Professional Growth Plan

Usually, at the beginning of school, we will set our own goals, action plans, and strategies to be taken.

In the middle of the semester, I will meet with my mentor-（principal Jon） to reflect and make a new plan or continue the previous one.

At the end of the semester, I will meet with my mentor to make a year-end summary and reflect on which parts need to improve.

The school identifies and provides appropriate professional development support.

The school implements and reviews systems and processes to identify the needs of teachers.

Whether PMS or PG & D, both professional development strategies are very positive, engaging and workable for the educator to improve professional abilities and benefit students and themselves.

The Highlight of my PD experiences should be that our Chinese team worked together to explore Visible feedback learning strategies. We designed an action plan and applied it to different year levels. Our goal is to determine whether visible feedback can improve students’ Chinese learning and, ultimately, the best visible feedback strategies for efficiently improving Chinese learning and teaching. This research experiment found that different visible feedback strategies are suitable for different year levels.

This Action Research became my 2nd Master‘s degree research paper; I got an A grade and positive feedback from the professor from The State University of New York, USA ( SUNY- Buffalo). The same year, we went to Melbourne to attend the 7th ISCLE conference, and we met Dr John Hattie and shared our research with him. John appreciated our research and hoped we could do further experiments and reflections.