Individual Professional Development Plan (IPDP)  Instructions (Mr. Ward wants these completed by the end of the first nine week period.)

Step 1: Go to http://www.paec.org/

Step 2:  Find the green box in the middle of the page under the Florida Learns Academy.

Step3:  Click on Member Transcript.

Step 4:  Select Jackson and then select Marianna High School from the dropdown menus.

Step 5:  Find your name in the dropdown menu and then enter your revised password.

Step 6:  Click on the Individual Professional Development Plan button.

Step 7:  Fill out the plan.  All you have to do is cut and paste the highlighted material into the correct answer box.  You will have to add a goal that relates to your subject area on number 4, but the goal here will work as your second goal.  Do not cut and paste the questions. Be sure to click the SAVE DATA button when you finish working.  You do not have to finish the plan in one sitting.  You may save your work and come back to it.

1. What data are you using to establish your professional development plan for the current academic year? Examine the disaggregated data to establish student skills that require targeting.

FCAT

According to the 2008 FCAT for reading, Marianna High School students scored as follows:

51% met high standards (scoring at levels 3-5 on the FCAT)
46% at or above grade level
55% made learning gains on the 2008 FCAT
41% of the lowest 25% made learning gains on the 2008 FCAT
58% of White students read at or above grade level
17% of African American students read at or above grade level
19% of economically disadvantaged students read at or above grade level
11% of Students with diabilities read at or above grade level


Subgroups demonstrating need for improvement:
Whites, African American, Economically Disadvantaged, Students with Disabilities

 

2.  Are you considering any national, state, district, or school wide initiatives in the development of your IPDP?
Answer: School wide initiative: School-wide Instructional Strategies

Description:
Marianna High School's Literacy Council will continue to support teachers using the school wide instructional strategies such as think alouds, anticipation guides, graphic organizers, and Cornell Notes. In addition, strategies related to vocabulary will be added, such as "Word of the Week".  Teachers across the content areas will use these strategies in an effort to make the strategies transparent and transportable to increase student comprehension.

3. School Improvement Component: Reading
Description of the School Improvement Component: 50% or more of the lowest 25% of students will make adequate progress as determined by 2009 FCAT Sunshine State Standards reading component scores. This percentage will increase by 1% in 2010.

4. Goal: Students in my class will demonstrate learning gains equal to one year's worth of growth in reading.
 Objective: I will increase my understanding of Cornell Notes, graphic organizers, anticipation guides, think alouds and professional learning communities.
 Professional Development: I plan to participate in the school-wide professional learning communities to continue to receive support on the school wide instructional strategies.  I will also study the additional vocabulary acquisition  strategies.
How will I implement these activities with students? I will use the school-wide instructional strategies in my lessons.
What are the expected student outcomes? At least 52% of the students in my class will demonstrate learning gains equal to one year's worth of growth in reading.

You need to add a goal related to your subject area.  If you are a math teacher, you could amend this next goal and use it.
Goal: My students will demonstrate proficiency in math as tested by FCAT.
Objective: I will study the test specs for FCAT Math as they relate to geometry. I will increase instructional time spent on the topics that are heavily tested.
 Professional Development: I will work with the reading coach to retrieve test specs. She is an expert at decoding test specs.
How will I implement these activities with students? I will incorporate the knowledge gained in my lessons.
What are the expected student outcomes? At least 55% of the students in my class will demonstrate learning gains equal to one year's worth of growth in math.
 

6. Do you have plans to participate in a professional learning community or carry out an action research project during this academic year?
Answer: Yes.  I will  participate in the Professional Learning Community facilitated by the Literacy Council during my planning period one Wednesday a month.  In this PLC I will share best practices as they relate to the needs of our students.  I will also participate in a book study related to improving the reading abilities of the lowest 25% and closing the achievement gap between subgroups.