I'm a Lifelong Learner!!

It has taken me a bit to get my thoughts and my head around what Communities of Practice (CoP) actually are and to identify if I am even in one. Thankfully, I am in a CoP and it is just beginning to grow. I really liked the youtube clip by Knox 2009. I liked the way he illustrated CoP's like a garden. This is when it became clearer.  My first authentic inquiry topic is around creating individualised and co-constructed learning pathways for my Year 11 and 12 students in Learning Support. I have 6 students at the moment and they are all on different pathways and needing different credits. I had no idea where to start and how to begin. I have come from Primary teaching, so NCEA is absolutely new to me. So I buddied up with a colleague in the English department who is taking Year 11 and 12 but she is struggling with the low-level learners and needs my help with how to simplify their program. It was a perfect match and the need, passion and enthusiasm has started my first genuine...

Reflecting on changes in my future oriented teaching practice Blog Two Lynne Green Nov2017 Bombay 3/4/17 Theme 1: Personalising learning Now that I have a full time role in the Learning Support area of the school, I am confronted with students and their learning needs hour by hour. There is no one independently capable of making any learning journey decisions. I think they have been so conditioned to sitting passively in the background that they are not able to critically think for themselves. They certainly haven’t been asked for opinions or their views. I see the look of surprise and fear when I do ask them. Silencing the wide mouth frogs has been the first job. We have then had to learn to be ok with the silence as we wait for those slow processors to offer their valuable idea or answer. Our hour of power has become quite different. It is upon this reflection that I would like to say that I now try and personalise the learning in Maths. I have worked the lessons around the pat...