RELIEF IS THE WORD!!!
I have just submitted my first Module how terrifying and daughenting was that!!
I feel like I can relax for the rest of the Half term. I feel like the biggest weight has been lifted of my shoulders.
It was freally easy to submit if anyone is a computer freak like me and gets worried about uploading files it's sooo easy.
I hope everyone is having a well deserved break and Happy new year!!
See you on campus in the new year ( hopefully)
Geri
Monday, 30 December 2013
Monday, 2 December 2013
Task 3B
Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.
So when developing my knowledge of Professional Networking I
looked through the Reader 3. I decided to define the meanings of each heading I
didn’t understand what some of these words meant and for me to process and
critically reflect them I need to understand them.
I first looked at what each word meant and then critically
reflected on how I use them in my Professional practise:
First word was Cooperation the definition of this is the
action or process of working together to the same end. In the reader it
mentions ‘Game Theory’ this is when One player or colleague succeeds this I
didn’t understand as how is this working
together if only one person is succeeding. In the work place especially a
school you need to work together be collaborative
for the school to work as whole. Axelord
identified that when you work together you achieve more benefits if you
cooperate fully with others. If I look back on my professional practise I
wouldn’t be anywhere as a teacher if I hadn’t worked cooperatively with the
other dance teacher here at the school we have to work together as a unit so we
can discuss the Scheme ‘s of work in place. With the Btec students who is
teaching what UNIT who is taking what part. It’s being a team. Now we have
turned into Faculty’s this has become more collaborative between departments
it’s allowing us to reap the maximum knowledge from each other’s departments by
sharing ideas, recourses and schemes of work. Last 3 years at the school it
wasn’t as a faculty Performing Arts didn’t exist as a partnership at the school only as single subjects working
together inspires students, teachers and other faculty’s to become more
collaborative.
Then I looked at Affiliation and the meaning is a state or
process of affiliating or being affiliated well this didn’t really help me as I
still didn’t know what Affiliated meant so I looked up Affiliated and this
means officially attach or connect (a subsidiary group or person) top an
organization. Also the keywords I got from this was Join up, Join Forces, Merge with. This really for me is connecting
back to the subjects becoming a Faculty this engages and merges us as one
subject and one unit for the students to see as a force. It mentions in the
reader that Humans enjoy forming close relationships with others. This helps us
psychologically allowing our brains to operate. There is a quote in the Reader
that fascinated me ‘with a network of support that will help us when we are in
need’ ( crisp & Turner 2007) For me this is how I use the campus sessions
and the blogging when I am in need of help I think right I am going to the
campus sessions I will be able to use this time to get the help I need from
others as well as give my support to other individuals. It also describes about
certain cultures and we all have different levels of affiliation with different
communities and networks. The affiliation I have in the workplace would be a
completely different affiliation I would have with my social circle and the
reason for this is at work we are set to have a certain culture and
professionalism when we are in our social network we can really let our levels
of privacy down. I think we need to be affiliates of one other in the work
place so we can develop our careers further. If I didn’t communicate and
respond to the encouragement and communities at school I would not develop as a
human being or a teacher. Everyone wants to learn and become more knowledgeable
every day we can only do this by hearing critical feedback sometimes we might
not like the feedback we are hearing but this is going to allows us to develop
as a professional. We have these certain affiliates that we have a closer bond
with that will help us grow as a more networked professional. When we are new
employees to a work place we have affiliates maybe the person you shadow for a
week you will always have a special bond with that person he/she was the person
who allowed you to grow in those few weeks or months or even a well established
practitioner needs someone there to help them at times of help and unsafeness.
I really thought this quote was incredibly true ‘It is up to each practitioner
to see how to grow their professional networks sideways (to others at an
equivalent level) as well as upwards into the established hierarchy.’
Social Constructionsism to define this is to uncover ways in
which individuals or groups participate in the construction of their perceived
social reality. This means looking at key principles of experiences that make
the world what it is today and how different people and communities have
different experiences. This happens in school every day when we look at a
student in the staff room and discussing strategies to help the student achieve
its very strange what a different experience 1 teacher will have to another
teacher and how it reflects even to the student’s behaviour.
Constructivism define this word is being institionlized. This
theory is not really used in school life any more we don’t really let the student’s
just look at the board and write from them anymore we let them be collaborative
learner let them have experiences within the classroom for them to grow. The
theory here is that student learns from the transferred knowledge taught from the
teacher the needs from the student will either be met or rejected by the
student. So this is a word that describes how we interact to learn.
Communities of Practice The term “community of practice” is
of relatively recent coinage, even though the phenomenon it refers to is
age-old. The concept has turned out to provide a useful perspective on knowing
and learning. A growing number of people and organizations in various sectors
are now focusing on communities of practice as a key to improving their
performance. This brief and general introduction examines what communities of
practice are and why researchers and practitioners in so many different
contexts find them useful as an approach to knowing and learning. Etienne Wenger-Trayner. This quote for me explains what Communities of
practice is without this we would not be able to grow as a practitioner we
would not be able to develop new ideas before putting them in a classroom.
Wenger Identified that you have to have joint enterprise as members, mutual engagements
and share repertoire. This is what we use at all our CPSD sessions at school
and how we communicate professionally at the CDTA meetings that we hold every
month.
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