Personal Learning Plan

Name: Namita vadgama

Critical Friend: Poorvi Doshi

The Personal Learning Plan is an evolving touchstone document for developing your
Leading Schools Project and reflecting on your learning with your critical friend. For each
PLP reflection, you will review/refine your plan and describe the related Wicked Awesome
Learning Opportunities (WALOs) that you have pursued at your school site. After sharing
your written reflection with your critical friend, you will have the opportunity to have a
reflective conversation about your work. This document will lead into your Leading School
Project Program Reflection.

1. What are you working on, and what do you hope to accomplish, in terms of
...
The craft of teaching/working with students?

Currently I am facilitating grade Pre K [Age group 4]
4] with TFU. I am working
in this grade for first time, I too am learning with my students every single day.
My practices revolve around exploration and skill building.

Day is designed
designed in such a way which engages them and helps them to
understand and build upon their knowledge. It also helps them to enhance their
thinking skills, work collaboratively, get authentic experience and learn life
skills. My role is to reach to each individual
individual.
idual.
What I aspire to do:

To integrate PBL with my current practice / projects which I am doing

Learn to inculcate 21st century skills in my curriculum,
curriculum, keeping DI
[Differentiated Instruction]
Instruction] as focus too.

To create an environment which encourages
encourages and motivates students to learn
and challenge themselves.

Ensure that there are enough opportunities and resources available to the
students for any kind of exploration they are interested in.

Create a class which is beyond boundaries and not
not limited to the four walls of
the classroom by taking them to more visits.
visits.

Document my work as well as students work.
work.

 Being a leader and collaborating with colleagues?

As I have worked in all grade [from Play house to k2],
k2], I wish to collaborate
with
with my colleagues and share
share my learning about PBL and later incorporate in
our curriculum.
2. As you think about your Leading Schools Project
a. What fierce wonderings are emerging? What do you hope to learn?

How far I will be able to incorporate PBL at Pre K level.

To what extent I will be able to involve coco-curricular teacher & parents.

How will I involve parents our 3rd stake holder in this learning.
b. How might these be framed in an essential question or project

How will PBL help
help in integrating all subjects
subjects which includes co curricular like
music & arts.
arts.
C. What do you hope to accomplish?

I hope to enhance my understanding about PBL along with 21st century skills
and become a better teacher.
teacher.
Risk taker, collaborator,
collaborator, learner,
learner, communicator,
communicator, techno savvy, learner,
model, adopter....
Questions for critical friend conversations:
Touchstone questions for your inquiry journal and your conversations with
your critical friend:

How do I initiate back ward planning?
planning?

How to bring awareness in parents,
parents, to hands hold is childs
childs holistic
development?

I would also like to discuss how I can go about answering my essential
questions? What kind of projects I should look at?
at?
[My critical friend has guided me for the above mentioned
questions]

3.
Design a set of at least three Wicked Awesome Learning Opportunities (WALOs) as
possible next steps. The first WALO should be designed to help you reflect on your own
practice; the second should be centred around how you share your with immediate
colleagues and the last WALO asks you to lead members of your community. Ideas for
WALOs are listed on the reverseor you may design your own. Each WALO is an
opportunity for action and reflection enabling you to address your essential questions.

WALOs (Wicked Awesome Learning Opportunities):

Reflect on my practice :

Reflect on regular basis, and share with my mentor [PBL, TFU] &
colleague.
colleague.
Share with a colleague :

Plan a project or curricular unit with a colleague.

Work with colleagues to plan a grade level or school wide presentation of
learning.
learning.