Professional Development Goals

Below are the Malden High School Professional Development Plan Goals, the Districts’ Professional Development Goals, and the Districts' Strategic Plan Goals. Please use these as a guideline for completing your Individual Professional Development Plan, as well as, your evaluation goals.

MALDEN HIGH SCHOOL
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS
2006-2007

1. Learn and utilize new strategies to differentiate instruction for all learners.

2. Use various assessment methods that in conjunction with #1 above will help raise academic achievement of all students and improve MCAS scores.

3. Develop at least one interdisciplinary unit to be taught in collaboration with another teacher.

4. Incorporate the use of technology into the curriculum.

5. Incorporate lessons to improve MCAS scores.

MALDEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
STRATEGIC PLAN
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GOALS
2003-2008

• CURRICULUM:
  To develop staff understanding of district curriculum standards.
• TECHNOLOGY:
  To use technology to enhance teaching and learning.
• ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS:
  To recognize and address the particular needs of English Language Learners.
• SPECIAL EDUCATION:
  To recognize and address the particular needs of Special Education Students.
• ASSESSMENT:
  To provide staff with knowledge and skills to understand, acquire, and use a repertoire of assessment strategies.
• TEAM BUILDING:
  To build capacity of teams to work together toward a common purpose.
• LEADERSHIP:
  To grow leadership capacity among staff.
  

MALDEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
STRATEGIC PLAN
2003 - 2008

Goals and Objectives:

Although all of our long-range goals are important to the accomplishment of our mission, improvement of student achievement is the priority goal of this strategic plan. The other four goals are critical to accomplishing the goal and objectives in student achievement.

1.0 Student Achievement – To create and support standards-based PreK-12 curriculum, instruction, assessment, and related educational opportunities to improve student achievement.

1.1 To fully implement PreK-12 ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Science curriculum.
1.2 To increase student writing opportunities across the grades and curriculum.
1.3 To build connections and linkages between educational opportunity sponsored by the Malden Educational Community and          the student achievement goals of the schools.

2.0 Communication – To establish and promote a system of timely and equitable communications within the Malden Educational Community.

2.1 To establish guidelines for communication between faculty and administration.
2.2 To increase opportunities for dialogue among teachers, parents, and the school.
2.3 To improve communication between the community and schools through a variety of methods.

3.0 Staffing – To build the capacity and resources to recruit and retain a high quality, diverse, and committed staff.

3.1 To hire a human resource director.
3.2 To develop a career ladder plan for staff.
3.3 To aggressively recruit minority staff.

4.0 Resources – To identify, pursue, and obtain all traditional and non-traditional resources in order to maximize learning opportunities for the Malden Educational Community.

4.1 To move toward a budgeting process supported by school-based management and identified needs of students.
4.2 To explore the hiring of a full-time person to coordinate grant writing, development, and voluntarism.
4.3 To establish systems to advocate for government funding (urban) in order to meet mandated services and achievement           standards.

5.0 Parent Engagement – To increase overall parent participation in raising student achievement.

5.1 To target parents of minority populations to increase their participation in the school community.
5.2 To increase opportunities for parent involvement in and contributing to the school community.

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