Reflections...

This will be your last and final blog entry! I can hear your sighs of relief from here!! Ahhh....

What I would like you to do is to reread each of the posts and every one's responses, paying particular attention the the journey you have been on. I have done this with some of you and if you actually print them out you can see how your thinking has changed over time. It is really quite a remarkable record of you and your growth and the processes you have gone through along the way. For each of you it is individual and unique.

As this is our last blog I am really asking that you take the next few weeks before our last class to write a reflective entry that "shows" us your individual journey and how talking, reading with and observing your colleagues has impacted the changes you have made and also to set yourself a goal for where you plan to go next. This entry will be your longest entry of the year and it should take you the next few weeks to complete. I would also suggest that you write it on word and then copy and paste it so that you don't lose it!

Here are some quotes that you might consider in thinking about your journey...you do not have to respond to them, I just thought they might inspire you along the way!

"The language of education, if it is to be an invitation to reflection and culture creating, cannot be the so-called uncontaminated language of fact and 'objectivity'. It must express stance and must invite counter-stance, and in the process leave place for reflection, for meta-cognition. It is this that permits one to reach higher ground, this process of objectifying in language or image what one has thought and then turning around and re-considering it"Jerome Bruner

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."- Marcel Proust

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." Carl Rogers

“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn - and change” Carl Rogers

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." Confucius

Observations...

Please post your observation here...feel free to respond to one another.

Change...

Please read and respond to the following....

"In reality 'learning' and 'change' are synonymous. Change is not an issue if it makes sense to and is 'owned' by those involved. An appreciation that change is a continual process, involving confusion and difficulty, is vital for future learners. 'It is not change that kills it is the transitions'."