2019 Professional Goals

At Durham Academy:

-Spend more time talking to advisees who I don’t teach.

-Organize my curriculum portfolio using Rubicon and Google Drive.

-Video record three teaching demos: one on grammar instruction, one on guided inductive drilling, one on classroom activity.

-Collaborate with Spanish and French teachers on Language Labs.

-Collaborate with MS Chinese teacher on curriculum mapping, textbooks, and Chinese history topics.

-Update the news and photos on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr) more frequently and regularly (once or twice a week).

-Maintain “DA Chinese Program Website” regularly (once a month).

-Complete and collect feedback from the Exchange program and Capstone trip to China.

Outside Durham Academy:

-Continue presenting my research in Chinese pedagogy at national and local conferences (ACTFL, CLTA, FLANC).

-Bring DA program to Duke and UNC Chapel Hill Chinese classrooms regularly -one in the fall and one in the spring.

-Host annual conference in August, and Connect teachers from K-12 and higher education, as the president of Chinese Language Teacher Association of NC in 2019-2021.

-Serve as Independent School Representative of FLANC Board starting in October.

-Attend two summer teacher training programs (STARTALKs). Reflect on what I've learned.