Instructional Leadership/Professional Development Plan

Directions

Using the vision of a school, state curriculum standards, school improvement goals, and student achievement data, integrate your own vision of student learning into a professional development session that will help a selected group of teachers increase the academic gains of their diverse classroom populations.

Plan and facilitate a professional development session for a group of teachers that relates to curriculum standards, instruction, and/or assessment of learning. Include the following:

• A sustainable vision of student learning supported by resources
• Goals for the session, a communication plan for the school and other relevant stakeholders, activities that are research-based, and an assessment (aligned with session goals)
• Future plans for on-going evaluation and monitoring

Include consultation and direct communication with relevant stakeholders (e.g. teachers, administrators, community, families) and how you would use technology, and both human and fiscal capital to organize and implement the session.

The professional development session must be facilitated by you and must be a minimum of one-hour in length. After facilitating the professional development session, write a report that includes the following:

1. Development, articulation, and implementation of a vision of student learning
   • Include how your vision of student learning is aligned to the vision of the school.
   • Describe the process that was needed to implement and promote your vision and explain how you facilitated the planning and implementation of your vision.
   • Describe the communication plan that you used to share your vision.
2. Planning and implementation
   • List the stakeholders involved in the process and their roles, and explain how you included these stakeholders to support the process.
   • List the planning steps you took prior to implementation, and include how you organized and developed your plan using technology applications.
   • Discuss issues of school climate or culture uncovered during planning and who you included in the discussions of your findings.
   • Describe how you used internal and external resources to implement your plan.
3. Goals and topic(s) of the session
   • Identify the goals and topics for the session and how they align with the district’s or school’s improvement goals. The goals and topic(s) must be related to standards, curriculum, instruction, and/or assessment.
   • Explain how you used student demographic data and other school or community contextual data in preparing the session.
4. Presentation
   • Provide the arguments and/or evidence that supported the need for the professional development session, including relevant student achievement data.
   • Provide detailed information about the activities used in the session and why you chose those activities.
5. 5.Session assessment
   • Create an assessment that aligns to the goals and objectives of the presentation to be completed by participants during or after the session.
   • Report and analyze the assessment results.