Many scholars consider planning as a key success factor, especially if it is executed skillfully. It is considered as a road map for the journey you want to go for. Planning is also focusing on the priorities of tasks and designing to accomplish them in order of importance. This is why Steven Covey calls planning “sharpening the saw” (Covey, 2004:287). As educator, I have settled several goals in both the short and long term in order to expedite my continued development. These goals fall into several categories, but they all echo my desire for continued growth in my professional aptitudes. The first category of goals is related to my academic growth as a professional educator. In the short term, my goal is to complete my master’s degree in Educational Leadership Program through Roehampton University. This goal will be accomplished within two and half years and will spot a noteworthy achievement in my academic development. In the long term, my academic goals include further training in Leadership and Project Management within the next ten years. These academic goals reflect my personal desire to increase my understanding of my role in leading the educational process in my region and the best ways to qualify my teachers by integrating the things I have learned into my every day practices as an educator. Thoroughly connected to my academic goals is the research skill. This temporary goal will allow me to develop better my studying in my master’s degree and in my career as a whole. Like my academic goals, this research goal will help me increase knowledge about my major and master it effectively. I always need to be aware of what is up to date in my pitch. It will also, allow me to develop the most effective methods for managing and monitoring my teachers’ learning and vocational growth. The final category of my professional development goals is related to my continued involvement in learning communities both with in and out the school district. I have a goal for the short term. It is to develop an instructional coaching program for the whole teachers in my school and to become the first instructional coach in the school district. This coaching program will help bring the members of the staff together as a cooperative learning community and build a unique profile for every teacher. This will help address every single teacher with his individual plan that fits his career and personality. I hope that this goal will be completed within the next year. In the long term, my goals involve launching a training center that will serve as the light house of the professional development for the whole region. Achieving this goal will allow me to become more involved in my professional organization as a learning community, as well as giving me an opportunity to share what I have learned through my own teaching and professional development experiences. This presentation goal will be accomplished within ten years.
Finally, having all these goals in mind, I know that I have a lot of work to achieve. I shall exert all my efforts reach my expectations. As it is said by Kobe Bryant “I can step up my preparation because I prepare myself as much as I can all the time� (Williams& Hussar,2011).