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| Snow could arrive this weekend! Shot taken last year of Hamlet Green 100 m around the corner. |
The Friday Reflection!
Reflective practice in action in less than 500 words. A worthy aim see if I can achieve this self imposed limit. This week has been a very good week for the Bank Street College of Education OFLC (Online Faculty Learning Community) activity. One of the problems, often, with a "normal" teaching job is the inability to find time to reflect. The demands certainly of UK education has reflective practice talked about but often not considered a vital of good practice. I admit I have been guilty of this in the past!
I set myself a number of tasks when planning my Google Calendar for the week last Saturday morning. The calendar I have been using now for more than a couple of years for time management. This will be one of the tasks I will doing on Saturday morning.
The major task for the week was formalising a specific project for attention. That has been initiated and completed up to the point of planning the logistics. This has also been shared with the OFLC ready for comment and collaboration. On reflection although the proposal looks to be a self-contained project of delivering CPD to a specific aim of familiarising teacher with Scratch, that may not be all that is needed!
The article highlighted by one of our collaborators (not mentioning names since this blog is in the public domain) , College is dead ... in Time magazine was instructive. I have previously used articles in my own Life Long Learning in another blog from the Harvard Business Review. A journal I have a little familiarity with from all the Daniel Golman reprints that fly around British Schools. Time is a publication not usually looked at by an English Audience certainly not in the context of Professional Practice. Point to note then is that not all publications have to have a direct subject specific target audience to be useful. Articles of mass appeal and importance are sometimes better where they can viewed by the greatest number in this case Time. After all we do own our own learning, don't we?
So up to this point how are we doing. Word count 348 to the question mark. Enough reflection and food for thought for next week. A medium term plan would be for me to look at how the OFLC schedule fits in with the project and also the other working commitments. A long term plan up to the end of the OFLC schedule and beyond encompassing maintaining collaboration and extending collaboration and skills would be an aspirational task. Probably now on or near the 500 word limit and have some achievable aims for the next week? OK, copy and pasted into OpenOffice and word counted (440 words).
So enough written now. We have a snow day predicted in Suffolk. Visitation from sister, niece , nephew and bouncy Spaniel. Cat is really going to enjoy that. But all part of maintaining the Work-Life balance!
The major task for the week was formalising a specific project for attention. That has been initiated and completed up to the point of planning the logistics. This has also been shared with the OFLC ready for comment and collaboration. On reflection although the proposal looks to be a self-contained project of delivering CPD to a specific aim of familiarising teacher with Scratch, that may not be all that is needed!
The article highlighted by one of our collaborators (not mentioning names since this blog is in the public domain) , College is dead ... in Time magazine was instructive. I have previously used articles in my own Life Long Learning in another blog from the Harvard Business Review. A journal I have a little familiarity with from all the Daniel Golman reprints that fly around British Schools. Time is a publication not usually looked at by an English Audience certainly not in the context of Professional Practice. Point to note then is that not all publications have to have a direct subject specific target audience to be useful. Articles of mass appeal and importance are sometimes better where they can viewed by the greatest number in this case Time. After all we do own our own learning, don't we?
So up to this point how are we doing. Word count 348 to the question mark. Enough reflection and food for thought for next week. A medium term plan would be for me to look at how the OFLC schedule fits in with the project and also the other working commitments. A long term plan up to the end of the OFLC schedule and beyond encompassing maintaining collaboration and extending collaboration and skills would be an aspirational task. Probably now on or near the 500 word limit and have some achievable aims for the next week? OK, copy and pasted into OpenOffice and word counted (440 words).
So enough written now. We have a snow day predicted in Suffolk. Visitation from sister, niece , nephew and bouncy Spaniel. Cat is really going to enjoy that. But all part of maintaining the Work-Life balance!
Do you watch RSA Animate?
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Hi John will have a look.
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