Writing

Professional
Goals
Mini-PLC
Presentation Objectives
Teachers will feel empowered to:

● Identify
● Write (in “X to Y by When” format)
● Track
● Achieve

their Professional Goals easily and efficiently as a result of this presentation.

Teachers will feel inspired and motivated to establish and achieve Professional
Goals, and learn how to transfer the aforementioned skills into their own
classrooms to use with their students.
Standards Addressed
Teacher Leader Standards:

● Domain 1: Fosters a Collaborative Culture to Support Educator Development

and Student Learning
● Domain 3: Promotes Professional Learning for Continuous Improvement

NBPTS Standards:

● Proposition 2: Teachers know the subjects they teach and how to teach those
subjects to students
Please rate your
Red skittle= Overwhelmed, “I don’t even know
feelings about setting a where to begin”
professional goal at this Orange skittle=burnt out, “I have a lot on my
point in the year. plate already and it feels like it will be time
consuming”

Yellow= neutral, “It could be fun but could also

live without it”

Green= excited and ready to get started, “I

have been looking forward to this opportunity!”

Purple= unconvinced, “I am not convinced of

the purpose this will serve in my life, I feel like
it’s a checklist item”
Please rate your personal Red= super extremely confident, I set and
confidence in achieve goals regularly

setting/achieving goals. Orange= pretty confident, I have set and

achieved some goals in the past

Yellow= neutral, it depends on the goal and

my motivation

Green= Shaky, I have set out to achieve

goals before but life and time get in the way
of my actually achieving them

Purple= n/a, I have never really seriously set

a goal before
Let’s get Inspired!
 Dominican University of
California Study
Group 1: Think about your goal only

Group 2: Write goal

Group 3: Write goal + “action items” (lead measures)

Group 4: Write goal + “action items” + share with a friend

Group 5: Write goal + “action items” + share with a friend +

weekly check-in with friend
 Write goal +
“action items” +
share with a
Write goal + friend + weekly
“action items” + check-in with a
share with a friend
friend
Thinking Only
Ok, now set a goal!
Where do I
even begin?!
Setting a Professional
Development Goal
Make it work for you!
4 Disciplines:
1. Wildly Important Goal
2. Leads
3. Scoreboard
4. Accountability
 Welcome to
The Professional
Goals Bakery &
Cafe
Where achieving your goal becomes a piece of cake!
Appetizers
Option 1: Avoid Teacher Burnout
Option 2: Enhance Parent
Communication
Option 3: Integrate PBL
Now you try!
Salads
X to Y by (when)
 X to Y by (when)
I will lose weight → I will go from 150 pounds to 145 pounds by April 30th
 X to Y by (when)
I will lose weight → I will go from 150 pounds to 145 pounds by April 30th

I want to walk more → I will go from walking 3,000 steps a day to walking
10,000 steps a day by April 30th
 X to Y by (when)
I will lose weight → I will go from 150 pounds to 145 pounds by April 30th

I want to walk more → I will go from walking 3,000 steps a day to walking
10,000 steps a day by April 30th

I want to cook/eat dinner at home more often → I will go from eating at

home 2 times per week to eating at home 5 times per week by April 30th
Now you try!
Main
Menu
Specific Lead Measures help
lead you towards achieving
your goal!
Now you try!
Beverages
 Write goal +
“action items” +
share with a
Write goal + friend + weekly
“action items” + check-in with a
share with a friend
friend
Thinking Only
Now you try!
Desserts
Desserts

Now you try!

For April 8th, please...
1. Come with your professional goal filled in (and track for 1 week)
2. Brainstorm 3 potential personal goals for your students.
3. Post-Survey
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