Professional 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.