Plan, Reflect, Repeat: The Whittaker Journal

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Plan your days, weeks and months, and reflect on thoughts and feelings whenever you need to with this beautiful journal. We will soon be starting the annual audit of the Code of Conduct requirements and will be looking forward to seeing what you have done over the last two years and what you are planning on doing for the next two.

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Tell Me About It ( Quality Progress) Based on the PDSA cycle, this article introduces the plan-do-study-act-export (PDSA-X) cycle, which supports the collaborative pursuit of excellence across organizational boundaries, geography and time. They will think more creatively, imaginatively and resourcefully, and be ready to adapt to new ways and methods of thinking. While most of the core principles are similar to Kolb’s, Gibbs' model is broken down further to encourage the teacher to reflect on their own thoughts and feelings. Your reflection-in-action allows you to understand why this has happened and how to respond to overcome this situation. This is carried out during the lesson rather than reflecting on how you would do things differently in the future.By following any of the above models of reflection, you will have a questioning approach to teaching. You may find that as time goes on and you develop as a reflective practitioner that you try different methods which suit your current circumstances.

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Just as a circle has no end, the PDCA cycle should be repeated again and again for continuous improvement.

From reflection, you should encourage your students to take new challenges in learning, developing a secure and confident knowledge base. I hope this blog has given you some inspiration for your CPD and I wish you a very happy, productive and safe new year. Some practical ideas include changing the task from independent work to paired work, adding a scaffold to a challenging task, providing instructions step by step, and making activities time based.

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These observations should have a very specific focus, for example the quality of questioning or the quality of student-led activities.This will allow us to think through the experience, examine our feelings about what happened and decide on the next steps. The cycle shows that we will start with an experience, either something we have been through before or something completely new to us.