Personalized Learning Plan
Right now, I’m not teaching students, but we are teaching teachers, so I’m going to focus on how we can personalize professional learning for our teachers during the 2022-2023 school year.
PL Standards: Consider your school context and those instructional elements that you have control over (e.g., curriculum, pacing, activities, assessments, strategies, etc.). Choose standards that you can immediately implement in the next academic year.
Standard 2 - Learner Agency: The candidate teaches and encourages learners to advocate for their needs, preferences, and interests to plan and drive their learning. The candidate will:
(i) support learners in identifying and advocating for their preferred modalities, talents, and interests when co-planning experiences that support mastery;
(ii) create a flexible or innovative learning environment that supports learner agency; and
(iii) ensure learning experiences reflect preferred modalities, talents, and interests when co-planning experiences that support mastery.
Standard 4 - Growth and Mastery Mindset: The candidate defines learning as an ongoing progression by embracing a growth and mastery mindset, rejecting the binary of success and failure. The candidate will:
(i) prepare learners to monitor their own pace and progress and persevere towards mastery, embracing mistakes as learning opportunities; 505-3-.108 Page 3
Standard 5 - Authentic and Adaptive Assessment: The candidate co-plans with the learner to collect evidence of mastery using varied and data-rich performances that are on-going, authentic, flexible, and relevant. The candidate will:
(i) prepare learners to self-assess by identifying, documenting, and defending formal and informal learning experiences to build an assessed portfolio as evidence of mastery;
(ii) consider multiple means of demonstration when co-designing assessments aligned to competencies;
Standard 6 - Flexible Educational Resources: The candidate provides the learner access to flexible resources when co-planning unique ways to master competencies. These include but are not limited to the resources available in the digital content ecosystem. The candidate will:
(i) provide opportunity for learners to seek or select content from a curated menu of educational resources that address the competencies;
(ii) employ engaging pedagogies and research-based best practices of instructional design to curate, mine, create, and organize high impact educational resources and make them accessible to learners;
Standard 7 - Individualized Path: The candidate prepares learners to be aware of competency-based learning progressions and to make informed choices in co-planning a unique pathway and pace towards mastery of the curriculum. The candidate will:
(i) co-plan and co-design with the learner a challenging learning pathway towards mastery while considering the interdependencies within and across content(s);
(ii) use data of previously assessed competencies to coach and co-plan current and future learning paths; and
(iii) facilitate and coach the learner towards independence in mastering the content
Standard 9 - Expanded Collaboration: The candidate values learners as equal contributors in the planning process. The candidate will:
(i) coach learners to effectively collaborate in all interactions (group work, instructional conversations, sharing ideas, critical feedback, roles, peer feedback, etc.);
(ii) collaborate using tools and strategies to acquire real-time feedback and data from all stakeholders to inform curriculum design and improvement;
(iii) build relationships with all stakeholders that foster success, and
(iv) commit to timely personal interaction (co-plan, monitor progress, provide feedback, reflect and celebrate, etc.) with all learners.
Standard 10 - Life-Long Professional Learning: The candidate perceives his/her own learning as a lifelong pursuit. The candidate will:
(i) value and participate in professional learning communities and networks for ongoing growth in personalized learning;
(ii) keep abreast of innovative strategies and technologies that hold potential to support personalized learning; and
(iii) seek and create opportunities as a teacher leader, mentor, coach or content expert within the school, district or state to promote personalized learning.
Goals: Identify goals to address the standards of your choice for the next academic year.
Our goal as a team for the next academic year is to provide a menu of professional learning options for our teachers and to create a professional learning pathway that includes both required PL and optional PL, allowing teachers to plan a professional development path that best suits their needs.
Action Steps: Articulate at least four actionable steps that align to the stated goals.
Spring 2022 - Deploy a self-assessment for teachers and combine this data with the data from a personalized learning observation in Fall 2021 to identify areas of growth.
Spring/Summer 2022 - Create a menu of appetizers, entrees, quick bites, and to-go PL offerings. In progress idea:
