This section is for those teachers who are undertaking this unit alone and are not part of a Teacher Learning Community structure. The section provides well researched ways for planning and reflecting on your changing classroom practice
When teachers want or need to improve it actually involves them in changing their teaching habits. It’s not just about knowing new stuff, like reading the previous sections, it is about doing what you do differently. That’s much harder. It involves changes to;
- what you know – knowledge
- what you believe – feelings or attitudes
- what you can do – your skills
- what you actually do – putting it all into practice
So changing how you teach is a delicate, complex process……...that’s why it’s hard!
And the hardest thing isn’t getting new ideas into teachers’ heads
It’s getting the old ones out…….that’s why it takes time and effort.
It takes time and practice to undo old habits and become graceful at new ones……that’s why we have provided materials here to help you to plan the changes you want to make, monitor what happens in your classroom as the changes happen, and reflect on the impact of those changes; their worth and value.
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