Professional Development Plan

This document is a professional development plan that focuses on enhancing teaching skills and capabilities. It includes setting professional goals, creating an inquiry, building support networks, and creating a development plan.

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Assignment · AS2
Course code · EDU701v1
Student Id · 5013866
Professional development plan

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Part 1: Professional goals...........................................................................................................3
Part 2: Inquiry............................................................................................................................5
Part 3: Support networks............................................................................................................7
Part 4: Development plan...........................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................14

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Introduction
The technical and social development of the world and society has also changed the
standards of the education industry. It has become critical for the teachers to develop unique
skills and capabilities to provide quality teaching services to the students by managing
diversity and flexibility (Fitzgerald, et al., 2019). Thus, to be an effective and successful
teacher, and the individual should always seek for his/her professional development. A
personal professional development plan is a process of improving individual skills and
capabilities to match the industry standards. The plan includes goals of development along
with the required actions, timeline, and justification about the importance of goal
achievement. The proposed professional development is developed by me to achieve my
goals of teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand and make a plan to support my learning and
development.
Part 1: Professional goals
a. My three major professional goals are:
Goal 1:
To enhance my professional understanding of the diversity available in the education
environment, so that I can foster quality and creative learning environment for the
international as well as local students. Here, I will focus on learning two different strategies
related to culture and diversity management.
Goal 2:
To develop my skills for developing a collaborative working environment with the
peers and leaners and reflect my professional work integrity to the cultural heritage in the
Aotearoa New Zealand. I am looking to develop knowledge on 3 different team management
strategies to achieve this goal.
Goal 3:
To improve the technical competencies, teach learners in the classroom, and find
different strategies to ease them to use technology during the classroom. I will improve my
learning about the virtual education classes and use of minimum 3 different educational
applications to connect students in virtual classes as well.
b. Connection between teaching standard and goal:

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The teaching profession in Aotearoa New Zealand is based on some standards to
maintain the teaching quality and ensure that all the students will get the best quality
education. In the rapidly changing technology trends, having some critical skills such as
fostering change, and peer relationships, being a lifetime learner, having both technical and
non-technical competencies to deal with the students with the different cultural environment
along with integrity and ethics to develop a constructive and safe educational environment for
the students (Teaching Council New Zealand, 2020).
My first goal is related to standard of “professional learning in Aotearoa New
Zealand”. These standards also promoted positive relationships with peers, learning, and their
families and the community within ethical boundaries by improving knowledge about
diversity environment of learning (Lim, Fickel, & Greenwood, 2019).
Further, some other standards for the teaching profession include developing a
creative learning environment of the students and promote respect and quality among the
diversified range of the students and focusing in collaborative development with peers. This
is known as “professional relationship” standard of teaching, which is related to my second
goal.
My professional goals, as mentioned above, are aligned with these standards as I want
to improve my teaching style and leadership abilities to foster education and teach them an
want to enhance my abilities and to strengthen my relationship with the peer, students, and
other stakeholders in the industry. Here, technological development is also essential to
promote creativity and technical learning environment, it is related to standard of “teaching”
and link with my third goal.
c. Prioritisation of goal:
My teaching goals are presented above are in a sequence of priority, as 1, 2, and 3.
Firstly achievement of goal 1 is important to develop an understanding about the diversity
available in the education environment and how teaching profession can be creative as much
as position by focusing on improvement of professional learning standard. It will lead me
towards the goal 2 to improve abilities to make a strong relationship with the leaners and
peers and help me to understand the cultural values of the environment and focus on growth
of learning about standard of professional relationship. After developing non-technical
competencies, the third goal will help me to improve technical competencies and enhance my
teaching methods which is all about the improvement of teaching standard.

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Part 2: Inquiry
One of the major considerations to achieve my professional goal in the teaching field
is to empower all the students to reach their goals. This is expected from the teachers to
provide a high-quality teaching to student by following all the standards of the education with
participative and proactive leadership approaches.
a. Here, are the two inquiry questions, which will support me to achieve my professional
goals:
i. How can I use the modern teaching strategies and approaches in a best way to develop
a creative and diversified learning environment for my students?
ii. How can I teach my lesson more effectively by engaging all the students of class from
different cultural backgrounds under the education culture of Aotearoa New Zealand?
b. Outline of steps to complete the inquiry question one:
This is based on the spiral inquiry model:
Scanning I need to change my strategies and
approaches because of changing in
educational environment and standards
expectations student and parents.
Focus My focus will be on learning about new
strategies and teaching approaches by
analysing that where I am lacking?
How I can learn these strategies and
approaches
Developing a hunch Seeking evidence from available literature,
news and industry reports, personal
observation and discussing with seniors
New Learning Informal and formal assessment by
including diversified areas of learning,
educational technique, changing pattern of
teachings strategies, high involvement of
technology
Taking actions Joining workshops and seminars to improve
teaching strategies (Minimum 2 workshop
in a month)

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Enrolling for short term training and
development session for professional
development (2-4 weeks courses)
Checking Improvement in knowledge and confidence
to cope with the dynamic educational
environment
Table 1: Steps to complete inquiry (Source: Learner)
c. Different perspectives:
Here, the perspective of several people in the education industry is valuable for me to
strengthen my inquiry. Here a discussion on my inquiry with my peers and colleagues is very
significant because they are also teaching in the same learning environment. I evaluated the
perspective of one of my colleagues on my inquiry. According to her, there is no such
strategy of teaching students, as it depends on an individual’s personality and teaching style.
An individual should have to be proactive to respond to the changing scenario of teaching.
Further, another perspective, which is important for me is from ‘the head of the
teaching department, who can assist me to learn about the dynamic nature of education
industry and changing demands and expectation of educational facilitators along with the
students and their families. He suggested me that the education sector also requires a strategic
approach to develop critical thinking and improve the style of dealing with the stakeholders
such as students, their families, peer, educational committee. In the education sector, students
come to learn, which eventually shapes their ideas and influences their personalities, so to be
innovative, creative, and respecting their value, evidence-based teaching should be used.
Besides, my students have perspectives that a teacher should be friendlier and open to
the students so that they can share their all concerns with them about study and courses,
lesson plans. If the teacher wants to promote a collaborative culture to develop a creative
learning environment, he/she should encourage students to work as a team.
All these perspectives are useful for me to engage with my inquiry questions and to
assist me to improve my teaching strategies and approaches.
d. Preliminary literature search:
For inquiry 1, which is proposed by me in the above section, several research studies
have been conducted. With a critical analysis, it has been evaluated that to develop a creative
learning environment in the classroom and engage students, different teaching strategies and

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methods can be adopted. As per the study of Gajda, Beghetto & Karwowski (2017), adopting
a multi-dimensional approach of teaching is important, which included visual learning.
Brainstorming, and dynamic and blended methodologies of interaction by including
technologies. This will also help teachers to promote a positive attitude towards cultural
diversity as interaction and learning through different patterns will help to develop a
collaborative environment. It is also supported by Sung, Hwang, & Chang (2016) that the use
of mobile and technologies to teach the students should be promoted to enhance their
understanding of the global world, technological assistance, and its benefits in education.
Further, I also found the study of Richardson & Mishra (2018) very useful for my
inquiry as this concludes that teachers should create different measures and SCALE to
promote creativity in the classroom learning and evaluate the student on these measures. A
comparative result will be shared with students to encourage them as per the standard of the
educational environment.
Part 3: Support networks
Following table presents the support network, which would help me to achieve the
goals and benefits associated with each of the networks:
Support Networks Benefits
Goal 1:  Peer networking
such as My
colleagues
 Tertiary Education
Commission
 Through peer networking I can
concentrate on different
challenges, discuss problem,
and get ideas to overcome and
share my experience.
 Helpful for me to conduct an in-
depth inquiry
 TEC offer training to teachers,
support to build career to
offering best knowledge and
creative training programs,
events and career services.
Goal 2:  Education
committee of
school
 Education committee will
support me to enhance my
understanding of the standards

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 Virtual learning
Network (VLN)
of education and the culture of
the country. The induction and
training programs offer by the
management of the institute will
be beneficial for me to learn
about my peers, their
competitive knowledge and
experience and strategies to
collaborate them effectively.
 Through VLN, I can learn in a
vibrant online space by
connecting teachers in the
international environment, share
experiences, learn about
different challenges and
strategies to overcome to work
in a team.
 By following this, I can
improve my communication
skills, cope with my peers, and
teach learners about the cultural
values and integrity and ethics
which need to be followed in
the classroom.
Goal 3:  Different academic
journals of
education and
teaching
 Personal training
institutes and
government
training workshops
 By gaining understanding from
the available literature related to
use of technology in education
and applying this knowledge in
the real world, I can get
opportunities for analysing the
different perspectives and
changing trends of the
education industry.

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 By joining personal training
institute, I can polish my skills
and improve understanding
about the different technologies
and education applications and
develop my technical
competencies to teach students.
Table 2: Support network for each goal (Source: Learner)
Part 4: Development plan
Following is the development plan for the achievement of my goals
Name:
The
standard
for the
Teaching
Profession
(include
the
relevant
elaboratio
n)
Profession
al goal
related to
the
Standard
Actions required
to achieve the
professional goal
Date
action
will be
complet
ed
Support and
resources
required
I will know
I have
achieved
this goal
when:
Professiona
l learning
in Aotearoa
New
Zealand:
Promoting
respect,
integrity,
and
cultural
values to
To enhance
my
professiona
l
understandi
ng of the
diversity
available in
the
education
environmen
1. Evaluating
academic
literature
and
industry
reports to
improve
knowledg
e about 2
well
known
Week 3-
4
 Peer
networki
ng such
as My
colleagu
es
 Tertiary
Educatio
n
Commiss
ion
I will
develop a
SCALE to
measure
my
understandi
ng about 2
different
strategies
of culture
and

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treat
everyone
with
equality
and
improve
classroom
learning
and
creativity
among the
students
t, so that I
can foster
quality and
creative
learning
environmen
t for the
internationa
l as well as
local
students.
and
creative
strategies.
 Different
academic
journals
of
educatio
n and
teaching
 Personal
training
institutes
and
governm
ent
training
worksho
ps
diversity.
2. Discussio
n with
colleagues
and peer
about 2
popular
teaching
approache
s
Week 4-
5
I can
discuss 2
creative
and tricky
strategies
to students
which they
find
difficult to
manage
diversified
learning
environmen
t.
3. Attending
workshops
and
seminars
to learn at
least 1
teaching
approach
to which I
am not
aware
Week 4-
6
4. Join a
training
workshop
to
teaching 1
approach
of
understan
ding
psycholog
Week 3-
6

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y of
students
Professiona
l
relationshi
p:
Collaborati
ve
relationshi
p: engaging
students in
a learning
environme
nt, which
support and
promotes
community
growth by
developing
a
relationshi
p with
learners,
families
and
improving
education
standard
with
collaborati
on
To develop
my skills
for
developing
a
collaborativ
e working
environmen
t with the
peers and
leaners and
reflect my
professiona
l work
integrity to
the cultural
heritage in
the
Aotearoa
New
Zealand
1. Conductin
g formal
and
informal
meetings
with
colleagues
and
leaners to
understan
d their
approache
s of
managing
teams and
working
together
Week 4-
5
 Educatio
n
committe
e of
school
 Virtual
learning
Network
(VLN)
 Personal
training
institutes
and
governm
ent
training
worksho
ps
When I can
summarize
3 different
strategies
to work in
a team to
the student
to manage
complicate
d
environmen
t and
importance
of support
each other.
2. Evaluation
of
education
standards
and codes
to with
educationa
l
committee
to learn 2-
3
strategies
of
improving
Week 2-
3

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work
relationshi
ps.
3. Attending
training
sessions
and
workshop
of Virtual
learning
network
Week 3-
6
When I can
complete
three
projects
with the
team
without any
conflicts.
4. Attending
meetings
organised
by
educationa
l
committee
Week 2-
4
By
developing
a
comparativ
e chart and
adding
three new
strategies
of team
manageme
nt.
Teaching:
Empowerin
g learners:
by offering
high
quality and
technical
learning
environme
nt to the
students by
To improve
the
technical
competenci
es, teach
learners in
the
classroom,
and find
different
strategies to
1. Attending
workshops
of
technical
courses in
education
to learn 3
different
technologi
es for
Week 6  Journals
of
educatio
n and
teaching
 Personal
training
institute
and
governm
ent
When, I
can
summarise
at least 3
technologie
s, which
are useful
for me and
students to
explain
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implementi
ng quality
teaching
methods
and
leadership
approaches
ease them
to use
technology
during the
classroom.
teaching training
worksho
ps
and course
material in
the class by
using IT
tools.
By
measuring
my speed
and time to
communica
te and teach
students by
using
technology
and before
3. Improving
practical
knowledg
e by
reading
books and
published
articles on
technolog
y and
education
Week 4-
5
I can
explain at
least 4
reasons to
students for
using these
technologie
s.
Table 3: Professional Development Plan (Source: Learner)

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References
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as a form of teacher learning in New Zealand: a narrative inquiry into one teacher’s
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