Ramblings

This has been an interesting adventures with Mind Lab this year. But as I look back, I am not thinking this has been career changing or direction altering with my vocation. The journey has still been really beneficial. It has helped me crystallise what I already thought about learning and teaching, and was hopefully, already practicing. This is an aspect of good leadership that is often overlooked. Giving staff a chance to just sit and reflect, rather than charging forward into yet another change or new direction. I have enjoyed this consolidation period. So, Mind Lab has not really exposed me to anything new, or refreshing. But everything we have covered has been of value as a reinforcing, consolidating theme. The in class time was a great way of meeting likeminded educators who have a passion for moving forward and not continuing to do things the way they always have. However, like Charlotte Buchanan, I thought what we were exposed to “was a little less hype or WOW factor as...

As a primary school teacher, I have found this to be the hardest post to write. My thinking hasn't travelled down the narrow, subject or task specific path in years. I am not specialist enough to have the luxury of ever thinking that I know enough about one, single discipline to do it paramount justice. I found it interesting, that in all my readings on the area of Interdisciplinary Collaboration, all the discussions and examples used revolved around High School and University teaching. As a primary school teacher, I believe my strength is my belief that I am  not  a specialist. From this belief grows an ideal in my practice, that I need to look outward and find other avenues, other possibilities, other support mechanisms. Not being a specialist and all that entails, frees me up to make connections and create new pathways. I make connections when I teach. Time is short, and the task complex. Therefore, primary teachers perhaps integrate, crossover, and make conne...