Reflecting on the Journey and Sharing

'Sharing is caring' my mother always said, bless her. Today I have realised that by sharing on blogs allows others to show caring towards the one sharing. This has an incredible impact on the learning of the person sharing. Commenting, on a post, has and impact on self esteem and that impacts on self efficacy. Suddenly someone notices what you are saying. So the key to learning is getting blog post comments up. 

It has certainly impacted on my expectation that I have around the importance of quality blogging, task collaboration and feedback/feed forward. I am looking to contiue to develop my skills in this area. Would love for someone to put together an online resource for all the wonderful Responses to text that have been created as part of this programme, maybe it can be incorporated into tki so that we are able to work smarter.

Set the bar high, but doing that without creating teacher burnout. I was thinking about where I can put the pillars of practice so I don't lose site of what is important. It occurred to me that I should have ias my screen ssaver but then I thought maybe it would get lost with the folders that I have there. So I think I have settled on either the teacher work book or maybe in each of th modelling books. Planning for ambitious outcomes has taken on a whole new meaning. 

 As Alexander Graham Bell says "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

And so it is with the RFI, the journey has come to an end but is just beginning. I can see how to plan a way forward, the skills I am going to need to embed early next year to set my learners up for next year. Accountability will be the first but within that I need to keep my expectations real. I look forward to sharing what I have learned with my syndicate and school. Planning for next year needs to start now and I am looking forward to end of year testing results and redoing the Reader Survey.

I can see ways to impliment what I have learnt in other curriculum areas and look forward to the challenge next term to start setting this up for next year. Watch out learners!