Professional Development: Goals

Part of becoming a good teaching is developing professionally. For me as a trained language teacher that means keeping up my language skills, staying in touch with the current news and trends from Spanish and German speaking countries as well as up to date with language learning methodology. SO I've decided to post my goals on here in the hope it will make me a little more accountable for achieving them!

Goals

• Volunteer for home visits with Spanish and German speaking aged care residents. More info here: http://govolunteer.com.au/
• Watching TV from Spain and Germany. Great channels are rtve.es and daserste.de . If anyone is studying another language and knows of a good website then please comment! I chose the ones above because you can stream all the shows for free or watch live tv. There are many other channels but these seem to have a good selection of shows. I love Familia from rtve.es!
• Take the C1 exam for both German and Spanish. This goal isn't something I plan on doing immediately because I'd like to undertake a little more study as well.
• Practise writing in my languages. Keep up my penpal exchange with the girl from Germany and Blog about Tv shows or movies I'm watching.
• Join the MLTA, Spanish, German and ESL Teachers Associations. 
• Get a job actually teaching languages and take part in the Endeavour Fellowship aka a free learning exchange trip to a foreign country. Sounds like a dream come true! More info here:http://deewr.gov.au/endeavour-language-teacher-fellowship-practising-language-teacher-questions
• Maintain this blog with reflection on my teaching and posts about my involvement in any of the above points.
• Read newspapers in Spanish and German. Some available in Australia are El español and The Spanish Herald as well as Die Woche for German. You may need to find a specialist news agency or a larger one that stocks them. But they are a great cheap resource not only for yourself but your students too!

I would love to hear other language teachers thoughts on how they continue to develop professionally as well!