Yesterday Point Cook put up a good post about a resource that can help you learn to create your own Professional Learning Network.
school library staff, educators, learning support personnel and
curriculum leaders. It's well worth a look considering the role Professional Networks will play in the upcoming National Professional Standards for Teachers.
Thanks Point Cook CRT Network for the heads up!
So, we are saying "we are doing our best to be your ready-made professional network". Why would we also recommend this too?
National Standards for Teaching, Standard 6, 6.3 "engage with colleagues and improve Practice", "Highly Accomplished":
So, we are saying "we are doing our best to be your ready-made professional network". Why would we also recommend this too?
National Standards for Teaching, Standard 6, 6.3 "engage with colleagues and improve Practice", "Highly Accomplished":
"Initiate and engage in professional discussions with colleagues in a range of forums to evaluate practice directed at improving professional knowledge and practice, and the educational outcomes of students."
While we can certainly cater to the "average" CRT, there's only so far we can take it before the new National Standards for Teaching move up into that "highly accomplished" level and start wanting you to branch out.
One thing we don't advocate is looking at the "career stages" and use that as if it's what you should try and achieve. If you think you can achieve more, and want to achieve more, then we firmly believe you should be given every opportunity to do so.
Exploring the boundaries of what you are capable of is an excellent way of identifying your strong and "not so strong" areas as a Teacher. I'm a CRT "by trade" but by exploring my personal boundaries and improving what that showed me I needed to improve? I'm now also a CRT Network Coordinator, a moderately successful blogger, have come up with my own hands-on teaching strategies/resources, used them to become an effective Literacy tutor and moved on to also present those strategies in Workshop form to other teachers.
Aim high!
One thing we don't advocate is looking at the "career stages" and use that as if it's what you should try and achieve. If you think you can achieve more, and want to achieve more, then we firmly believe you should be given every opportunity to do so.
Exploring the boundaries of what you are capable of is an excellent way of identifying your strong and "not so strong" areas as a Teacher. I'm a CRT "by trade" but by exploring my personal boundaries and improving what that showed me I needed to improve? I'm now also a CRT Network Coordinator, a moderately successful blogger, have come up with my own hands-on teaching strategies/resources, used them to become an effective Literacy tutor and moved on to also present those strategies in Workshop form to other teachers.
Aim high!
Regards,
Mel
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