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Do-It-Yourself Professional Development
(Print this form and complete it off-line.)

Inventory of Current Professional Development Activities

1. List the periodic publications related to your field that you know about. After you have done that, draw a circle around the titles of the publications you read regularly, and a square around the titles of the publications read from time to time.
   
   
   
   
2. How many professional conferences have you attended in the past year?
   
   
   
   
3. What professional organizations do you belong to?
   
   
   
   
4. Within the past two years have you:

   held any office in any professional organization?    attended any professional development workshop?    written any articles for publication?    planned any workshop or conference session?    traveled abroad other than as a tourist?    conducted any studies related to educational exchange?    taken any course related to your work?

   YES    NO YES    NO YES    NO YES    NO YES    NO YES    NO YES    NO




5. Name two books related to your work that you have read during the past six months.
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6. Name two books related to your work that are on your to-read list or on your to-read pile.
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Inventory of Professional Development Needs

Skills Rating

Use a check mark to show whether you consider your level of skill with respect to each item to be low, medium, or high.

Low Med High 1. Using work time efficiently 2. Writing clear letters and memos 3. Explaining things clearly when talking 4. Giving clear instructions 5. Making public presentations 6. Keeping accurate records 7. Listening to others, hearing not just the words but the underlying feelings 8. Supervising personnel

Low Med High 9. Working constructively with the boss 10. Planning: setting objectives and assessing your progress towards them 11. Setting priorities 12. Withholding judgment about other people's values 13. Making decisions 14. Implementing decisions 15. Avoiding procrastination 16. Conducting lively, fruitful meetings 17. Networking

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Knowledge Rating

On the back of this sheet, list the five subject matter areas you think it is most important for people in your area of specialization to know about. Then indicate whether your own level of knowledge in each of these five areas is low, medium, or high.

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Professional Development Plan

Look over your ratings of your knowledge and skills. Mark the two skills and the two areas of knowledge in which you think it is most important for you to improve. Write your selections here:

Skills:
Knowledge:

List at least two (three or four would be better) ways in which you could improve in the areas you have just listed.

Skill (a)	Skill (b)	Knowledge (a)	Knowledge (b)
1. 2. 3. 4.	1. 2. 3. 4.	1. 2. 3. 4.	1. 2. 3. 4.

In each of the four columns above, circle two activities to which you could realistically commit yourself between now and the end of the calendar year.

Write down the two professional development activities you have decided you could begin by the end of the current academic period. Beside each of them write down the first step you would have to take to start that activity (for example, check a book out of the library, get information about registering for a course). Then write down the date by which you plan to take each of those first steps.

Activity	First Step	Date
a. b .

Now go to it! And good luck.