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    Julie Drake is a fifth-grade teacher who wants to improve her teaching methods through project-based learning. She discussed with her mentor challenges early career teachers face and her interest in making learning more authentic and meaningful for students through projects while still meeting curriculum standards. Her goal is to develop lessons that incorporate real-world examples and cross-curricular projects to provide deeper understanding of content, address testing requirements, and improve her school's accreditation. Her mentor will help create a plan for Julie to continue using engaging, applied lessons within a project-based learning framework.

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    Julie Drake is a fifth-grade teacher who wants to improve her teaching methods through project-based learning. She discussed with her mentor challenges early career teachers face and her interest in making learning more authentic and meaningful for students through projects while still meeting curriculum standards. Her goal is to develop lessons that incorporate real-world examples and cross-curricular projects to provide deeper understanding of content, address testing requirements, and improve her school's accreditation. Her mentor will help create a plan for Julie to continue using engaging, applied lessons within a project-based learning framework.

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    Julie Drake is a fifth-grade teacher who wants to improve her teaching methods through project-based learning. She discussed with her mentor challenges early career teachers face and her interest in making learning more authentic and meaningful for students through projects while still meeting curriculum standards. Her goal is to develop lessons that incorporate real-world examples and cross-curricular projects to provide deeper understanding of content, address testing requirements, and improve her school's accreditation. Her mentor will help create a plan for Julie to continue using engaging, applied lessons within a project-based learning framework.

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    Professional Growth Plan 1

    Professional Growth Plan

    Megan German

    PEDU 671

    Longwood University
    Professional Growth Plan 2

    Julie Drake is a fifth-grade teacher at Truitt Intermediate school, who just completed her

    first full year of teaching. She was a career-switcher who is enthusiastic to teach the unique

    group of students at her school, and she strives to constantly improve her methods while

    making the learning experience authentic for her students.

    Julie and I spoke for quite some time about the challenges faced by teachers early in

    their careers, the education system and areas that she would like to see improved, and what

    she wanted to work on most to improve the quality of education for her students. While most

    first-year teachers struggle with discipline and classroom management, she assured me that,

    due to have three children of her own, and being older than most teachers who are just starting

    out, she has a solid handle on her classroom management, and has minimal discipline issues.

    The area that she did want to work on most, that she felt would make learning more

    meaningful and longer-lasting for her students, was incorporating project-based learning while

    still meeting stringent timelines and content mandated by the SOLs.

    Mrs. Drake had several examples of project-based learning assignments that she had

    read of from different school districts, and even mentioned one school in Virginia Beach that is

    piloting a team-based intermediate school that will focus on a year-long process incorporating

    project-based learning across the curriculum. She has a strong desire to test out this approach,

    and truly feels it would be beneficial to her students, but she isnt sure how to approach it with

    the pressures of SOL tests, especially in a school that has only met partial accreditation for

    several years.

    In addition to her interest in project-based learning, she also gave me several examples

    of activities and lessons that she uses to make learning more authentic to her students. For
    Professional Growth Plan 3

    example, in her current unit she is teaching figurative language and uses idioms used in by

    students in her school to help them to fully understand the concept. In addition, she does an

    activity called Shakespeare or Rap in which she presents a variety of stanzas from either

    Shakespeare or a rapper and has the students first identify the figurative language, and then

    guess whether it was Shakespeare or a rapper who wrote the excerpt.

    With this information in mind, we decided that I would be working on a plan in which

    she could continue to incorporate real-world lessons into her classroom, while using project-

    based, cross-curricular lessons to give deeper meaning and understanding to the content that is

    covered in her class, all while continuing to address the necessary SOLs.
    Professional Growth Plan 4

    References

    Drake, Julie (2017, June 29). Personal Interview.

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