Part A: Professional Growth Plan Proposal

(Due: March 18, 2020)

Section 1: General Information

Name: Marcia Gibson

Current Job Title: Teacher. 6th grade, gifted Social Studies

School: Inman Middle School

School Address: 774 Virginia Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30306

Home Address: 255Whitney Way, Fayetteville, GA 30214

School Phone #: (404) 802-3200

Home Phone #: (404) 538-0947 .

E-Mail Address: Marcia.Gibson@gmail.com

Section II: Career Goals

In the space below, please indicate your career ambitions in terms of leadership. Map
out your career plans in school leadership and identify education and experiences
needed to attain your goals.

I am currently not seeking a leadership position. Next year I will be content PLC
lead facilitator and in the future I would like to be content lead and grade level chair at
Inman. My teaching experiences have afforded me the opportunity to have both of
these positions at previous schools. Long term, I would like to write a humanities
curriculum for the district. Most curriculum writing jobs require a Master degree in
education, and or specialist in curriculum and instruction. I plan to earn my master’s
when my daughter goes to kindergarten, in 4 years. As a social studies teacher with a
certification and background in Middle Grades English language arts, I’ve found that
while social studies has rich and meaningful information, students simply struggle to
read. My goal would be to use my experience with helping students learn to read, and
finding what really matters to them in the content to remove social studies from the
bottom of the barrel. My leadership style is visionary, not managerial. In the long run, I
see myself developing an African American impact history class for Atlanta Public
Schools that not only allows students to see themselves, focuses on community
positive change, but also is developed in a way to increase their reading and writing
skills. In order to obtain this goal, while seeking my Masters, I would need to continue
to build my portfolio of developing curriculum at the school level.
Section III: Strengths and Areas to Strengthen

Part A: Referring to assessments completed during Courses 1 and 2 of Metro RESA’s

Teacher Leader Endorsement Program, identify and discuss the strengths you bring to
the position of teacher leader. If possible, identify how you determined these
strengths.
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Part B: Referring to assessments completed during Courses 1 and 2 of the Teacher

Leader Endorsement Program, identify and discuss the areas you need to strengthen in
order to become a more effective teacher leader. If possible, identify how you
determined these areas. Include a discussion of how the ISTE Technology Standards for
Educators can inform this work.

Based on the Harrison and Killion ten roles of teacher leader survey, taken in
course one. I rated myself highly comfortable as a resource specialist, curriculum
specialist, learner, and learning facilitator. At the time I rated myself only moderately
comfortable with school leadership. There are many ways I am already a prepared and
competent teacher leader. Yet, there are several things I would like to continue to work
on. For example, In course 2 I learned that my leadership style is collaborative. In my
work that I have done with my action research I know that many teachers feel
overwork, underpaid, and mostly under valued. Much of these feelings stem from salary
issues, however, the article ‘Redefining the Teacher Leader’ reveals that increased salary
would indeed make a positive impact on teacher sustainability, but until teachers are
able to lead, the profession remains in the hands of district, state, and federal
government policy. The current state of education no longer aligns with a lifetime
career. Instead, teachers are burnt out and overwhelmed with managerial and day -to-
day tasks. Ultimately, until teachers are part of the ongoing change making part of
choices, the state of true improvement of teachers and American education remains
questionable. As a collaborative teacher leader, I believe I am able to use my
experiences in the classroom to work with other teachers to create changes for schools,
and districts that help increase feelings of value and teacher retention. Using the ISTE
Technology Standards for Educators, ‘the citizen’ inspires students to positively
contribute to and responsibly participate in the digital world. As a resource provider,
instructional specialist, and curriculum specialist I am able to provide meaningful ways
to use technology to engage staff, and scholars which use the data to drive instruction
that corresponds to hands-on learning, off the computer. Being both collaborative and
‘citizen’, combines to create a strong teacher leader that can listen, learn, from all
stakeholders and drive the vision forward with effective ways to receive that
information. Utilizing the same standard, I ranked myself on ‘school leader’ and find
this to be an area of growth, because I am learning from this class that I still need time
to collaborate and learn from both students and leaders. My end goal of education is
not managerial tasks that involve teacher consequences or rewards. I would like to
shape what and how we teach our students from the curriculum standpoint. In course
2, I struggled to supervise an older less-willing adult, which leads me to believe that I
will need to work on supervision skills if my leadership journey takes me in that
direction.
Section IV: Professional Growth Plan Goals & Strategies

Select one specific area to strengthen identified in Section III, Part B. Then set a
specific goal in the area identified, identify the evidence that will be needed to
determine if the goal was achieved, and provide a list of no more than four
performance-based strategies you will utilize to meet the goal. You must provide an
estimate of the time required to implement the strategy. Each strategy must be
documented in the Professional Growth Plan Log. Completion of the plan should
require at least 10 hours.

Candidate Marcia Gibson

Goal candidate wants to achieve: Experience and education in supervision

Proposed Strategy Estimated

Time
1. Read and Reflect on Taking the Lead by Joelle Kilion 3 hours
and Cindy Harrison
2. Get approved opportunities to periodically supervise 1 hour
other teachers
3. Reflect with site supervisor on the supervising 3 hours
experience
4. Collect data from the supervised teachers. Analyze 3 hours
data. Reflect on how the information collected can
drive supervision practices in the future.

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Signature of the Practicum Instructor

Once the proposal has been approved by your course instructor, secure the signature of
your on-site supervisor.

_____________________________________________________________________
Signature of the Site Supervisor

_______Marcia Gibson_____________________________________________________________
Signature of the Candidate

When all approvals have been obtained, make three copies of the entire proposal and
distribute to the following: (1) site supervisor, (2) course instructor, and (3) your
portfolio.