Planning and Tracking Professional Growth

1.3 Engaging in ongoing development to remain current both in your subject area and in the discipline of teaching

As faculty prepare for performance appraisals, they are usually asked to submit a plan for professional growth during the coming year. You will want to set professional development goals for yourself each year. The following documents in this section provide some tools to support you in this process. You may wish to create a Professional Development Learning Plan and teaching portfolio to help keep track of your learning and growth as an educator. Use the links below to help get started on your professional development at Algonquin College. You can also use the Self-Assessment Checklist to see which teaching competencies from the Professor of the 21st Century Framework you might like to focus on for your professional development activities

Creating a Professional Development Plan

Teaching Portfolio: Documenting Teaching Competencies

A teaching portfolio or dossier is “a purposeful collection of any aspect of a teacher’s work that tells the story of the teacher’s efforts, skills, abilities, achievement, and contributions to his or her students, colleagues, institution, academic discipline or community.” (Brown and Wokfe-Quintero, 1997). Such a collection is an evolving one, representing ongoing contributions over the professional life of the professor. One of its primary values is to foster reflection on one’s teaching practice and give direction for professional development planning, and another is to be a repository for materials that could otherwise become lost over time. The following documents will guide you through the process.

NEW! Prof of the 21st Century Interactive PDF Portfolio Tool

This writable template allows faculty to interact with and revise achieved competencies accordingly, aligning with the Professor of the 21st Century Framework document.

Simply double click on the selected box within each of the seven teaching competencies to articulate, reflect and connect the achieved skills and responsibilities in your role as educator for your ongoing Professional Development.

This writable tool allows for instant editing within each teaching competency which is cross referenced with the Faculty Self-Assessment Checklists (0-2, 2-7 & 7+) to help faculty identify their individual teaching strengths and needs in correlation with the seven teaching competencies. Revisions and updates made within the Adobe Acrobat Pro Program Template are saved to the cloud while the document instantly updates and syncs with your alternative devices.

Prof of the 21st Century Interactive PDF Portfolio Tool Template