Reflect on your personal 32 week learning journey through the whole
postgraduate programme
I
cannot believe that we are coming to the end of this learning journey; the
first couple of weeks I wondered what I had let myself in for.
The first sixteen
weeks to me were the most valuable. I
enjoyed the collegiality of course members, the collaboration and co-operation,
the provocations during discussions, the agreements and the disagreements, hearing
the views of people with differing personal backgrounds, experiences, and from
different stages in the seamless education system.
The second sixteen
weeks, which were online, were the toughest, having to stay focused and
remembering to do my online reading. I
missed the ability to discuss what I had read with others and get their views.
Overall,
in this course I went through stages of elation, anger, frustration, and
loneliness.
Reflect on the
12 practising teacher criteria in e-learning and reflect on three of them
Criteria 4: Demonstrate commitment to ongoing
professional learning and development of professional personal practice.
The
Mind Lab course has provided me with the opportunity to make a number of face
to face connections and make a number of online connections with others through
social media tools such as Twitter, Google+ and Facebook. These connections have discussed ideas, given
support, shared resources and given advice which has enabled me to grow
professionally.
It
has also provided me with readings and links to online videos that have enabled
me to be self-directed in my learning and reflective in my practice, so I can decide what best practice is for those in my
school community.
I have been an assistant principal for a
number of years and thought I knew what was my leadership style was, but that
was about to change. Mind Lab through LDC assignment 1 made me reflect on my
current leadership style and question its effectiveness. This was achieved through researching
different leadership models and relate the key aspects to my practice; doing
this enabled me to see that my present style was not as collaborative as I
thought, and see if there were other models that were more collaborative.
Mind
Lab through LDC assignment 2 and R&C assignment 2 have made me analyse and
critically evaluate my leadership practice, with professional literature to
reflect on and enhance my practice. I found out a lot about myself as
a leader through this process; I can articulate why I lead in the manner that I
do, and show how using a transformational leader using a coaching style leads
to effective learning for all in the learning community.
Plan and justify two main goals for your future developments
Criteria 4: Demonstrate commitment to ongoing
professional learning and development of professional personal practice.
I am
looking forward to our school moving towards a BYOC environment. This will enable me to continue to develop
and ingrain the collaborative and digital practices from the Mind Lab. Through social media I hope to continue
interacting with other course members.
To
ensure that our students become future focused learners, as teachers we need to
critically analyse our current teaching pedagogy and use of new
technologies. By doing this we will
ensure that we are able to move from passive to collaborative forms of learning
and teaching. Once we have made the move
we need to be able to give sound professional reasons to our community for the
change.
Ministry of Education (n.d.).
Practising Teacher Criteria and e-learning / Professional learning / enabling
e-Learning - enabling eLearning.
Retrieved 5 March 2016, from
http://elearning.tki.org.nz/Professional-learning/Practising-Teacher-Criteria-and-e-learning
Osterman, K.F. & Kottkamp, R.B. (1993). Reflective
practice for educators: improving schooling though professional
development. Corwin Press Inc: California. Retrieved from http://www.itslifejimbutnotasweknowit.org.uk/files/RefPract/Osterman_Kottkamp_extract.pdf
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