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
Nicholas Espalin nespalin@gmail.com Chemistry High School
Mentor Email School/District Date
California Connections
Brittany Ray bray@calca.connectionsacademy.org 2/24/23
Academy
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
T - Guide students to think critically through use of questioning strategies,
Promoting critical thinking into complex problems.
T – Applying posing/solving problems, and reflection on issues in content. T – Innovating
1.5 through inquiry, problem S - Students pose and answer a wide-range of complex
S – Exploring S - Students respond to varied questions or tasks designed to promote S - Innovating
solving, and reflection questions and problems, reflect, and communicate
comprehension and critical thinking in single lessons or a sequence of lessons.
understandings based on in depth analysis of content
learning.

Uses broad knowledge of

Demonstrating
Understands and explains the inter-relationships of
knowledge of
relationship between essential T- concepts, academic content
subject matter T-
3.1 subject matter concepts, Integratin standards, and academic
academic Applying academic language, and g language in ways that ensure
content
academic content standards. clear connections and
standards
relevance to students.
  Organizing Integrates knowledge of
curriculum to curriculum and resources to
Uses knowledge of curriculum and
facilitate student readiness to organize and adjust T- organize and adjust
3.3 student T-Applying
the curriculum to ensure student Integrating instruction within and across
understanding understanding. subject matter to extend
of the subject student understanding.
matter
Section 3: Teacher Leader Inquiry Focus and Planning
Project Title Inquiry Question Project Objective(s)
The project will be a
professional development
training that will go over
Will trainings on NGSS aligned lessons NGSS curriculum lessons and
Chemistry New Curriculum Transition help teachers prepare for curriculum how they can be incorporated
transition? in the curriculum with a focus
on cross cutting with
engineering technology
topics.
Audience for Project How Project Fits into Professional Goals How Audience Satisfaction will be
(Who Participates/Who Benefits) and/or Department/School/District Needs Assessed
Our school will be implementing
A survey will be sent out to
new chemistry curriculum in which
The chemistry team as well as other science department each member that attended
chemistry teachers will need to
members. to provide feedback on the
know how new standards align with
presentation
lessons.
Special Emphasis: Teacher Leader Model Standards and NBPTS Core Propositions
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 Proposition 2: Teachers know the subjects they Focusing on the NBPTS proposition 2, I will be training teachers on the
teach and how to teach those subjects to students. new curriculum, and I will be learning the new curriculum and the
subject to be a more effective teacher.

Teacher Leader Model:  Domain 4. Facilitating Focusing on the teacher leader model domain 4, I will be facilitating
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 Improvements in Instruction and Student Learning. improvements in instruction by providing a training on incorporating
NGSS into lessons which will improve student learning.

Inquiry Implementation Plan

Discuss Results with
Analyze Results
Milestone 1 Milestone 2 Milestone 3 Mentor
Milestone 4
Milestone 5
Discuss
colleague
Sending out
Planning feedback
feedback on
Meeting with mentor and presentation and with mentor
Identify name and date for Doing the presentation
discussing teacher project reviewing the as well as
activities. presentation and
inquiry questions. presentations with post
analyzing
my mentor. presentation
feedback
feedback
from mentor.
Mar 20th Mar 24th
Feb 24th, 2023 Mar 10th 2023 Mar 17th, 2023
2023 2023
Provide 1-2 sentence summary of I will be doing a 15 minute presentation with my school’s chemistry team to train them on implementing
your teacher leader project. NGSS lessons intro chemistry curriculum by focusing on student engagement on science practices.
I will be analyzing the feedback from colleagues from the survey I will send out shortly after the
Summarize process for analyzing
effectiveness of leadership role.
presentation. Also we will be analyzing student data for next year’s curriculum focusing on NGSS aligned
lessons.
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.)
1. Curriculum Development: Teacher Involvement in
Curriculum Development
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1095725.pdf
Merfat Ayesh Alsubaie 1. For first article I learned the benefits of having the staff have a
2. Planning NGSS-Based Instruction Where do you say and help with implementing new curriculum for the school.
start? 2. From the second article I learned how to implement NGSS
https://static.nsta.org/pdfs/samples/ standards into lessons with a focus on engaging students in
tst1602_51.pdf science practices.
Mary Colson and Russ Colson

Colleagues (Summarize how two colleagues have addressed similar leadership roles OR the status of the issue at department/school/district level.)
One colleague is the PLC lead member for the biology A colleague is the leader of the new curriculum team. He is involved in
team. We both share PLC leadership roles. She provided picking the curriculum and trains staff and faculty on new curriculum
trainings on the new curriculum for the biology team that standards as well as updates and feedback from staff members. The
incorporated NGSS aligned standards. feedback from staff member helps with rolling out new curriculum.
Section 5: Results and Reflection
Initial Suggestions for Moving
CSTP Element Revised Rating Evidence/Rational for Rating
Rating Forward
To move to INNOVATING level: Consider
how to increase complexity of task beyond a
Promoting critical thinking Teacher asked questions of analysis and evaluation.
T – Applying T – Integrating single lesson so that there are continuing
1.5 through inquiry, problem Students answered questions that included all levels of Bloom’s. Students created
S – Exploring S - Integrating opportunities for students to engage in
solving, and reflection their own math problems.
inquiry in complex problem. How could you
extend lesson into PBL?

Demonstrating To move to innovating I

knowledge of I am actively learning the current curriculum will learn multiple ways
subject matter T- to stay up to date and understand the to incorporate the
3.1 T- Integrating
academic Applying material to better support my students for standards and master
content my teaching practice. content to better help
standards student achievement.
3.3 Organizing T- T-Integrating I am currently helping with the curriculum To move to innovating I
curriculum to Applying transition team to help understand the NGSS will continue to
facilitate curriculum and plan for the upcoming school understand the
student year. curriculum extensively
understanding to master the concepts
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 of the subject and standards to help
matter my teacher practice.

Special Emphasis (Teacher Leader Model Standards or NBPTS Core Propositions

Contribution to
Key Learnings and New Skills/Knowledge Developed by Teacher Product(s) Generated Others/Department/School/Distri
ct
I created a presentation to train
chemistry and science staff on NGSS This project will teach my
For this project there was an emphasis the NBPTS Core
aligned lesson planning. I created a school’s chemistry team and
Proposition 2 where I learned how the curriculum can be
NGSS student inquiry lesson as a other science department
taught to students and how the subject matter can be
sample to explore the components of members the foundations of
aligned with the standards. Also NBPTS Proposition 5 was
NGSS embedded in the lesson. I also NGSS. I will also train the team
used in the presentation because of working collaborating
created a notes page and a handout on how to implement NGSS
with a team of PLC colleagues and training together and
to give the members in the training to within our curriculum and
learning the new standards which also promoted the use
follow along with. Finally I created a create lessons to align with the
the TMS domain IV standard.
quiz for teacher feedback after the standards.
presentation.
Mentor Feedback
Directions: The Mentor should Identify strengths and areas of improvement in each of the following areas.

I thought the presentation went very well. The presentation highlighted

Effectiveness of resources designed by Candidate, including presentation,
notes, handouts, and other resources.
Effectiveness of Candidate in teaching and coaching adults. (Refer to
Adult Learning Principles in FOTIP Handbook
[https://www.fotip.org/adult-learning-theory.html].
the main ideas and the handouts aligned with the information being
presented.
I can see you have a good relationship with your team and your PLC
leader skills made the presentation go well with your colleagues. While
looking to principles of adult learning I see how to self-directed your
colleagues and provided a scenario (the lesson plan) to where they can
incorporate it in their practice.

The topic is valuable for the chemistry PLC because they will be
Value of topic for audience.
incorporating the standards in lessons for the upcoming school year.

Overall I thought the delivery went well, the other members were
Overall delivery by Candidate of the professional development engaged and I can see that you have good communicating skills with
experience, including audience engagement, pacing, tone, and response them. I would suggest for the pacing to slow down especially when
to questions. going over the lessons and allow a little bit more time to answer
questions especially during the sample lesson portion.
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.

For the assessment I provided a google form survey to assess teacher satisfaction of the presentation. All members present
completed the survey. Findings of the survey included rating portions of the presentation they thought were helpful or not and how
they can incorporate information into their teaching practice. I also ended the survey with feedback in which teachers can provide
any additional information on what they thought worked and needed improvement of the presentation. Overall teachers that
completed the survey agreed that it was an effective presentation and it would help them when planning for next year’s curriculum.
Teacher feedback addressed the need for more information and I will use that as an opportunity to hold additional meetings to help
teachers transition to new curriculum for next year.

Action Items (some may not be applicable)

For curriculum design, lesson I will use the information learned in preparation of the presentation to help plan for next year’s
planning, assessment planning curriculum because the curriculum was the topic of the presentation.
I will use the information learned to directly impact my teaching practice by incorporating aspects of the
For classroom practice
curriculum learned into the curriculum for next year.
For teaching English learners,
students with special needs, and
students with other instructional
n/a
challenges
For future professional I am going to hold future professional development sessions focusing on the topic covered which is the
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 curriculum for next year. I will also attend professional development sessions that are curriculum
development
focused.
For supporting
I will hold and present future professional development sessions to further support faculty in new
others/department/
school/district curriculum transition topics.

Other

Other Notes and Comments

Link to google survey assessment tool: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11z5JXr9i7kJCN5e8SSB7Kk2HKgsAsuHDK9TPnT8SDyQ/edit

Include copy of Google Survey Form assessment tool.

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