Individualized Professional Growth Plan

Name: Major(s)/Minor(s):
Emma Galvin Elementary Education major with Diverse Learners minor

Why are you pursuing this degree?

I chose to pursue this degree because of my desire to make a difference in kids’ lives. I have experienced the joy and power of
learning, and I want to share that with my future students. I want to be the teacher that some of mine were for me - compassionate,
kind, inclusive, supportive, and inspirational. Education and school should be a place that fosters growth and development of
students’ gifts and talents, as well as allows them to explore academics equally - I want to be a part of making that happen.
What do you want the outcome to be?
I would like to be a classroom teacher in any grade from kindergarten to fourth grade - my elementary school teachers are still some
of the role models I admire and respect when thinking about education. I want to become a teacher who values each student for who
they are, recognizing and supporting their needs, while creating a classroom environment that makes them feel safe and welcome,
which I believe is the best learning environment.
How are you going to work toward making that outcome possible?
I am continuing to pursue a degree and licensure in Elementary Education through the College of Education at Butler University. I
am going to explore clubs related to education and working with children, as well as job opportunities that involve education in some
form. I also will look for internships or research opportunities that will increase my professional experience and expand my
professional identity. In my senior year of college, I will also have the opportunity to student teach for two full semesters, which will
help prepare me for licensure. I am also exploring education through personal reflection, observations, readings, and investigation on
my own.
**Is the outcome directly related to your WHY?
Yes - my reasons why directly translate into my desired outcome.

Time Frame Personal Goals: Professional Goals:

(e.g. Positional goals, membership to (e.g. Gaining further skills, advancing
organizations, exploring opportunities, knowledge in specific areas, memberships
etc.) in professional associations)

Next Semester (Spring 2023) ● Stay active in BU Dance Club ● Look for (and if possible) get an
● Participate as a dancer in BU on-campus job
Dance Marathon ● Make more detailed observations
 ○ Raise at least $250 for when visiting schools in
Riley Hospital Indianapolis
● Continue to be involved with Cru ● Remain connected with old
○ Bible study teachers and first semester
○ Worship team professors
○ Weekly meetings ● Volunteer again for ALU Special
● Learn more about BU College Olympics Experience
Mentors for Kids ● Develop e-Portfolio and
professional identity

Next Year (2023-2024) ● Participate in BU Dance Club
● Remain a part of BU Dance
Marathon
● Audition (and hopefully) get cast
in BU Theatre’s musical
● Get involved with Cru on a higher
level
● Become a part of College Mentors
for Kids
● Finish BU CORE requirements
● Find and get a summer job that
involves working with kids
● Find and get an on-campus job
● Look for internships and research
opportunities related to education
● Develop e-Portfolio and
professional identity
● Join Butler’s Student Education
Association (SEA)
● Look into Kappa Delta Pi (Butler’s
honors education society)

Assets and Provocations

Planned Activities Objective of Alignment to Vision, How Activity

Development Activity Mission, Core Impacts Student
Values, Major, or Learning
Minor

Required - Read three books - to understand more - creating a positive and - I have to know how to
knowledge/skills about disabilities about how to promote inclusive environment support learners of all
(fiction or nonfiction) inclusivity in my daily life for all kinds of learners kinds in order to
Consider: and in my future provide them with the
● Required - attend discussions classroom - creating a classroom best education possible
competencies: led by the COE or that is representative of
 like COE Core Butler University on - to help me to become all my students’ culture, - In order to have strong
Value diversity and more culturally background, and relationships with my
Proficiencies, different cultures responsive, as well as interests students, I must show
professional understand different - help my students feel them that they are
standards for cultures that I may valued and heard valued, represented,
your content or encounter in my and heard
licensure professional career

Assets/Strengths - take an ethics/social - develop my passion for - becoming an advocate - support my students
justice focused course social justice for justice and and advocate for their
Consider: - allow me to better inclusivity in education needs
● Your views - become a member explore the issues and the world - ensure that my
● Recent of College Mentors affecting the US and students all have equal
assessments for Kids world today - becoming better at opportunities and are
● Other people’s using various forms of treated with respect
views - I love working with kids learning,
- help me learn how to communication, and - I will be able to better
build trust and a education to connect support different kinds
relationship with a with a child and build of learners
student relationships - I will better
- help to make a understand what it
difference in kids’ lives takes to build and
maintain relationships
with students

Provocations/Growth - get an on-campus - possible opportunities - gaining field - I will be better at

job and a summer job to work with kids experience that will help recognizing the needs of
Consider: - learn how to budget me learn how to better students, as well as
● Gaps in - find an successfully and pay work with students working with them over
knowledge/skills education-based taxes - learning how to work a long period of time
● Opportunities on internship or in a professional setting - big difference
the horizon research opportunity - learn more about my between babysitting
● What specific to participate in future profession - increasing my amount and working over a
actions will help - learn about how certain of professional 8-10 period
you to progress in things affect students or experience
your role? the educational system - opportunity to further - I will better

Individual Professional Growth Plan Activity Log
(1)
Description of professional
development activity completed
1. Read The Power of Disability by
Al Etmanski and discussed it in
ED 242 (Foundations of Special
Education)
2. Volunteered at the ALU Special
Olympics Experience
3. (in progress) Got a job as a
coach/counselor at my high school
theatre program’s one-week
summer camp (MasterAct) - I will
be working with 6th-12th graders
- broaden knowledge develop my professional understand how to fix
about a professional identity problems in my
work environment - become more familiar classroom to improve
with the Indianapolis the educational
educational community experience for my
students
- I will develop skills to
become an agent of
change in order to
provide an equitable
and respectful
environment for my
students
(2) (3)
Time frame Connection to your stated objective
7 weeks (August 30, 2022 - October 25, I started to learn about how to promote
2022) (14 hours - 2 hours per week) inclusivity in the classroom, as well as
how to support all kinds of learners in the
classroom.
October 9, 2022: 11:30am-2:15pm (2 I was able to meet and celebrate people
hours, 45 minutes) with disabilities, as well as learn from the
athletes and their experiences.
Received application request and I found and got a summer job that allows
committed: September 28, 2022 (15 me to work with kids.
minutes) This will allow me to gain field experience
Camp: June 19-24, 2023 - will update in a teaching and mentoring setting, as
hours after job is completed well as give me helpful insight into
classroom management skills outside of a

4. Connected with a middle school
teacher
5. Began identity work and
self-portrait with Dr. Harris Garad
and Dr. Madrazo
6. Read Ungifted by Gordon Korman
and discussed it in ED242
(Foundations of Special
Education)
7. Attended a virtual webinar called
“The Case for Reforming Indiana
Law on Prosecuting Children in
Adult Courts”
August 2022 (approximately 30 minutes)
November 1, 2022: 10:00-11:55am
November 3, 2022: 9:35-11:55am
(4 hours, 15 minutes total)
2 weeks (November 2, 2022 - November
15, 2022) (2 hours, 20 minutes - 1 hour,
10 minutes per week)
November 16, 2022: 12:00pm-1:00pm (1
hour)
classroom setting.
I was able to share my experiences so far
from college with a mentor that inspires
me. I was able to get support and
encouragement, and I was reminded of
the importance of maintaining
relationships.
I am continuing to develop my
professional identity, which will allow me
to better understand who I am and who I
aspire to be as an educator. I am learning
how to articulate my ideas and thoughts
through multiple media types, which gives
me skills to help teach different types of
learners.
I am deepening my knowledge about
disabilities and inclusion by working
towards one of my goals: reading three
books about disabilities (fiction or
nonfiction). This helps me to better
understand the power and necessity of
inclusion, as well as introduce me to
possible ways to better assist learners
with disabilities in my future classroom.
I have a passion for social justice, and I
believe it has a large role in maintaining
inclusion in the classroom. By expanding
my knowledge of this injustice in Indiana
and how it affects possible future
students, I am more aware of how to best
serve students as an educator. As an
educator, I want to be as supportive as
 possible for my students, which means I
need to understand challenges that may
come up in my career.

Total PD Hours 25 hours, 20 minutes