TONY BIRKIN - TEACHING AS INQUIRY/COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
Notes: Open to learning conversations, socialising way of thinking - the way we talk to colleagues. Relationships over honesty - how do we balance this with different ways of knowing, can everyone cope with/take on board the honesty. How do we then show this to our children, we are bringing up children to be kind to others, how does this translate into honesty? Appraisal 2015 - lack of red thinking/feelings, is this a fault of Self-Authoring? I know this is an area I need to work on. How can we have open conversations to evaluate each other's teaching practice without feeling threatened? What is a team? Collaboration can be become -Conblabberation -Contrived Collegiality - people I am being asked to work with aren't people I would usually choose to work with, how do we work with this in schools? - Congenial vs Collegial Takes a lot of effort and sacrifice to create a real team. A group of people is not a team (noun) need to begin teaming. Need to have one set...