TEPG Professional Goal Setting

Core Proposition 4: Teachers think systematically about their practice and learn from experience.

Teacher Name: ______Date: ______

Instructions: To complete this form, you’ll need the MSFE TEPG rubric, and other sources of data/evidence that can help your reflect meaningfully on your practice and areas for growth. When completed, the professional goal(s) needs to be approved by your evaluator.

Part 1: Reflect on Evidence and Data to Determine Areas for Professional Growth

Consider the sources of information that exist about your professional practice, such as standards the TEPG rubric, self-assessment(s), evidence of student learning and growth, and feedback others to identify opportunities for professional growth. Determine the standard or standards from the TEPG rubric that align with your identified area(s) for growth and select one area on which you would like to focus your Professional Goal. Detail your evidence/reflection process in the chart below.

Considering your evidence/data
TEPG Summary Effectiveness Rating Report Self-Evaluation from previous year
7C Survey Professional Growth Plan from previous year
Student Learning Objective Peer Observation
identify possible areas of growth:

Part 2: Writing Your Professional Goal

Based on your identified areas for professional growth, write a specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART) goal, as demonstrated in the examples below.

Example 1: From September 2014 to January 2015, I will consult research and/or other professional resources to learn strategies for conferring with writers and implement those strategies with my students during writing between February-May of 2015.

Example 2: By December 2014, I will examine research and/or other professional resources related to developing performance tasks and rubrics and create and implement two tasks/rubrics related to my 6th grade Science units by May 2015.

Professional Goal
(Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) / TEPG Standard(s)
Related to Identified Professional Goal

Part 3: Implementation Planning & Evidence

Develop an action plan that will support you as you work towards accomplishing your goals.

·  In the first column of the table below, identify (at least 3) implementation strategies that will help you achieve your goal. These might include professional growth opportunities that you will do independently, with a colleague, or through organized professional development such as: professional readings, workshops, coursework, self-study, collaboration, etc. These strategies may be things you are already doing or something new you’d like to try.

·  In the second column, identify how you will measure progress of your goal and what evidence or artifacts you will collect to demonstrate attainment. In the third column, summarize how this evidence or artifact and/or those that were demonstrates growth and progress towards your goal, including how you have incorporated these experiences into your practice over an extended period of time.

·  Reflection: in the spring, you will also reflect upon how these changes in practice/structures have impacted student performance and identify the next steps you might take related to these practices/structures.

·  This document will be shared, for approval and review, with your administrator at the beginning and end of the year.

Resources and Strategies for Learning and Implementation
(What you will do?) / Evidence of Progress
(How will you know you have met your goal? What evidence/artifacts might you collect?) / Evidence/Artifact of Professional Growth Related to the Goal and its significance/impact on practice and/or student learning
(To be completed at the end of the year)

Part 4: Spring Reflection

How have these changes in practice/structures impacted student performance? What are the next steps you might take related to these practices/structures? What went well through this process? What might you do differently?

Teacher Signature/Date: ______

Principal Signature/Date: ______