Revisiting my 'What Now?'
In my last posting with Mindlab (November Intake), I outlined my future goals. Here's what I had to say then...
What Now?
After Mindlab, which in a way, I’m a little sorry to see the end of despite these last few months being trialling to say the least, I will still be a little busy:
- My immediate future goal is to complete my ACET Portfolio by mid-July, ready for tweaking before submitting in August
- Continuing to support teachers with their innovations (eg effective ipad use and using Class Seesaw) within their classroom programmes
- No more study for the rest of the year – I promised my children to be a ‘nicer’ and more ‘attentive’ Mum
- Pick up where I left off for my Masters of Ed in Semester 1, 2017
- And the biggie…continue to apply what I have learnt through Mindlab, into my classroom programmes and document everything! I’ve had the extra support of specialist teachers (ie RTLit) to show and discuss literacy data results with as an outcome of using digital innovations in my class to support learning – stimulating discussions have occurred over this pass year and further observations of student progress is required to make comparisons between 2015-2016 students
Well, I guess this is it. Thank you for the ‘ride’ and I wish all others well in their journeys. I’ll be returning to the Google+ community for a while but then soon it will be a little like returning to an empty building…you all would’ve moved out and moved on. Nevertheless, thank you.
So, what has happened since then?
- My ACET portfolio was accepted...Yay!
- I have NOT succeeded in supporting other teachers with their innovative practices - reports and end of year requirements won
- The end of the year is almost here and I am looking at taking on a Summer paper in order to get closer to completing my Masters...slowly...which means...
- I have spent a little more time with my own children but I've most probably driven them both mad in the process
- I intend to take on two more papers next year and then I only have a dissertation left to complete in 2018. I intend to apply for a sabbatical scholarship to allow me to finish this in 2018 (fingers crossed)
- To finish off, I am working at a new school in 2017 and 'implementing ICT into classroom practices' is a focus for whole staff at this new school so I'm excited about how I can play a role :)
Watch this space over the next two years! :)
