Individual Teacher Professional Development Plan for TECHNOLOGY (PDP-T) Template

Teacher Name

Assignment/Department/Grade Level

Date

Kailyn Dunn

Language Arts/7th Grade

11/26/2014

I. Areas Identified for Development of Professional Practice with Technology

No.
1
2
3

Areas Identified for Development

Improving students writing by giving them the opportunity to
speak their papers.
Create and have students create more visual aids for what they
are learning.
Use more interactive technology to teach common core,
especially a love for reading.

Rationale/Sources of Evidence (why?)

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/3-strategies-improve-student-writing-ali-parrish
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/subject/int_tech_lit_la.phtml
http://www.techforteachers.net/language-arts.html

II. Professional Learning Network Resources and Strategies (list online sources and how you will monitor them)
No.
1

Network Resource
Talk to Me App

Dragon Diction App

3
4

The Writing Machine App

Lit Charts App

Book Creator App

Adapted from: New Jersey Department of Education PDP Plan

Strategy
Students can read their papers/work to the app. I will then be able to monitor
what they are writing and learning.
Students can recite anything to the Dragon Diction App which will help them get
their words on paper easier.
Students will be able to better relate their pictures and words.
Students will be able to edit charts that focus on literature and help them find
common core necessities.
Students will be able to easily create their own story.

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II. Professional Learning Goals and Activities

Ar
ea
No
.
1

Professional Learning Goals

Improving students writing by giving

them the opportunity to speak their
papers.

Create and have students create more

visual aids for what they are learning.

Use more interactive technology to teach

common core, especially a love for
reading.

Initial Activities

Follow-up Activities
(as appropriate)

Students will use Dragon Diction App to

recite a prewritten paper in order to
practice using the app.

Students will use Dragon Diction

App to write a paragraph about
their opinion on a book we read.

Apple Device
& Dragon
Diction App

Mar.
2015

Students will use Speak to Write App in

groups to make up a story. Each student
should take turns saying a word to
create the story.
Students will use Speak to Write App in
groups to record ideas they have for a
book they are going to create and write.

Students will think of other ideas

and stories they could write.

Apple Device
& Speak to
Write App

May
2015

Students will use Speak to Write

App to type their group book.

Apple Device
& Speak to
Write App

May
2015

Students will use The Writing Machine

App to relate their vocabulary words to
pictures.
Students will use the Lit Charts App to
create charts regarding common core as
seen in books the students are reading
in the class.

Students will review the pictures

and associated vocabulary words.

Apple Device
& The Writing
Machine App
Apple Device
& Lit Charts
App

Ongoing
May
2015
Ongoing
May
2015

Students will work in groups to use the

Book Creator app to create a story that
teaches a common core standard.
Students will use the Book Creator App
to continue a novel read in the class.

Students will use their book and

their classmates books as review
tools.

Mar.
2015

Students will use the Lit Charts App to

teach themselves more about common
core ideas.

Students will use their charts as a

review tool.

Apple Device
& Book
Creator App
Apple Device
& Book
Creator App
Apple Device
& Lit Charts
App

Adapted from: New Jersey Department of Education PDP Plan

Resources
(including
Online)

Students will review the charts as

a study tool.

Completi
on Date

Apr.
2015
Feb.
2015

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III. District and School PDP Support

District/School Administrator Support Activities

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My signature below indicates that I have received a copy of this Professional Development Plan and that I understand and contributed to its
contents.
Teacher Signature: __Kailyn M. Dunn_____________________________

Supervisor Signature: ______________________________________

Date: ___11/26/14_______

Title: ________________________________ Date: __________

FYI: How this will look later.

Adapted from: New Jersey Department of Education PDP Plan

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IV. PDP Progress Summary

Interim Review of PDP Progress
Area
No.
1

Demonstrated Progress

Sources of Evidence

PDP Revisions (if applicable)

Review
Date

2
3
My signature below indicates that I have reviewed the information recorded in the Interim Review of PDP Progress and that I understand its contents:

Staff Members Signature: ____________________________

Date: ______________

Summative Review of PDP Progress

Area
No.

Professional Learning Goals

Expectations
Met (Y) or
Not Met (N)

Sources of Evidence

Summative
Review Date

1
2
3
My signature below indicates that I have reviewed the information recorded in the Summative Review of PDP Progress and that I understand its contents:

Staff Members Signature: ____________________________

Adapted from: New Jersey Department of Education PDP Plan

Date: ______________

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