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Enneagram PD at CTK

Tuesday 26 Jan 2016
Had an inspiring pd session at CTK today

The Ennagram
 Defining the 9 different personality types
I'm a 2  a carer with wings 1 and 3  that's the reformer and the achiever respectively
and I'm happy with that

A New Era of PD for NZ teachers

Core Ed's Derek Wenmoth's blogpost

"There’s an old saying, “There’s nothing more certain than change”, and this will certainly be true as educators in NZ prepare to return to work in 2016. Whether we’re re-thinking what we teach,how we teach, where we teach and even who we teach, dealing with the demands of change is the biggest challenge facing schools, kura, and centres today."

"Life" - great growth mindset poem from 1903

I found this in a poem book belonging to my late father - Vic Ashe

The little red book is titled "Poems of Power" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1903)

Just goes to show growth mindset is not a new concept but something we need to learn - or are we born with a growth mindset? Something to ponder on...
anyway, the poem ..

Life

All in the dark we grope along,

And if we go amiss

We learn at least which path is

Wrong,

And there is gain in this.

We do not always win the race

By only running right;

We have to tread the mountain’s base

Before we reach it’s height.

The Christs alone no errors made;

So often had they trod

The paths that lead through the light and shade,

They had become as God.

As Krishna, Buddha, Christ again,

They passed along the way,

And left these might truths which men

But dimly grasp today.

But he who loves himself the last

And knows the use of pain,

Though strewn with errors all his past,

He surely shall attain.

Some souls there are that needs must taste

Of wrong, ere choosing right;

We should not call those years a waste

Which led us to the light.

By Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Uni blog for Applied Practice paper

As part of my uni studies I have created a blog - PD4me.blogspot.co.nz.

The paper is Applied Practice in Context (DCL) APC CISC 8100 and it is the last in the Post Grad Applied Practice - Digital Collaborative Learning via The Mindlab(Unitec) with thanks to the NEXT Foundation for the scholarship I have received.

During the final 8 weeks the Learning Outcomes will be: -
1. Demonstrate a critical understanding of how indigenous knowledge and cultural responsiveness inform practice.
2. Critique and evaluate practice in the context of different audiences )local, national, and/or international) and their perspectives.
3. Critically analyse issues of-
4. Critique and address issues of law, regulations and policy in practice.

This will all be on the PD4me.blogspot.co.nz blog.

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