Week 32: Changes in Practice and Future Plans
As this experience comes to an end, and it’s time to reflect on where I started, what I have thought about/learned and where I am now. I have based my reflection on the Rolfe et al.’s (2001) reflective model. What I believe my teaching style was very traditional. This is to do with my length of service – a 1977 start. Traditionally, if students collaborated, it was seen as cheating, and would lead to classroom management issues as students chatted and were quickly off task. In 2017 as I headed into the Mind Lab course I took a punt and experimented with 20% time with my Year 10 students. My students loved it. In my mind 50% of the groups were successful and 50% were not. The unsuccessful was generally to do with the frustration with the software not working as expected rather than the students not participating as expected. The results of this action I believe is that we are back to two Year 10 Digital classes in 2018 as against one in 2017. The surveys held at