For the school year
Teacher's Name
Principal's Name
School Location
*
Please Select
Alexander Mackenzie HS
Aurora HS
Bayview SS
Bill Crothers SS
Bill Hogarth SS
Bur Oak SS
Dr.Bette Stephenson
Dr.G.W. Williams SS
Dr.J.M. Denison SS
Emily Carr SS
Hodan Nalayeh SS
Huron Heights SS
Keswick HS
King City SS
Langstaff SS
Maple HS
Markham District HS
Markville SS
Middlefield CI
Milliken Mills HS
Newmarket HS
Pierre Elliott Trudeau HS
Richmond Green SS
Richmond Hill SS
Sir William Mulock SS
Stephen Lewis SS
Stouffville District SS
Sutton District HS
Thornhill SS
Thornlea SS
Tommy Douglas SS
Unionville HS
Westmount CI
Woodbridge College
SVS
MIST (Centrally Assigned)
School Board
Please Select
York Region District School Board
Teaching Assignment
ALP Goal #1
Goal #1 - Choose your Growth Goal
Please Select
Contribute to professional organizations.
Explore published research.
Read professional publications.
Search computer databases or the Internet.
Attend workshops, conferences, seminars.
Develop and implement curriculum materials.
Implement instruction or assessment strategy.
Integrate technology into teaching practice.
Contribute to a professional publication.
Share ideas and resources with colleagues.
Observe exemplary practices.
Conduct an action research project.
Become involved in a mentoring partnership.
Take a course.
Increase student engagement with technology and/or digital tools in the classroom.
Serve as a resource to colleagues new to the 1:1 model.
Focus on inquiry-based learning activities to drive instruction.
Improve my ability to teach the "thinking classroom".
Anti-Racism, Anti-Colonialism, Anti-Oppressive practices and culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy (CRRP).
Expectation based assessment (not using categories).
Assistive Technology (i.e. learn new software/programs, develop individualized programming for students).
Improve on providing descriptive feedback, technology use, inquiry based learning, alternative assessments, alternative instructional techniques, formative assessment.
Increased wait time for questions, answers and emotional reactions for myself and the person I am interacting with.
Focus on the small and big picture of decisions made in education.
Improve on teacher talk to be direct as possible and imply only when necessary.
Shape instruction to help all students; employ effective questioning techniques; explore leadership opportunities; increase use of technology; well-being.
I will improve my ability to develop clear and achievable classroom expectations with students.
I will improve my ability to use technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness in planning, instructional delivery, reporting procedures and decision making.
Improve my ability to apply knowledge of how students develop and learn physically, socially and cognitively.
Continue to value and promote fairness and justice and adopt anti discriminatory practices in respect of gender, sexual orientation, racer, disability, age, religion and culture.
Work to systematize routine procedures and tasks to engage students in a varied learning experience.
Demonstrate care and respect for students by maintaining positive interactions.
Provide opportunities for students to share their interests and demonstrate their involvement in learning.
Assist colleagues in implementing the behaviour code with consistency.
Model and promote effective use of technology to promote student learning.
Make authentic and meaningful connections to real-world applications of mathematics by exploring when, where and why students might apply their knowledge.
Use a variety of appropriate assessment and evaluation techniques.
Effectively demonstrate knowledge of trends, techniques and research relevant to my teaching.
Choose pertinent resources for development of instruction to address student needs.
Assess and review program delivery for relevancy.
Employ effective questioning techniques that encourage higher level thinking skills.
Incorporate mental health and mindfulness in my classroom.
Engage all of my students in my classroom during lessons and activities.
Employ a balance of student/teacher directed discussion/learning.
Use appropriate strategies to manage discipline in my classroom.
Establish an environment that maximizes learning by continuing to incorporate thinking.
Include diagnostic assessment as a part of overall and unit planning and review program delivery for relevancy.
Shape instruction so that it is helpful to students who learn in a variety of ways.
Use a variety of assessment strategies and instruments to make both short and long term decisions to improve student learning.
Encourage and require students to utilize the ongoing feedback they are given to improve their writing through conferencing as assessment for and as learning.
Apply knowledge of how students develop and learn physically, socially, and cognitively.
Effectively demonstrate knowledge of trends, techniques and research relevant to my teaching.
Use gender neutral terms.
Help students achieve goals by explicitly referring to learning goals and criteria regularly.
Provide opportunity for students to co-create learning criteria on specific summative tasks.
Use a variety of appropriate teaching techniques to engage students.
Refine my practice by incorporating more digital tools into my professional work.
Employ effective questioning techniques that encourage higher level thinking skills.
Differentiate for various levels of ELL learners in my classroom.
Differentiate for various levels of learners in my classroom.
Incorporate more general and geography specific technologies into the learning environment.
Use technology when appropriate to improve efficiency and effectiveness in planning instructional delivery, reporting procedures and decision making.
Use ongoing reporting to keep both students and parents informed and to chart student progress.
Engage in meaningful dialogue with students to provide feedback during the teaching/learning process.
Use a variety of motivational strategies to encourage students to develop competence in all areas.
Provide learners with appropriate opportunities for independent practice of new skills.
Encourage students to be cognisant of their personal strengths and capabilities to pursue possible career paths.
Communicate information form a bias-free, multicultural perspective.
Provide learners with appropriate opportunities for independent practice of new skills.
Develop clear and achievable classroom expectations with students.
Provide more opportunities for students to create and use Anchor Charts within the classroom.
Use Google applications beyond Classroom, Forms, Docs and Slides.
Demonstrate care and respect for students by maintaining positive interactions.
Demonstrate a positive, professional attitude when communicating with parents, students, and colleagues.
Improve my ability to use a variety of appropriate assessment and evaluation techniques
Provide feedback to improve student achievement.
Value and promote fairness and justice and adopt anti-discriminatory practices in respect of gender, sexual orientation, race, disability, age, religion and culture.
Provide a learning environment that encourages students to become effective problem solvers, decision makers and lifelong learners.
Continue to explore and implement instructional practices to develop critical thinking skills in students.
Continue to assign application questions to students to further develop higher order thinking and allow students to make real world connections.
Demonstrate a positive rapport with students.
Address inappropriate student behaviour in a positive manner.
Communicate clear, challenging, and achievable expectations for students.
Provide learners with appropriate opportunities for independent practice of new skills.
Use data as an indicator of trends, needs, or excellence in my classroom.
Use data as an indicator of trends, needs, or excellence in my school.
Be a school leader by sharing best practices.
Strengthen grade 9 transitions.
Modify programs to respond to the needs of exceptional students.
Maintain an environment that maximizes learning by mentoring other teachers on how to make the flipped classroom an effective teaching practice.
Design a meaningful and accessible music program.
Use Google Classroom, Google Docs, and Google Slides to provide collaborative, and engaging learning platforms.
Use TeachAssist to track learning skills.
Provide multiple opportunities for success.
Incorporate literacy and numeracy more frequently to support achievement in both classes and EQAO.
Better understand mental illness and promote mental health.
Continue to learn and understand the history of the Indigenous people of Canada by focusing on meeting the new curriculum updates and the mandates of the TRC.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the Geography curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the English curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the Drama curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the Math curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the History curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the French curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the Science curriculum.
Collaborate with SERTs to better understand my role in supporting and monitoring student achievement as well as best practices for accommodations within the classroom.
Explore ways to implement Modern Learning Strategies into my FSL classroom.
Explore ways to implement Modern Learning Strategies into my classroom.
Create an environment for FSL students to demonstrate practical applications of a second language skill.
Rational #1 - Choose a Rational for the Goal Above
Please Select
To learn more about a topic.
To expand my knowledge and improve my understanding.
To focus on and develop a series of lessons.
To increase my students' ability to problem solve and my ability to offer lessons that teach problem-solving.
To become more efficient.
To practice these skills.
To prepare for implementation of a new course.
To acquire skills and knowledge that will enhance student achievement.
To support colleagues new to the profession or the board.
To enhance skill development and teaching practices.
To support teaching colleagues in helping them promote inquiry and problem-solving skills.
To improve teaching practices and acquire best practices.
Support for teaching strategies that enhance student learning.
Support for better understanding student behaviour.
To share knowledge and expertise with colleagues that represents an important contribution to learning.
To use technology to enhance effectiveness in lesson planning, instructional delivery and reporting procedures.
Board identified priority/expectation.
To enhance skill development and teaching practices.
Initiative by the board, and supported by research, to help improve student engagement and success.
Human rights and developing a critical consciousness. To further support my most marginalized learner(s), to disrupt oppressive practices, to disrupt white supremacy.
Student success, credit attainment.
To support student access to curriculum (Community Class).
Emotional health and more positive actions.
To enhance student learning.
To share knowledge and expertise with colleagues.
To enhance teaching practices.
To further develop leadership skills.
Work-life balance.
To provide support for teaching strategies that enhance student learning.
To enhance skill development and teaching practices.
To enhance skill development and teaching practice.
Work to develop a better understanding of power dynamics in the classroom.
Support for better understanding student behaviour. Work to implement Board identified priorities and expectations.
Support for teaching strategies that enhance student learning.
Support for modern learning.
Sharing knowledge and expertise with colleagues represents an important contribution to learning.
To improve teaching practices and acquire best practices.
Support for effective classroom and school activities.
To enhance skill development.
Sharing knowledge and expertise with colleagues represent an important contribution to learning.
Communication is key in my role as teacher/leader.
To ensure my practice remains current and up to date.
Offer a variety of experiences to students.
To acquire skills and knowledge to enhance student achievement.
Support for effective classroom and school activities.
Support for teaching strategies that enhance student learning.
To better understand the mental health issues facing the students of today.
Use of technology to enhance effectiveness in lesson planning, instructional delivery and reporting procedures.
Enhancing career opportunities and student achievement.
Opportunity to enhance learning about teachers’ rights, social justice issues and to network with colleagues.
Support for teaching colleagues in helping them promote inquiry and problem-solving skills.
An important opportunity for professional leadership.
Support for better understanding of student behaviour.
Support for teaching strategies that enhance student well-being.
To better my comfort and knowledge of the Indigenous perspective and to actively live and practice Reconciliation in and outside of the classroom.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommends educators build student capacity for intellectual understanding, empathy and mutual respect (TRC Call to Action #63.3).
Board recognized leadership opportunities.
Board identified priority/expectation.
To appeal to the digitally-literate learner.
To support growth of student self-confidence and engagement.
To support student independence.
To better help my understanding of the revised curriculum.
To dismantle systemic racism and stereotypes.
To promote success for marginalized students.
To improve mental health and well-being in the classroom.
Encourages social interaction among students.
This is part of my role as a student success teacher.
This is part of my role as an English teacher.
This is part of my role as a Guidance Counselor.
This is part of my role as a teacher.
To enhance my understanding of the learners in my class and better identify what they need to be more successful.
An important opportunity for professional leadership.
To better enable students to recognize what they are learning and how to identify areas for development.
To help students deepen their engagement and connections to the pieces they read and to demonstrate this through their writing.
To be better able to teach students ways to manage their stress in healthy ways.
To provide students with a variety of assessments/evaluations to hopefully eliminate math anxiety for some students and provide more opportunities for students to be creative when demonstrating their math knowledge.
Strategies #1 - Choose a Strategy for meeting the Goal Above
Please Select
I will consult with colleagues to learn more.
I will read available resources.
I will plan and implement a unit that meets the curriculum expectations.
I will read sample units available for delivery of curriculum.
I will use a variety of sources and resources to integrate curriculum expectations into teaching practice.
I will visit another classroom to view problem solving strategies.
I will work with a colleague to learn application of software.
I will read resources on Parent/Teacher Relationships.
Share and gather ideas with other teachers on how they communicate with parents.
I will try one new approach in communicating with parents.
I will take an on-line course on assessment strategies using rubrics.
Employ a rubric in my class based on information learned from the course.
Research assessment tasks in new course profiles and/or textbooks.
Seek out and experiment with new digital tools.
Seek input from colleagues, experts and/or Board consultants and effectively apply my learning to enhance teaching practices.
Participate in professional learning, study groups and/or in-service programs to enhance skill development.
Volunteer to share and/or present at staff or PD meetings.
Volunteer to be a contact person for staff members with questions or need assistance troubleshooting problems as they explore new digital tools and strategies.
Team teach with another colleague.
Offer students opportunity to demonstrate learning in different ways
Pursue and effectively share knowledge about current thinking, trends and practices in education.
Learn from other colleagues and others in the community.
Seek input from colleagues, consultants, or other appropriate staff.
Initiate contact with other professionals and community agencies.
Learn with and from colleagues and others in the community.
Participate in workshops, seminars, courses, and in-service programs.
Observe other teachers, acquire best practices, and effectively apply new information/techniques to enhance my teaching practices.
Further develop “conversation” assessment strategies.
Pursue and effectively share knowledge about current thinking, trends, and practices in education with colleagues.
Team teach with another colleague.
Offer students an opportunity to demonstrate their learning through projects and oral communication.
Seek input from colleagues, consultants, or other appropriate support staff.
Observe other teachers, acquire best practices, and effectively apply new information/techniques.
Participate in workshops, seminars, courses, and in-service programs.
Continue my practice of being more mindful and add this to my classroom practice.
Continue to have discussions and co-plan with members of my department.
Create worthwhile opportunities for students, parents, and community members to share their learning, knowledge and skills with others in the class or school.
Participate in professional learning, study groups and in-service programs to enhance skill development.
Explore ways to access and to use educational research.
Participate as an effective team member and share expertise with others, e.g., by acting as mentor, peer coach, or associate teacher.
Read professional journals, books, internet sites, or any articles related to educational contexts and effectively share with peers.
Include a variety of reading selections, novels, short story collections, magazine and news articles in the classroom.
Assess student work for learning and provide written feedback, then conference with them as they are learning and assess again for their improvement.
I will continue to research, learn about, experiment with, and implement a variety of digital applications.
Observe best practices, and effectively apply new information/techniques to enhance teaching practices.
Identify areas for professional growth; attend workshops, appropriate seminars, or courses to respond to changes in education/policies and practice.
Try various applications in the classroom and then refine my practice based on experience.
Use conventions with students to assess achievement.
Initiate contact with other professionals and community agencies to assist students and their families where appropriate.
Incorporate time during various lessons to co-create Anchor Charts.
Seek out PD that addresses this particular strategy.
Work collaboratively with the department head to review feedback and create a plan to implement action.
Participate in workshops, seek help from DLRT and colleagues through in-service programs.
Acknowledge and celebrate the success of others.
Organize a grade 9 inclusion activity.
Reach out to guidance/transition teachers in the elementary panel.
Collaborate with other teachers who wish to use the Flipped Classroom model.
Keep a portfolio recording my learning experiences and effectively relate them to educational contexts.
Check in with students frequently to see how they are feeling.
Begin using digital note taking methods.
Incorporate the use of group-based problem solving using vertical non-permanent surfaces.
Attend Train the Trainer training on “Supporting Minds” allowing me to bring information back to colleagues.
Attend Powerschool Training and share and support knowledge as teachers transition to this new platform.
Timeline #1 - Choose a Timeline for meeting your goal
Please Select
End of semester 1
End of semester 2
End of the school year (June 30)
Ongoing
ALP Goal #2
Goal #2 - Choose your Growth Goal
Please Select
Contribute to professional organizations.
Explore published research.
Read professional publications.
Search computer databases or the Internet.
Attend workshops, conferences, seminars.
Develop and implement curriculum materials.
Implement instruction or assessment strategy.
Integrate technology into teaching practice.
Contribute to a professional publication.
Share ideas and resources with colleagues.
Observe exemplary practices.
Conduct an action research project.
Become involved in a mentoring partnership.
Take a course.
Increase student engagement with technology and/or digital tools in the classroom.
Serve as a resource to colleagues new to the 1:1 model.
Focus on inquiry-based learning activities to drive instruction.
Improve my ability to teach the "thinking classroom".
Anti-Racism, Anti-Colonialism, Anti-Oppressive practices and culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy (CRRP).
Expectation based assessment (not using categories).
Assistive Technology (i.e. learn new software/programs, develop individualized programming for students).
Improve on providing descriptive feedback, technology use, inquiry based learning, alternative assessments, alternative instructional techniques, formative assessment.
Increased wait time for questions, answers and emotional reactions for myself and the person I am interacting with.
Focus on the small and big picture of decisions made in education.
Improve on teacher talk to be direct as possible and imply only when necessary.
Shape instruction to help all students; employ effective questioning techniques; explore leadership opportunities; increase use of technology; well-being.
I will improve my ability to develop clear and achievable classroom expectations with students.
I will improve my ability to use technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness in planning, instructional delivery, reporting procedures and decision making.
Improve my ability to apply knowledge of how students develop and learn physically, socially and cognitively.
Continue to value and promote fairness and justice and adopt anti discriminatory practices in respect of gender, sexual orientation, racer, disability, age, religion and culture.
Work to systematize routine procedures and tasks to engage students in a varied learning experience.
Demonstrate care and respect for students by maintaining positive interactions.
Provide opportunities for students to share their interests and demonstrate their involvement in learning.
Assist colleagues in implementing the behaviour code with consistency.
Model and promote effective use of technology to promote student learning.
Make authentic and meaningful connections to real-world applications of mathematics by exploring when, where and why students might apply their knowledge.
Use a variety of appropriate assessment and evaluation techniques.
Effectively demonstrate knowledge of trends, techniques and research relevant to my teaching.
Choose pertinent resources for development of instruction to address student needs.
Assess and review program delivery for relevancy.
Employ effective questioning techniques that encourage higher level thinking skills.
Incorporate mental health and mindfulness in my classroom.
Engage all of my students in my classroom during lessons and activities.
Employ a balance of student/teacher directed discussion/learning.
Use appropriate strategies to manage discipline in my classroom.
Establish an environment that maximizes learning by continuing to incorporate thinking.
Include diagnostic assessment as a part of overall and unit planning and review program delivery for relevancy.
Shape instruction so that it is helpful to students who learn in a variety of ways.
Use a variety of assessment strategies and instruments to make both short and long term decisions to improve student learning.
Encourage and require students to utilize the ongoing feedback they are given to improve their writing through conferencing as assessment for and as learning.
Apply knowledge of how students develop and learn physically, socially, and cognitively.
Effectively demonstrate knowledge of trends, techniques and research relevant to my teaching.
Use gender neutral terms.
Help students achieve goals by explicitly referring to learning goals and criteria regularly.
Provide opportunity for students to co-create learning criteria on specific summative tasks.
Use a variety of appropriate teaching techniques to engage students.
Refine my practice by incorporating more digital tools into my professional work.
Employ effective questioning techniques that encourage higher level thinking skills.
Differentiate for various levels of ELL learners in my classroom.
Differentiate for various levels of learners in my classroom.
Incorporate more general and geography specific technologies into the learning environment.
Use technology when appropriate to improve efficiency and effectiveness in planning instructional delivery, reporting procedures and decision making.
Use ongoing reporting to keep both students and parents informed and to chart student progress.
Engage in meaningful dialogue with students to provide feedback during the teaching/learning process.
Use a variety of motivational strategies to encourage students to develop competence in all areas.
Provide learners with appropriate opportunities for independent practice of new skills.
Encourage students to be cognisant of their personal strengths and capabilities to pursue possible career paths.
Communicate information form a bias-free, multicultural perspective.
Provide learners with appropriate opportunities for independent practice of new skills.
Develop clear and achievable classroom expectations with students.
Provide more opportunities for students to create and use Anchor Charts within the classroom.
Use Google applications beyond Classroom, Forms, Docs and Slides.
Demonstrate care and respect for students by maintaining positive interactions.
Demonstrate a positive, professional attitude when communicating with parents, students, and colleagues.
Improve my ability to use a variety of appropriate assessment and evaluation techniques
Provide feedback to improve student achievement.
Value and promote fairness and justice and adopt anti-discriminatory practices in respect of gender, sexual orientation, race, disability, age, religion and culture.
Provide a learning environment that encourages students to become effective problem solvers, decision makers and lifelong learners.
Continue to explore and implement instructional practices to develop critical thinking skills in students.
Continue to assign application questions to students to further develop higher order thinking and allow students to make real world connections.
Demonstrate a positive rapport with students.
Address inappropriate student behaviour in a positive manner.
Communicate clear, challenging, and achievable expectations for students.
Provide learners with appropriate opportunities for independent practice of new skills.
Use data as an indicator of trends, needs, or excellence in my classroom.
Use data as an indicator of trends, needs, or excellence in my school.
Be a school leader by sharing best practices.
Strengthen grade 9 transitions.
Modify programs to respond to the needs of exceptional students.
Maintain an environment that maximizes learning by mentoring other teachers on how to make the flipped classroom an effective teaching practice.
Design a meaningful and accessible music program.
Use Google Classroom, Google Docs, and Google Slides to provide collaborative, and engaging learning platforms.
Use TeachAssist to track learning skills.
Provide multiple opportunities for success.
Incorporate literacy and numeracy more frequently to support achievement in both classes and EQAO.
Better understand mental illness and promote mental health.
Continue to learn and understand the history of the Indigenous people of Canada by focusing on meeting the new curriculum updates and the mandates of the TRC.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the Geography curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the English curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the Drama curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the Math curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the History curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the French curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the Science curriculum.
Collaborate with SERTs to better understand my role in supporting and monitoring student achievement as well as best practices for accommodations within the classroom.
Explore ways to implement Modern Learning Strategies into my FSL classroom.
Explore ways to implement Modern Learning Strategies into my classroom.
Create an environment for FSL students to demonstrate practical applications of a second language skill.
Rational #2 - Choose a Rational for the Goal Above
Please Select
To learn more about a topic.
To expand my knowledge and improve my understanding.
To focus on and develop a series of lessons.
To increase my students' ability to problem solve and my ability to offer lessons that teach problem-solving.
To become more efficient.
To practice these skills.
To prepare for implementation of a new course.
To acquire skills and knowledge that will enhance student achievement.
To support colleagues new to the profession or the board.
To enhance skill development and teaching practices.
To support teaching colleagues in helping them promote inquiry and problem-solving skills.
To improve teaching practices and acquire best practices.
Support for teaching strategies that enhance student learning.
Support for better understanding student behaviour.
To share knowledge and expertise with colleagues that represents an important contribution to learning.
To use technology to enhance effectiveness in lesson planning, instructional delivery and reporting procedures.
Board identified priority/expectation.
To enhance skill development and teaching practices.
Initiative by the board, and supported by research, to help improve student engagement and success.
Human rights and developing a critical consciousness. To further support my most marginalized learner(s), to disrupt oppressive practices, to disrupt white supremacy.
Student success, credit attainment.
To support student access to curriculum (Community Class).
Emotional health and more positive actions.
To enhance student learning.
To share knowledge and expertise with colleagues.
To enhance teaching practices.
To further develop leadership skills.
Work-life balance.
To provide support for teaching strategies that enhance student learning.
To enhance skill development and teaching practices.
To enhance skill development and teaching practice.
Work to develop a better understanding of power dynamics in the classroom.
Support for better understanding student behaviour. Work to implement Board identified priorities and expectations.
Support for teaching strategies that enhance student learning.
Support for modern learning.
Sharing knowledge and expertise with colleagues represents an important contribution to learning.
To improve teaching practices and acquire best practices.
Support for effective classroom and school activities.
To enhance skill development.
Sharing knowledge and expertise with colleagues represent an important contribution to learning.
Communication is key in my role as teacher/leader.
To ensure my practice remains current and up to date.
Offer a variety of experiences to students.
To acquire skills and knowledge to enhance student achievement.
Support for effective classroom and school activities.
Support for teaching strategies that enhance student learning.
To better understand the mental health issues facing the students of today.
Use of technology to enhance effectiveness in lesson planning, instructional delivery and reporting procedures.
Enhancing career opportunities and student achievement.
Opportunity to enhance learning about teachers’ rights, social justice issues and to network with colleagues.
Support for teaching colleagues in helping them promote inquiry and problem-solving skills.
An important opportunity for professional leadership.
Support for better understanding of student behaviour.
Support for teaching strategies that enhance student well-being.
To better my comfort and knowledge of the Indigenous perspective and to actively live and practice Reconciliation in and outside of the classroom.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommends educators build student capacity for intellectual understanding, empathy and mutual respect (TRC Call to Action #63.3).
Board recognized leadership opportunities.
Board identified priority/expectation.
To appeal to the digitally-literate learner.
To support growth of student self-confidence and engagement.
To support student independence.
To better help my understanding of the revised curriculum.
To dismantle systemic racism and stereotypes.
To promote success for marginalized students.
To improve mental health and well-being in the classroom.
Encourages social interaction among students.
This is part of my role as a student success teacher.
This is part of my role as an English teacher.
This is part of my role as a Guidance Counselor.
This is part of my role as a teacher.
To enhance my understanding of the learners in my class and better identify what they need to be more successful.
An important opportunity for professional leadership.
To better enable students to recognize what they are learning and how to identify areas for development.
To help students deepen their engagement and connections to the pieces they read and to demonstrate this through their writing.
To be better able to teach students ways to manage their stress in healthy ways.
To provide students with a variety of assessments/evaluations to hopefully eliminate math anxiety for some students and provide more opportunities for students to be creative when demonstrating their math knowledge.
Strategies #2 - Choose a Strategy for meeting the Goal Above
Please Select
I will consult with colleagues to learn more.
I will read available resources.
I will plan and implement a unit that meets the curriculum expectations.
I will read sample units available for delivery of curriculum.
I will use a variety of sources and resources to integrate curriculum expectations into teaching practice.
I will visit another classroom to view problem solving strategies.
I will work with a colleague to learn application of software.
I will read resources on Parent/Teacher Relationships.
Share and gather ideas with other teachers on how they communicate with parents.
I will try one new approach in communicating with parents.
I will take an on-line course on assessment strategies using rubrics.
Employ a rubric in my class based on information learned from the course.
Research assessment tasks in new course profiles and/or textbooks.
Seek out and experiment with new digital tools.
Seek input from colleagues, experts and/or Board consultants and effectively apply my learning to enhance teaching practices.
Participate in professional learning, study groups and/or in-service programs to enhance skill development.
Volunteer to share and/or present at staff or PD meetings.
Volunteer to be a contact person for staff members with questions or need assistance troubleshooting problems as they explore new digital tools and strategies.
Team teach with another colleague.
Offer students opportunity to demonstrate learning in different ways
Pursue and effectively share knowledge about current thinking, trends and practices in education.
Learn from other colleagues and others in the community.
Seek input from colleagues, consultants, or other appropriate staff.
Initiate contact with other professionals and community agencies.
Learn with and from colleagues and others in the community.
Participate in workshops, seminars, courses, and in-service programs.
Observe other teachers, acquire best practices, and effectively apply new information/techniques to enhance my teaching practices.
Further develop “conversation” assessment strategies.
Pursue and effectively share knowledge about current thinking, trends, and practices in education with colleagues.
Team teach with another colleague.
Offer students an opportunity to demonstrate their learning through projects and oral communication.
Seek input from colleagues, consultants, or other appropriate support staff.
Observe other teachers, acquire best practices, and effectively apply new information/techniques.
Participate in workshops, seminars, courses, and in-service programs.
Continue my practice of being more mindful and add this to my classroom practice.
Continue to have discussions and co-plan with members of my department.
Create worthwhile opportunities for students, parents, and community members to share their learning, knowledge and skills with others in the class or school.
Participate in professional learning, study groups and in-service programs to enhance skill development.
Explore ways to access and to use educational research.
Participate as an effective team member and share expertise with others, e.g., by acting as mentor, peer coach, or associate teacher.
Read professional journals, books, internet sites, or any articles related to educational contexts and effectively share with peers.
Include a variety of reading selections, novels, short story collections, magazine and news articles in the classroom.
Assess student work for learning and provide written feedback, then conference with them as they are learning and assess again for their improvement.
I will continue to research, learn about, experiment with, and implement a variety of digital applications.
Observe best practices, and effectively apply new information/techniques to enhance teaching practices.
Identify areas for professional growth; attend workshops, appropriate seminars, or courses to respond to changes in education/policies and practice.
Try various applications in the classroom and then refine my practice based on experience.
Use conventions with students to assess achievement.
Initiate contact with other professionals and community agencies to assist students and their families where appropriate.
Incorporate time during various lessons to co-create Anchor Charts.
Seek out PD that addresses this particular strategy.
Work collaboratively with the department head to review feedback and create a plan to implement action.
Participate in workshops, seek help from DLRT and colleagues through in-service programs.
Acknowledge and celebrate the success of others.
Organize a grade 9 inclusion activity.
Reach out to guidance/transition teachers in the elementary panel.
Collaborate with other teachers who wish to use the Flipped Classroom model.
Keep a portfolio recording my learning experiences and effectively relate them to educational contexts.
Check in with students frequently to see how they are feeling.
Begin using digital note taking methods.
Incorporate the use of group-based problem solving using vertical non-permanent surfaces.
Attend Train the Trainer training on “Supporting Minds” allowing me to bring information back to colleagues.
Attend Powerschool Training and share and support knowledge as teachers transition to this new platform.
Timeline #2 - Choose a Timeline for meeting your goal
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End of semester 1
End of semester 2
End of the school year (June 30)
Ongoing
ALP Goal #3
Goal #3 - Choose your Growth Goal
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Contribute to professional organizations.
Explore published research.
Read professional publications.
Search computer databases or the Internet.
Attend workshops, conferences, seminars.
Develop and implement curriculum materials.
Implement instruction or assessment strategy.
Integrate technology into teaching practice.
Contribute to a professional publication.
Share ideas and resources with colleagues.
Observe exemplary practices.
Conduct an action research project.
Become involved in a mentoring partnership.
Take a course.
Increase student engagement with technology and/or digital tools in the classroom.
Serve as a resource to colleagues new to the 1:1 model.
Focus on inquiry-based learning activities to drive instruction.
Improve my ability to teach the "thinking classroom".
Anti-Racism, Anti-Colonialism, Anti-Oppressive practices and culturally relevant and responsive pedagogy (CRRP).
Expectation based assessment (not using categories).
Assistive Technology (i.e. learn new software/programs, develop individualized programming for students).
Improve on providing descriptive feedback, technology use, inquiry based learning, alternative assessments, alternative instructional techniques, formative assessment.
Increased wait time for questions, answers and emotional reactions for myself and the person I am interacting with.
Focus on the small and big picture of decisions made in education.
Improve on teacher talk to be direct as possible and imply only when necessary.
Shape instruction to help all students; employ effective questioning techniques; explore leadership opportunities; increase use of technology; well-being.
I will improve my ability to develop clear and achievable classroom expectations with students.
I will improve my ability to use technology to improve efficiency and effectiveness in planning, instructional delivery, reporting procedures and decision making.
Improve my ability to apply knowledge of how students develop and learn physically, socially and cognitively.
Continue to value and promote fairness and justice and adopt anti discriminatory practices in respect of gender, sexual orientation, racer, disability, age, religion and culture.
Work to systematize routine procedures and tasks to engage students in a varied learning experience.
Demonstrate care and respect for students by maintaining positive interactions.
Provide opportunities for students to share their interests and demonstrate their involvement in learning.
Assist colleagues in implementing the behaviour code with consistency.
Model and promote effective use of technology to promote student learning.
Make authentic and meaningful connections to real-world applications of mathematics by exploring when, where and why students might apply their knowledge.
Use a variety of appropriate assessment and evaluation techniques.
Effectively demonstrate knowledge of trends, techniques and research relevant to my teaching.
Choose pertinent resources for development of instruction to address student needs.
Assess and review program delivery for relevancy.
Employ effective questioning techniques that encourage higher level thinking skills.
Incorporate mental health and mindfulness in my classroom.
Engage all of my students in my classroom during lessons and activities.
Employ a balance of student/teacher directed discussion/learning.
Use appropriate strategies to manage discipline in my classroom.
Establish an environment that maximizes learning by continuing to incorporate thinking.
Include diagnostic assessment as a part of overall and unit planning and review program delivery for relevancy.
Shape instruction so that it is helpful to students who learn in a variety of ways.
Use a variety of assessment strategies and instruments to make both short and long term decisions to improve student learning.
Encourage and require students to utilize the ongoing feedback they are given to improve their writing through conferencing as assessment for and as learning.
Apply knowledge of how students develop and learn physically, socially, and cognitively.
Effectively demonstrate knowledge of trends, techniques and research relevant to my teaching.
Use gender neutral terms.
Help students achieve goals by explicitly referring to learning goals and criteria regularly.
Provide opportunity for students to co-create learning criteria on specific summative tasks.
Use a variety of appropriate teaching techniques to engage students.
Refine my practice by incorporating more digital tools into my professional work.
Employ effective questioning techniques that encourage higher level thinking skills.
Differentiate for various levels of ELL learners in my classroom.
Differentiate for various levels of learners in my classroom.
Incorporate more general and geography specific technologies into the learning environment.
Use technology when appropriate to improve efficiency and effectiveness in planning instructional delivery, reporting procedures and decision making.
Use ongoing reporting to keep both students and parents informed and to chart student progress.
Engage in meaningful dialogue with students to provide feedback during the teaching/learning process.
Use a variety of motivational strategies to encourage students to develop competence in all areas.
Provide learners with appropriate opportunities for independent practice of new skills.
Encourage students to be cognisant of their personal strengths and capabilities to pursue possible career paths.
Communicate information form a bias-free, multicultural perspective.
Provide learners with appropriate opportunities for independent practice of new skills.
Develop clear and achievable classroom expectations with students.
Provide more opportunities for students to create and use Anchor Charts within the classroom.
Use Google applications beyond Classroom, Forms, Docs and Slides.
Demonstrate care and respect for students by maintaining positive interactions.
Demonstrate a positive, professional attitude when communicating with parents, students, and colleagues.
Improve my ability to use a variety of appropriate assessment and evaluation techniques
Provide feedback to improve student achievement.
Value and promote fairness and justice and adopt anti-discriminatory practices in respect of gender, sexual orientation, race, disability, age, religion and culture.
Provide a learning environment that encourages students to become effective problem solvers, decision makers and lifelong learners.
Continue to explore and implement instructional practices to develop critical thinking skills in students.
Continue to assign application questions to students to further develop higher order thinking and allow students to make real world connections.
Demonstrate a positive rapport with students.
Address inappropriate student behaviour in a positive manner.
Communicate clear, challenging, and achievable expectations for students.
Provide learners with appropriate opportunities for independent practice of new skills.
Use data as an indicator of trends, needs, or excellence in my classroom.
Use data as an indicator of trends, needs, or excellence in my school.
Be a school leader by sharing best practices.
Strengthen grade 9 transitions.
Modify programs to respond to the needs of exceptional students.
Maintain an environment that maximizes learning by mentoring other teachers on how to make the flipped classroom an effective teaching practice.
Design a meaningful and accessible music program.
Use Google Classroom, Google Docs, and Google Slides to provide collaborative, and engaging learning platforms.
Use TeachAssist to track learning skills.
Provide multiple opportunities for success.
Incorporate literacy and numeracy more frequently to support achievement in both classes and EQAO.
Better understand mental illness and promote mental health.
Continue to learn and understand the history of the Indigenous people of Canada by focusing on meeting the new curriculum updates and the mandates of the TRC.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the Geography curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the English curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the Drama curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the Math curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the History curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the French curriculum.
Improve my ability to incorporate FNMI perspectives into the Science curriculum.
Collaborate with SERTs to better understand my role in supporting and monitoring student achievement as well as best practices for accommodations within the classroom.
Explore ways to implement Modern Learning Strategies into my FSL classroom.
Explore ways to implement Modern Learning Strategies into my classroom.
Create an environment for FSL students to demonstrate practical applications of a second language skill.
Rational #3 - Choose a Rational for the Goal Above
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To learn more about a topic.
To expand my knowledge and improve my understanding.
To focus on and develop a series of lessons.
To increase my students' ability to problem solve and my ability to offer lessons that teach problem-solving.
To become more efficient.
To practice these skills.
To prepare for implementation of a new course.
To acquire skills and knowledge that will enhance student achievement.
To support colleagues new to the profession or the board.
To enhance skill development and teaching practices.
To support teaching colleagues in helping them promote inquiry and problem-solving skills.
To improve teaching practices and acquire best practices.
Support for teaching strategies that enhance student learning.
Support for better understanding student behaviour.
To share knowledge and expertise with colleagues that represents an important contribution to learning.
To use technology to enhance effectiveness in lesson planning, instructional delivery and reporting procedures.
Board identified priority/expectation.
To enhance skill development and teaching practices.
Initiative by the board, and supported by research, to help improve student engagement and success.
Human rights and developing a critical consciousness. To further support my most marginalized learner(s), to disrupt oppressive practices, to disrupt white supremacy.
Student success, credit attainment.
To support student access to curriculum (Community Class).
Emotional health and more positive actions.
To enhance student learning.
To share knowledge and expertise with colleagues.
To enhance teaching practices.
To further develop leadership skills.
Work-life balance.
To provide support for teaching strategies that enhance student learning.
To enhance skill development and teaching practices.
To enhance skill development and teaching practice.
Work to develop a better understanding of power dynamics in the classroom.
Support for better understanding student behaviour. Work to implement Board identified priorities and expectations.
Support for teaching strategies that enhance student learning.
Support for modern learning.
Sharing knowledge and expertise with colleagues represents an important contribution to learning.
To improve teaching practices and acquire best practices.
Support for effective classroom and school activities.
To enhance skill development.
Sharing knowledge and expertise with colleagues represent an important contribution to learning.
Communication is key in my role as teacher/leader.
To ensure my practice remains current and up to date.
Offer a variety of experiences to students.
To acquire skills and knowledge to enhance student achievement.
Support for effective classroom and school activities.
Support for teaching strategies that enhance student learning.
To better understand the mental health issues facing the students of today.
Use of technology to enhance effectiveness in lesson planning, instructional delivery and reporting procedures.
Enhancing career opportunities and student achievement.
Opportunity to enhance learning about teachers’ rights, social justice issues and to network with colleagues.
Support for teaching colleagues in helping them promote inquiry and problem-solving skills.
An important opportunity for professional leadership.
Support for better understanding of student behaviour.
Support for teaching strategies that enhance student well-being.
To better my comfort and knowledge of the Indigenous perspective and to actively live and practice Reconciliation in and outside of the classroom.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommends educators build student capacity for intellectual understanding, empathy and mutual respect (TRC Call to Action #63.3).
Board recognized leadership opportunities.
Board identified priority/expectation.
To appeal to the digitally-literate learner.
To support growth of student self-confidence and engagement.
To support student independence.
To better help my understanding of the revised curriculum.
To dismantle systemic racism and stereotypes.
To promote success for marginalized students.
To improve mental health and well-being in the classroom.
Encourages social interaction among students.
This is part of my role as a student success teacher.
This is part of my role as an English teacher.
This is part of my role as a Guidance Counselor.
This is part of my role as a teacher.
To enhance my understanding of the learners in my class and better identify what they need to be more successful.
An important opportunity for professional leadership.
To better enable students to recognize what they are learning and how to identify areas for development.
To help students deepen their engagement and connections to the pieces they read and to demonstrate this through their writing.
To be better able to teach students ways to manage their stress in healthy ways.
To provide students with a variety of assessments/evaluations to hopefully eliminate math anxiety for some students and provide more opportunities for students to be creative when demonstrating their math knowledge.
Strategies #3 - Choose a Strategy for meeting the Goal Above
Please Select
I will consult with colleagues to learn more.
I will read available resources.
I will plan and implement a unit that meets the curriculum expectations.
I will read sample units available for delivery of curriculum.
I will use a variety of sources and resources to integrate curriculum expectations into teaching practice.
I will visit another classroom to view problem solving strategies.
I will work with a colleague to learn application of software.
I will read resources on Parent/Teacher Relationships.
Share and gather ideas with other teachers on how they communicate with parents.
I will try one new approach in communicating with parents.
I will take an on-line course on assessment strategies using rubrics.
Employ a rubric in my class based on information learned from the course.
Research assessment tasks in new course profiles and/or textbooks.
Seek out and experiment with new digital tools.
Seek input from colleagues, experts and/or Board consultants and effectively apply my learning to enhance teaching practices.
Participate in professional learning, study groups and/or in-service programs to enhance skill development.
Volunteer to share and/or present at staff or PD meetings.
Volunteer to be a contact person for staff members with questions or need assistance troubleshooting problems as they explore new digital tools and strategies.
Team teach with another colleague.
Offer students opportunity to demonstrate learning in different ways
Pursue and effectively share knowledge about current thinking, trends and practices in education.
Learn from other colleagues and others in the community.
Seek input from colleagues, consultants, or other appropriate staff.
Initiate contact with other professionals and community agencies.
Learn with and from colleagues and others in the community.
Participate in workshops, seminars, courses, and in-service programs.
Observe other teachers, acquire best practices, and effectively apply new information/techniques to enhance my teaching practices.
Further develop “conversation” assessment strategies.
Pursue and effectively share knowledge about current thinking, trends, and practices in education with colleagues.
Team teach with another colleague.
Offer students an opportunity to demonstrate their learning through projects and oral communication.
Seek input from colleagues, consultants, or other appropriate support staff.
Observe other teachers, acquire best practices, and effectively apply new information/techniques.
Participate in workshops, seminars, courses, and in-service programs.
Continue my practice of being more mindful and add this to my classroom practice.
Continue to have discussions and co-plan with members of my department.
Create worthwhile opportunities for students, parents, and community members to share their learning, knowledge and skills with others in the class or school.
Participate in professional learning, study groups and in-service programs to enhance skill development.
Explore ways to access and to use educational research.
Participate as an effective team member and share expertise with others, e.g., by acting as mentor, peer coach, or associate teacher.
Read professional journals, books, internet sites, or any articles related to educational contexts and effectively share with peers.
Include a variety of reading selections, novels, short story collections, magazine and news articles in the classroom.
Assess student work for learning and provide written feedback, then conference with them as they are learning and assess again for their improvement.
I will continue to research, learn about, experiment with, and implement a variety of digital applications.
Observe best practices, and effectively apply new information/techniques to enhance teaching practices.
Identify areas for professional growth; attend workshops, appropriate seminars, or courses to respond to changes in education/policies and practice.
Try various applications in the classroom and then refine my practice based on experience.
Use conventions with students to assess achievement.
Initiate contact with other professionals and community agencies to assist students and their families where appropriate.
Incorporate time during various lessons to co-create Anchor Charts.
Seek out PD that addresses this particular strategy.
Work collaboratively with the department head to review feedback and create a plan to implement action.
Participate in workshops, seek help from DLRT and colleagues through in-service programs.
Acknowledge and celebrate the success of others.
Organize a grade 9 inclusion activity.
Reach out to guidance/transition teachers in the elementary panel.
Collaborate with other teachers who wish to use the Flipped Classroom model.
Keep a portfolio recording my learning experiences and effectively relate them to educational contexts.
Check in with students frequently to see how they are feeling.
Begin using digital note taking methods.
Incorporate the use of group-based problem solving using vertical non-permanent surfaces.
Attend Train the Trainer training on “Supporting Minds” allowing me to bring information back to colleagues.
Attend Powerschool Training and share and support knowledge as teachers transition to this new platform.
Timeline #3 - Choose a Timeline for meeting your goal
Please Select
End of semester 1
End of semester 2
End of the school year (June 30)
Ongoing
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