My professional learning plan is focused on faculty teaching courses in the New Student Experience (NSE) program at Baylor.  This is the target audience for my overall innovation plan in 5305, and it is a natural extension of what I began developing as an online course in 5318.  My goal is to help these faculty members adopt and use ePortfolios with their first-year undergraduate students. The Planning Stage is scheduled for the Fall 2020 semester to allow time to meet with the various constituents and to finalize the second stage as needed. The Implementation Stage is scheduled to begin in Spring 2021 which is typically a somewhat easier term for many faculty to participate in online professional learning activities. This outline is also based around the BHAG and 3-column table related to my overall Innovation Plan.

One of the hardest parts of most professional learning plans is to foster self-directed learning. By carefully guiding the learners to figure things out on their own, they will be much more willing to engage with what you have taught them.  Just as WOPR was carefully guided into playing unwinnable tic-tac-toe games against itself in the movie WarGames to finally learn that the only way to win Global Thermonuclear War is not to play, teachers can be carefully guided into discovering so much on their own.  By engaging my faculty in self-directed learning, I hope to spark a bit of excitement that translates over into their own ePortfolios.

You can view my plan description and the Professional Learning Plan Outline, or to view the live version in Microsoft Excel Online, please visit:
Professional Learning Plan Outline