What is in your Professional Development Plan?

Here are some ideas about what might normally be included. Your Performance Assessment may highlight some goals that you and your supervisor have identified. Additional there is a checklist below with some specific trainings and experiences that CETL has sponsored in the past.

  • Professional Goals - Career
  • Training Needs
  • Education – Advanced Degree
  • Mentoring
  • Job Shadowing
  • Leadership Training
  • Conference Attendance
  • Skill Improvement
  • Technical Training

Madison College

Professional Development Planning Tool

Name:

I. Identify 2-5 Opportunities for Improvement

[Make each a specific goal]

E.g. “I will learn to use Outlook to create department vacation/training schedules.”

II. Identify specific Actions for each goal.

[Provide a time frame for each action]

E.g. “By May 1st of 2011 I will learn to use my Outlook calendar to improve time management.”

III. Identify Resources required for achieving goals

[Resources may include time, support from internal units, funding, etc.]

e.g. “I will need $400 to enroll in and 2 days off work to take an Outlook Calendar workshop and 2 additional hours each week until May 1st to set up my calendar.”

College Wide / Universal Required Training

  • FERPA
  • Environmental Health +Safety
  • Orientation
  • First Friday
  • Sexual Harassment Online
  • Preventing Discrimination in the Workplace Online
  • College Email System
  • Cisco Phone Training
  • My Madison College Portal
  • PeopleSoft Time and Labor

Faculty – Certification Courses & Workshops

  • Curriculum & Course Construction
  • Philosophy of Vocational Education
  • Teaching Methods
  • Educational Psychology
  • Educational Evaluation & Assessment
  • Guidance & Counseling
  • Educational Diversity
  • Leadership & Supervision
  • Chair/Program Director Academy
  • Leadership Academy
  • Ethics of Teaching
  • Fearless Facilitation
  • Faculty Mentoring Workshop
  • On Course Student Success
  • Preparing to Teach Online
  • Preparing to Teach Hybrid
  • Accelerated Teaching Methods

Position Specific

  • PeopleSoft Financials – Budget Management
  • PeopleSoft Human Resources
  • PeopleSoft Student Administration
  • Cognos
  • Mechanical Training
  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Windows OS 7
  • Mobile Computing
  • Adobe
  • Public Safety I
  • Customer Service
  • Time Management
  • Blackboard Learning Management System
  • Smart Classroom Systems
  • Telepresence

Unit Specific

  • Blood-borne pathogens
  • Labs Safety
  • Tag & Lock Out
  • Shop Safety
  • Office Policies and Processes
  • Purchasing
  • Mail/Shipping/Receiving Policies
  • Simulation Training

Others

  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
  • Customer Service Training
  • How to Deal with Difficult People
  • Conflict Management Skills