Personalised Learning




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Building and Sustaining Relational Trust

Image
What is relational trust and how is it developed? Each party in a relationship maintains an understanding of his or her role's obligations and holds some expectations about the obligations of the other parties. For a school community to work well, it must achieve agreement in each role relationship in terms of the understandings held about these personal obligations and expectations of others. An interrelated set of mutual dependencies are embedded within the social exchanges in any school community. Regardless of how much formal power any given role has in a school community, all participants remain dependent on others to achieve desired outcomes and feel empowered by their efforts. As individuals interact with one another around the work of schooling, they are constantly discerning the intentions embedded in the actions of others. They consider how others' efforts advance their own interests or impinge on their own self-esteem. They ask whether others' behavior refl...
Read more

Strategically Thinking and Planning

When a problem arises it isn't a quick fix or a static problem which requires only a single individual to fix. The environment requires a leader to Probe or Investigate, make Sense of the issue then Respond to it. A Complex Adaptive Environment requires more than one expert or leader to oversee, lead, or make change. The environment is classed as an experimental environment as there are so many different variables to consider. Cynefin Framework by Stone (2017) in “Leading on complex environments” What is it about traditional strategic thinking and planning that makes it unsuitable for ensuring sustainability in complex adaptive environments? Schools are Complex Adaptive Environment and therefore can't rely on linear procedures to tackle issues. The education system is constantly evolving and at rates that are often hard to keep on top of. With changes will always come resistance and is that resistance that cause schools to be complex adaptive environments. For...
Read more

Activity 2: Reflection on learning and practice

At the beginning of this course back in July 2015, one of the activities we were required to do was ask ourselves which Key Competencies we felt were strengths and which we felt needed developing. There are three that I felt were my strengths: Managing Self, Relating to Others, and Participating and Contributing. The Key Competency that I felt less competent with was Using Language, Symbols and Text. The Key Competencies I felt I have focussed on the most over the last 24 weeks of studying with the MindLabs have been Thinking, Managing Self, and Participating and Contributing. These haven't just been focussed on for course requirements, but I have found I have had to focus on these areas regarding family and work as well. The two key areas of change I have made in my own practice has been to: 1. Step aside and observe my student's needs and direct them to solve problems on their own but with some guidance, allowing them to feel comfortable about making mistakes as th...
Read more