I'm a Lifelong Learner!!

There was no such thing as reflective practice when I started teaching back in the early 90s. You just got on with the job and if you didn't know what to do you asked or you sank. I remember constantly feeling inadequate. Always wondering if I was doing ok. I felt that it was a very lonely job when you first came out, there were no appraisal systems, no one ever looked at the twelve criteria for teaching!! unheard of, you were just signed off. Twenty-five years on I am trying to do something I have had no training in. Reflective practice. What is it really? Why do I need to do it? How long will it take? Sellars (2017) describes the reflective practice as "the tool which teacher, student teacher, teacher assistants, to understand themselves, their personal philosophies and the dynamics of their classroom more deeply"  Where do I start? What model will I use? so many questions, so little time to decide. In this fast-paced moving world of today, I wonder if this is the p...

Are you a leader or a follower? a Shephard or a sheep? Are you 'do as I say' or 'do as I do?' I often think how easy it is to slip into anyone of those roles. Is one of them more superior than the other? I mean, one will probably get more money than the other. "So let them earn their money!" I hear you say (or was it me?) I use to think like that, I actually was one of those who got the bigger bucks. I spent the whole time thinking that I had to earn this, I cannot ask anyone to do anything, I cannot allocate because I am the one who has the title and getting the renumeration. Needless to say I failed as a 'leader' burnt myself out and declared that I will never go back to that roll again. Until.... I attended Mindlab. Boy I wish I had been going before that. To be a leader is not a foundtain of all knowledge who must be gleaned from and regarded as the one and only source. In fact I have grown to really dislike that word 'leader'. They just h...