This reading has definitely built on my curiosity. It lead me to think of myself back in University and how most of my learning came from real life experience in the classroom.
Is has got me thinking we need to build students for those workplace skills. Companies describe them as soft skills, they are after those can have collaboration, communication, innovation and business knowledge.
If you are able to place students in the correct environment they will be able to build on these skills. At Silverton we have been fortunate enough to be place in an environment that promotes this not only for students but for teacher as well. in a team environment, learning takes place constantly. Ideas are shared from each other talking, from looking over your shoulder and being aware of your surroundings.
Something I learnt early as a teacher is that we continuously learn and the only way to better ourselves, each other and the students is to share our learning. After all what good is an amazing idea if you keep it to yourself.
In regards to the Culture of change within our school. I think everyone is willing to give things go and will definitely look forward to trialing a new program or element that can potentially improve kids learning and their capacity as a teacher. The success of the change depends how on how it its implemented, who brings upon this change and prepared this facilitator of change is. The biggest problem we face is that we constantly have something new to try or have a go at and it can become difficult to maintain on top of everything else we do as teachers.
We are fortunate to have a high capacity to build stronger teachers. Programs like this one and others are available to anyone willing to put in an application. We are constantly learning and improving on our staff mentoring and are fortunate enough to have a range of experienced staff members to draw knowledge from. We frequently assist each other in the digital implementation and understand that to achieve these goals we need to work as a team.
