Waterloo Community Schools

Individual Professional Development Plan

Teacher: Brent J Dinnebier
Building: West High
For school year:

Date plan was developed: 10/08/2014-2015

Evaluator: Winters

2014-2015

SMART GOALS : Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely

What is your building/team goal? My goal for the 2014-2015 school

year is to analyze student data to improve student achievement. This
would include looking at formative and summative assessments of
students and then developing high-yielding teaching and learning
strategies for students with differentiated instruction, and re-teaching so
Why did you choose to enhance your growth in this area? Why did you
select this as a need area? Why did you select this as a need area? I
chose this area because I feel like my main focus should be to improve
student achievement in the classroom and data decision making is one of
the most successful ways to do this based on current research.
How does this goal align with district initiatives, building initiatives and
the Iowa Teaching Standards and Criteria? Supports district/building
initiative to increase literacy among all students. This goal aligns with the
Iowa Teaching Standards in the following categories: 1a,b,c,f 2b,d 3a,d
4a,b,c 5a,c,f 7a,b,c 8c,d
What actions will you take to accomplish this professional growth? The
action I will take to accomplish this growth would first be participation in
Professional Learning Communities (data team meetings) at my school.
Secondly, I will use formative and summative assessments in the
classroom and use the data to make decisions on learning and teaching
What supports do you need to accomplish this goal (time, access to
training, collaboration opportunities, materials, etc)? To accomplish this
goal I will need to make sure to be at all data team meetings on
Wednesdays to collaborate with other teachers in the building. I will need
to use many formative and summative assessments. I will also be using

Identify the criteria for determining that this goal has been met (use
measurable and observable terms). To identify that the criteria has been
met I will use many things. First I will start with my formal evaluation by
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What is your student achievement goal? The goal I have chosen is that
students will increase their reading comprehension and writing skills in
the 2014-2015 school year focusing on using high-yielding teaching and
learning strategies.
Why did you choose to enhance your growth in this area? Why did you
select this as a need area? I chose this area to enhance my growth
because over the past 2 years in our Literacy meetings I have learned
about many successful reading and writing strategies that I was
previously unaware of. I selected this area as a need area because it
How is this goal align with district initiatives, building initiative and the
Iowa Teaching Standards and Criteria? 1a,b,c,f 2b,d 3a,d 4a,b,c 5a,c,f
7a,b,c 8c,d

What actions will you take to accomplish this professional growth? To

accomplish this professional growth I will make sure to use the reading
and writing strategies that I have been taught in Literacy professional
development. Furthermore, I will analyze data and make instructional
based decisions from student data.
What supports do you need to accomplish this goal (time, access to
training, collaboration opportunities, materials, etc)? To accomplish this
goal I will need to continue Literacy professional development and
continue to analyze student data in professional learning communities as
well as collaborate with other teachers.
Identify the criteria for determining that this goal has been met (use
measurable and observable terms). To make sure this goal has been meet
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What is your personal/professional goal? My personal goal is to use
high-yielding teaching and learning strategies in my classroom in every
lesson that I teach. Specifically I would like to use more of the strategies
we have learned in Literacy professional development.
Why did you choose to enhance your growth in this area? Why did you
select this as a need area? Why did you select this as a need area? I
chose this area because I have used some of the strategies provided to
us. When I have used these strategies they have been highly effective in
engaging students and raising student achievement.
How is this goal align with district initiatives, building initiatives and the
Iowa Teaching Standards and Criteria? 1a,b,c,f 2b,d 3a,d 4a,b,c 5a,c,f
7a,b,c 8c,d

What actions will you take to accomplish this professional growth? To

accomplish this professional growth I will make sure to use all of the
strategies provided to us multiple times throughout the course of the year
and also make sure I am using them on a weekly basis.
What supports do you need to accomplish this goal (time, access to
training, collaboration opportunities, materials, etc)? To accomplish this
goal I am going to need to spend time outside of the classroom
collaborating with other teachers and preparing lesson plans to determine
which strategies will work best with what I am teaching at the particular
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Progress Monitoring

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