Have been thinking lately about how I have been able to be successful in some of my resolutions and not so successful in other.
I have almost successfully managed to complete the full #29daysofwriting despite repeatedly finding it difficult to find a topic to write about each day. Somehow I have managed to overcome the difficulties and progress onwards.
I managed to complete #teacher5adaysketch while also working on #29daysofwriting. Somehow I managed to find the time and motivation.
In the above cases it wasn’t my ability that was trying to stop me or hinder my progress however I must admit I am neither an author or an artist. In both cases it was motivation and the difficulty level of the task in hand that were the hindering factors.
Overcoming these involved my own intrinsic motivation, my “want” to complete the tasks in hand. I felt it was important that I completed the tasks and I saw the purpose and reason behind the tasks in hand. I also could see the benefits of completing the tasks. This meant that when faced with difficulties I still retained the motivation to move forwards.
I also had extrinsic support in the form of comments and suggestions from people with the educational social media sphere. They helped keep my motivation up and helped make sure that I had ideas for moving forward. There was also the social aspect of discussion and also some joking which further made the tasks in hand more pleasant to undertake and more engaging.
The experience of #29daysofwriting has been very positive although I will write more on that tomorrow as my last posting. The key thing I see is how can we make more our in-house CPD in this format. If we could then I suspect such CPD would be significantly more effective and successful. TeachMeets are one way however they are limited in that they take place after school including on weekends and therefore are unlikely to engage the majority of staff. We need to achieve professional learning with all staff across all CPD events.
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