My
presentation ties closely into this, as enhancing LiveLesson engagement would also likely
benefit struggling students.
Ryan Dreifus

Hollie is an English teacher at my school. She gave a mini-training on using demo

Hollie Ayers
CSTP Element
Promoting critical thinking
1.5 through inquiry, problem
solving, and reflection
accounts in our system. During her training, she actually walked teachers through the
process of utilizing demo accounts, which is what I plan to do with Nearpod. I think the
visualization of how the technology is actually employed enhances learning outcomes
exponentially.
Section 5: Results and Reflection
Revised Suggestions for Moving
Initial Rating Evidence/Rational for Rating
Rating Forward
To move to INNOVATING level: Consider how
to increase complexity of task beyond a single
Teacher asked questions of analysis and evaluation.
T – Applying T – Integrating lesson so that there are continuing
Students answered questions that included all levels of Bloom’s. Students created their own
S – Exploring S - Integrating opportunities for students to engage in inquiry
math problems.
in complex problem. How could you extend
lesson into PBL?

6.3 Collaborating Innovating Innovating Teacher presented a demonstration and training to One way to expand the
with colleagues in order to facilitate their professional rating of innovating would
colleagues and development. The presentation benefits the entire be to host a more in-
the broader school community because they can continue to depth training on
professional reference it as needed to benefit not only Nearpod or other similar
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 educational tools.
community to
Interactive strategies such
support
as breakout rooms could
teacher and themselves, but their students as well.
be used to give colleagues
student
hands-on experience with
learning
these tools.
Again, consider expanding
Managing
Teacher maintained professional responsibilities this training into a multi-
professional
and interactions with students, while budgeting day workshop where
responsibilities
time to plan for this presentation. teachers have more
to maintain
6.6 Innovating Innovating hands-on time to work
motivation
Creating/presenting this training did not take away with educational tools
and
from any time or effort given to students by and get a feel for how
commitment
teacher. they can incorporate
to all students
them in their lessons.
Special Emphasis (Teacher Leader Model Standards or NBPTS Core Propositions
Key Learnings and New Skills/Knowledge Developed by Contribution to
Product(s) Generated
Teacher Others/Department/School/District
My fellow teachers gained
valuable insight into a tool that
can enhance their instruction,
NBPTS: 5.1: Teachers collaborate with other professionals benefitting not only teachers but
to improve school effectiveness. their students as well. Though I
Presentation (Google Slides) on Nearpod presented this to the High
Presentation Notes/Handout School team, the recording was
Teacher Leader Model Standards: 3a: Collaborates with Demonstration of how to use Nearpod shared to other grade bands and
colleagues and school administrators to plan professional Recording of entire presentation for can be utilized by them, which
learning that is team-based, job-embedded, sustained reference ultimately is a tool useful for the
over time, aligned with content standards, and linked to whole school/district. I am also
school/district improvement goals. available to help individuals, and
anyone within my district can
reach me through Google Chat
or Gmail.
Mentor Feedback
Directions: The Mentor should Identify strengths and areas of improvement in each of the following areas.
Your resources were very good overall. They were easy to read and not too
busy. One thing I would suggest to make your presentation even more engaging
Effectiveness of resources designed by Candidate, including
presentation, notes, handouts, and other resources.
would be to include GIFs of things you demonstrated in Nearpod. That way,
those who did not get to attend the training live can still have the benefit of
seeing these steps in action.
Your presentation was very effective for teaching adults. The fact that you
Effectiveness of Candidate in teaching and coaching adults. (Refer to
provided options for hands-on experiences made a great learning opportunity
Adult Learning Principles in FOTIP Handbook
[https://www.fotip.org/adult-learning-theory.html]. for our staff. Additionally, your presentation had a very clear purpose and it was
very applicable to our teaching environment.
This topic is extremely valuable to your audience. As we have transitioned to
Zoom this year, it is very beneficial to expose other teachers to useful
Value of topic for audience.
educational technology that can be incorporated into their LiveLessons to
enhance student engagement and learning outcomes.
Very well done overall. Your pacing was good, and your audience was very
Overall delivery by Candidate of the professional development engaged, as evidenced by their participation in your Nearpod and other
experience, including audience engagement, pacing, tone, and response interactive elements of the presentation. One suggestion would be to
to questions. remember to monitor the chat and answer questions more frequently, so you
can address each question as it is asked.
Analysis and Summary of Audience Assessment
Directions: Record assessment data into Assessment Data Table (see end of document). Include copies of assessment tool with submission. Include at least one graph in your summary.

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Overall, my colleagues reported high satisfaction with my presentation. A majority of colleagues had little to no experience using Nearpod in
the classroom before my presentation. Because of time constraints, I did have to send out my survey after the presentation, so I likely had
less respondents than I would have if I had been able to have all meeting participants take it immediately following my training. The majority
of those who responded stated that they would feel confident or very confident in their ability to implement Nearpod into their LiveLessons.
This lends to the effectiveness of my presentation and demonstration. Additionally, over 90% of participants reported believing that
Nearpod would help increase student engagement during LiveLessons. Increasing engagement will lead to improved learning outcomes and
student satisfaction, which I believe is crucial at an independent-study, online school.

Action Items (some may not be applicable)

For curriculum design, lesson Consider making a more in-depth assessment to gather more data on student/teacher achievement and
planning, assessment planning outcomes from this presentation.

For classroom practice N/A

For teaching English learners,
students with special needs, and
students with other instructional
Ensure all materials are accessible and designed according to Universal Design principles.
challenges
For future professional Consider creating a multi-day workshop to give teachers more small-group and in-depth time to work through
development learning these tools and practice implementing them in a classroom setting.
For supporting Make this recording and presentation/resources available to anyone within the school/district who wants to
others/department/ access it. Make it known I am available to assist teachers in implementing these resources, and can be reached
school/district via Chat or Gmail.

Other N/A
Other Notes and Comments

Include copy of Google Survey Form assessment tool.

Link to assessment

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