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Individual professional planning Choose two staff members,…
Individual professional planning
Choose two staff members, the individual planning process and gain their consent. Give them pseudonyms to protect their identity (a different name or simply Staff 1, Staff 2). Provide the staff members with a copy of the ‘Planning for Professional Learning’ template to complete and make arrangements to meet with them to identify and develop individual goals, objectives for their professional learning. How you manage the individual professional planning is up to you and the staff members participating in the process.
Reflect on how you prepared for the meetings with the individual staff members, what leadership approach did you take with each person? You need to explain and justify how you went about the process in a leadership role, and why you used specific leadership approaches/strategies with the individual staff members. For example, the leadership approach may have been based on what you know about them, their level of experience, and what you know about leadership approaches, communication, and relationship strategies from the literature, and/or your own leadership philosophy/style. You need to explain and justify how/why the approaches/strategies were appropriate for supporting the individual staff planning process. Support your discussion by referring to the leadership and professional learning literature.
Provide an illustration showing the individual goals/objectives identified, a plan and a timeline for implementation. This may include activities, team meetings, identified mentoring sessions or other plans. The illustration is not included in the word count. The ‘service profile’ and the ‘planning for professional learning’ templates should support the planning process, but the templates are not the report.
Note: you are not expected to implement the individual plans. Engaging in the process of planning with staff members assists you to understand the process involved and provides opportunities for you to:
apply effective leadership skills to lead pedagogical and curriculum development,
demonstrate effective interpersonal communication skills and relationship building strategies to afford effective teams; and,
use strategies to build institutional cohesion and vision to guide quality ECEC practice.
Planning for Professional Learning
Educator’s name: Date:
What aspect of your job gives you the greatest personal satisfaction?
What aspect of your job do you find most frustrating?
Are there are barriers or challenges that keep you from being as effective as you would like? What are they?
If you had the ability to change anything about your job, what would you change and how do you feel this would improve your job?
Where do you see yourself in five years from now?
Are there any new skills or knowledge you wish you could learn or continue to develop?
Could other staff assist you with these skills or knowledge? If so how?
