Part 1: Growing as an Early Childhood Professional: Self-Assessment Reflect upon your strengths and areas of improvement in relationship to the five Early Childhood Professional Core Knowledge Categories listed on the Self-Assessment Chart.

Part 1: Growing as
an Early Childhood Professional: Self-Assessment

Reflect upon your strengths and areas of
improvement in relationship to the five Early Childhood Professional Core Knowledge
Categories listed on the Self-Assessment Chart.  Then, for at least three of the five
categories, complete a self-assessment in the following by explaining:

·       
The
knowledge and skills you currently possess in each category (1-2 paragraphs
for each category)

·       
Your
professional development needs for each category (1-2 paragraphs for each
category)

Self-Assessment

Early Childhood
Professional

Core Knowledge
Categories

Knowledge and
Skills

You Currently
Possess

Your Professional Development
Needs

Child & Youth
Development

Families &
Communities

Health & Safety

Teaching & Learning
Environment/Curriculum

Professionalism &
Program Organization

Part 2:
Professional Development Plan: Goals and Action Steps

Based upon your self-assessment, develop two SMART
goals for your professional development.  Then, for each goal, complete the following
in the chart provided:

·       
Action Steps: What steps will you take to
reach your goal?

o  
Note: At least one action step for
each goal should include a collaborative component. Collaborative activities
include observations, interviews, book clubs, consultation with a director of
professional development, etc. (Add or remove table cells, as needed).

·       
Collaborator(s): Who will support you in
completing your action steps and/or reaching your goal?

·       
Resources: 
What do you need to complete your action steps and/or reach your goal?

·       
Timeline: What is your timeline for
completing the action step?

·       
Evaluation: How will you know you have reached your goal?

Note: You will implement at least one of your action steps to
complete this Assessment.

Goals and Action
Steps

Professional

Development

Goals

Action Steps

Collaborator

Resources Needed

Timeline

Evaluation

PD Goal 1:

PD Goal 2:

Part 3: Reflection
on Implementation of Action Step

Implement at least one action step from your
Professional Development Plan. Then, write a 1- to 2-page reflection, in the
space provided, that explains the following:

·       
The action step(s) you implementation
and provide evidence of your implementation.

·       
Whether the action step(s)
implementation did or did not support you in reaching your professional
development goal.

·       
The collaborative component(s) of the
implemented action step(s) and whether it did or did not support you in
reaching your professional development goal.

·       
How subsequent action steps will
support you in making meaningful contributions to young children’s healthy
development and learning.