Feeling the vibe.Week 9

•             What you now know about yourself, your teachers, your students and your school that you didn’t know before you started this course?

•             Identify the things you’d like to change – about yourself, your school, your teachers, your students

•             Describe your current feelings and reactions to your experiences so far in this course

•             What are you learning and what have been the most powerful learning experiences for you?

Linked to parents experience at school council

Molly asked for qualification

T agreed

Discussed parent expo night

Timley, concise

Can we show this to parents, have already shown similar stuff to parents

Discussed this I how we infuse this type of learning – discussed how kids are already taking it on- googling adjectives for writing

Talking with Wence and Kim

I think the most powerful insight I have gained through the course is how the process of change can work. I have seen it so far in my staff. One of our team’s grads commented on how far she has come with using Ipads in class – from only using it for photos to now using explain every thing. I presented and discussed Stephen Heppel’s video today and I could really see her reflecting and making connections to how we need to let the kids lead and go where there interests lie. I have now seen my own ability to lead change in the above example but now also in our planning for our team. Collaboration has also become clearer. We had an impromptu visit from the NSW teacher of the year to see our prin and she came and sat in and heard about what our journey has been like.

I feel I have lead change in our students learning which is now being shared with our school council. They walked away really buzzing last night after leadership presented the student’s achievements with Ipads so far. This will no doubt be spread throughout the wider parent community and I guess this is exactly the effect I was hoping to see as part of my ARP.

This change is the change I want to continue to see and now the next step is to spread the enthusiasm and understanding through the rest of our staff to continue the change.

I now totally get his part of the course – on leading by being in the team, by learning together how I don’t have to even expect all the leadership to come from me but also see my team mates start to share and lead too so that we are really collaborating. I have learnt to share in timely, concise manner and take discussions where my team want to go.

This course is worth it but I am really feeling the impact it is having on me, my course partners, other staff, our students and finally our parents. This was the right course for the right time.