1. TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
What to do in order to keep up with these standards as a
teacher? – NETS-T Standard #5

2. WHERE DO YOU STAND?
LET’S CALL IT…PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMNET PLAN
• “Professional development” is teacher lingo for
learning new things:
o “Keeping up with the new shift”
• Professional development is done:
o Formally: Attending conferences, taking college
classes and getting advanced degrees, working and
learning on committees
o Informally: Reading on your own, experimenting with
new ideas, getting new ideas from colleagues, etc.

3. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT -FORMAL
OPTIONS MAX. PTS. PT. VALUE SAMPLE CRITERIA
VERIFICATION
College Credit 90 points 1 credit hour = Official transcript B”
15 points Accredited
college
Professional 45 points 1 hour in Certificate of Must align with
Conference workshop = 1 attendance standards and
point PGP
Educational 5 points 5 points per Certificate of Must be related
Travel travel attendance to plan
Professional 50 points 1 hour = 1 point Documentation Must service
Committees Form on formal
committee
Formal PD is required to renew your teaching license in Indiana (and Georgia)
Indiana – must have 90 points in 5 years. No requirements of how much from where…
Note: Some states give credit for PD differently

4. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT – INFORMAL
• Although informal, it is also a platform that conducts
formal training for teachers
Examples:
• PBS Teachers
• ChildTeaching
• Teacherline
• Teacher-to-teacher E-learning workshops
• Annenberg Learner program
• Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy
• Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative

5. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PROFILER PRO AND PDP
• Open the profiler pro website and login with your own
account.
• Look at the NETS-T Standards and look at the results of
the ProfilerPro survey you took:
o You’ll notice that the survey is actually organized by
the standards.
• How to interpret the results…

6. HANDS ON ACTIVITY – PROFILER PRO (15 MINUTES)
ULA Demo:
1. Go to your Profiler Pro results. Save a copy of your image onto your
desktop.
2. Rename the image as profilerpro-pre
3. Open your E-Portfolio – Professional Development Page
4. From the results of your Profiler Pro, think about your strengths &
areas of Improvement and identify 3 goals!
5. Insert your image, strengths & areas of improvement and goals to
your e-portfolio - > Professional Development page!

7. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOAL SETTING
• Example #1
o Poor: I want to learn how to do a podcast tomorrow
o Good: I want to learn how to use Podbean to create a podcast
by the end of the semester
• Example #2
o Poor: I want to learn technology to teach my students stuff!
o Good: I want to learn Inspiration to teach my elementary
students how to count before the school year begins.
o SMART Framework
 Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, & Timely
Remember: You will provide evidence of achieving these goals at the
end of the semester!