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Satoe Ogawa

Professor Lovitt
SED322
April 16, 2017
Professional Growth Plan

How will this Relevant Time-target


Specific Goal goal be Achievement Level Alignment to Date
measured? Best Practices
I will design I will research Depending on the Students who 2nd Year of
instruction/a and try out an progress of the become Teaching
ctivities that engaging students and how accustomed
gain activity in the well the activity to the new
students beginning of engages them, I strategies that
attention the class every will integrate new are used in
and has week to get activities for them the classroom,
them students to use. I will ask for especially if
engaged accustomed to students thoughts the activities
with the the activity. I on the activities as are engaging,
lesson from will try out new well, what they it helps them
the activities or fix thought worked, feel more
beginning of the activity and what they comfortable
Planni class. accordingly to thought did not when doing
ng help students work. What could that task.
and be more have made it more When they are
Prepa engaged with engaging? comfortable
ration the lesson. with their new
learning task,
and that
activity
pushes them
to learn and
be more
engaged,
students will
be more likely
to take away
the
information
being taught.
How will this Relevant Time-target
Specific Goal goal be Achievement Level Alignment to Date
measured? Best Practices
I will be able to I will create a Depending on the Students that 3rd year of
design my rubric or students and how are constantly teaching
own rubric formative they learn best, I getting
or assessment will assess students assessed do
assessment that keeps with various new better on the
strategies to students in assessments that I final
Planni check check every will research, and assessments.
ng students chapter. check students When the
and content knowledge student
Prepa knowledge throughout the always has an
ration and lessons. objective with
language an
skill. assessment,
they are more
engaged with
the lesson as
well.

I will create a I will have Depending on after When students 4th Year of
respectful, students share reading the feel safe Teaching
safe, and in writing students thoughts inside the
supportive anonymously if and their ratings of classroom,
learning they felt the class, if there and know that
environment comfortable are 80% of the people in
where all enough in the students that gave the classroom
students classroom to a 7 and up then it are supportive
Classr feel share their will be a success. of each
comfortable thoughts. Then others
oom
to share they will rate thinking, and
Enviro who they from 1 to 10 (1 beliefs, they
nment are, their being not will feel more
thoughts, comfortable, opened to talk
and treat and 10 being about their
others the very knowledge.
same way comfortable). This leads to a
they want to better
be treated. learning
environment
as well.
How will this Relevant Time-target
Specific Goal goal be Achievement Level Alignment to Date
measured? Best Practices
I will maintain In the first week Depending on the When students 1st year of
a classroom of school, I will actions of the understand teaching
where all go over the classroom and how the
students procedures well the students take procedures
can follow that are to be on the and rules of
the rules of taken inside activities/beginning of the classroom,
Classr the class, the classroom class activities that lessons will go
and know constantly. occur, I will keep smoother, and
oom
what After the first informing them of the tasks will be
Enviro procedures week, I will procedures. accomplished
nment they need to keep quicker. They
take to reminding the will be more
accomplish students, but on task and
tasks inside not as engaged with
the extensively as any activity
classroom. the first week. that they are
given.

I will improve It will be If students feel more When the 5th year of
how I measured by relevancy to the content teaching
engage using the content that they connects to
students Arizona State are being taught the students
with the Standards and and are more real lives, to
learning by checking interested in the the real world,
making the whether I things that they are or just has
content integrate the 5 learning then I will more
Instru taught more Cs of have achieved my relevancy to
ction relevant and language, goal. If students them,
connect it which are can use the students are
with their Culture, language more
background Communities, knowledge outside engaged,
knowledge/o Connections, of the school and in focused, and
ther Comparisons, the community want to learn
subjects and then it is a success. the content.
taught in Communicatio
school. n.
How will this Relevant Time-target
Specific Goal goal be Achievement Level Alignment to Date
measured? Best Practices
I will I will keep an Depends on the When students 4th Year of
demonstrate organized students grades, have different teaching
flexibility folder on the their behavior in needs,
and be computer that class, and other teachers need
responsive contains up to information to be flexible
to the date grades. I regarding the and
students will also reflect students in my differentiate,
needs. on how the class that shows which will help
students that I need to students learn
participate differentiate or in various
Instru inside the respond to those ways. If the
ction classroom, and students that need teacher can
their growth to extra help. If help each
see what I students level of student in
have done or achievement is that manner,
have not done high in the current whether it is
to help student records, their behavior,
students their behavior is grades, etc.,
progress. good, and they are the student
growing in the will become a
content, then it is a better learner.
success.

I will improve I will attend the AZLA workshops The strategies 1st Year of
my AZLA provide language that are Teaching
knowledge conference teachers with new taught can be
on how to activities, effective and
specifically workshops that strategies, and it can also be
teach they have experiences that a good look
language throughout the are shared from the back as to
better to language teachers what
students
year to gain that have been in strategies I
through a new language the program for was applying
program strategies, new years. I will wrongly into
called the activities to upgrade my the classroom,
Profes
AZLA activities that I use or how I can
sional conference. teach in the class, or use make that
Respo language, talk at least 4 new activity better
nsibili strategies that are fitting for the
to other
ties taught at the classroom.
language workshops into my The
teachers, hear lessons. knowledge
experiences, that the other
teachers have
learn how to can positively
manage a influence how
classroom I manage the
better, and etc. classroom and
how students
learn as well.
How will this Relevant Time-target
Specific Goal goal be Achievement Level Alignment to Date
measured? Best Practices
I will improve I will keep an I will use my This is an 1st Year of
my teaching online or reflections to make ongoing Teaching
methods binder journal my lessons better process of (or basically
through that I will write and engaging for development all years of
writing a into every day the students. that I will teaching)
daily after school Constantly need to apply
reflection on and write adapting new as a teacher
how my about the ideas, technology, to effectively
lessons go positives and and new strategies get better at
every day. I negatives of into the lesson teaching the
will write the day, and plans. Daily content
Profes down what how I can reflection will language to
sional went well, differentiate to improve my my students.
Respo what did not make my teaching strategies My reflections
nsibili go well, and lessons better. and how I apply the will help me
ties what I could lesson into the look back to
do to classroom. There what my
improve the achievement is strengths are
lesson. constant because and what I
there are always should not do
ways to make a in a lesson,
lesson better than which will be
it currently is. helpful as I
strive to
become a
better teacher
every day.

As a teacher there is a long term goal that I would work on during the five years that I

work at a school. This is to work on my masters degree and then to move onto get my doctorates

as well. Getting the degree is part of my goal that I need to achieve in order to become a

professor and start working in a university environment. As a student, I felt that learning

Japanese in the college level was very intriguing and very worth the time and money that I put

into it. Maybe this is because I do not really know what it is like to learn in the high school

setting, and this is the perspective that I have as a student. However, I want to successfully work

my way up as a teacher, and as a person of this society. I do not want to stay in one place and just

stay at the same level my entire life. I want to move forward and advance my knowledge in both

Japanese and teaching. As a teacher I want to do my best to progress in the way I teach, and
effectively teach to all types of students. By the end of 2022 I hope to already have my masters,

and be half way done with my Doctorates.


When I become a teacher I will participate in the Arizona Language Association program

where all language teachers come together to dedicate in the professional development of

networking, improving, and teaching/learning world languages. This provides a chance for me to

connect with all the other language teachers, share information on teaching lessons and etc.,

while learning and stealing each others effective instruction styles for teaching the target

language. There is also the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages).

They focus on the improvement and expansion of teaching and learning all languages at different

levels of instruction as well. This is throughout the States, not just America so it is on a bigger

scale. I believe that being part of these programs will help me to improve as a language teacher

as I take part in the events, communicate with the members, share my knowledge, and gain

knowledge as well.
In my content area, which is Japanese, there are endless things that I will learn as I

become a teacher, have my own classroom, and work with students/teachers/administrators.

There will be something new for me to learn every day, as I teach new/old lessons to students of

various levels. There is the history of Japan, the culture, present Japan versus past Japan, food,

mannerism/etiquette, sports, politics, places/travel, kanji, and etc. There are so many things that I

do now know about Japan or its culture. I know that as I teach the language and the culture to my

students, I will learn new information every day. As I teach my students the language, I will learn

what is effective and what is not, and how the students learn best in each class. There are

numerous styles to teaching a language and how students learn, I have to be opened to trying out

new lessons, and putting my effort to keep the students engaged in the lessons.
During the time that I teach, I want to invest into improving the way I teach by reflecting

and always looking back at what I need to do to fix my lessons. I need to think about what I
could have done better to get the students engaged or work together inside the classroom. I also

need to understand my positive points, so that I know what I am doing right, and how I should

apply that into the rest of my teaching style. There are always going to be times where I feel as if

I could have done something else to make the lesson more successful and students actually get

something out of it. During those times, I want to share with other teachers on what I could have

done to make the lesson more effective, or even ask the students what they were lacking in order

to learn the objective of that day. I believe that self-reflecting, communicating with co-workers,

and taking part in programs inside and outside of school such as the AZLA program will help me

continue improve my teaching practice.


In the school community, I would like to become a model teacher that students can look

up to, a teacher that students can feel open to, safe, and rely upon. As a teacher, I want to make

the students school environment a place to learn about other peoples cultures, a place to work on

themselves, how to respect others, and how to work in a society that has everyone contributing

and working together. Contributions that I would like to make are to work as an after school tutor

to help students work on developing their Japanese skills, to catch up on work, or to just assist

students with the knowledge that I have, regardless of whether the subject that they were

working on was Japanese or not.


As I stated earlier, I plan on participating in the AZLA organization if I stay in Arizona.

As a language teacher I believe that the workshops that AZLA holds is an important setting

where language teachers can connect and learn from one another. At these workshops that they

hold, they teach about teaching strategies, activities, lesson plan ideas, and more. I have only

been to one, however, I learned various strategies that I never learned before, and new ideas on

how to use an old activity that I already knew to work with language skills that I never thought I
could apply to that activity. When I become a language teacher, I hope to attend all the

workshops I can in order to gain new insight, ideas, and teaching strategies.

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