So it has been just over a year since I started blooging as a teacher, reflecting on my journey with education. It has been a great year! From overseas trips to NZ and the US on the ACCE study tour to all of my staff completing their ICDL to seeing some great stuff happening in the classroom to particpating in an ICT development network with the Victorian Christian Schools. It has been busy and hectic and an incredible learning curve. In that time I have learnt about the value of a personal learning network, the value of good pedagodgy (how it is not just about the technology), all sorts of technological things (including geocaching!) and how adults learn and the what is the uptake for changing the way teachers teach!

Looking back over my blog it seems to be a very ecclectic mix of posts, from reflections on what I am doing, to conference sessions I have attended, to things I have done on holidays to information pages for Wild Wednesday Workshops at my school. Which really does reflect the wide variety of things that I have learnt and done over the past 12 months.

So what will the next 12 months look like? Who knows but this is what I am going to challenge myself to do

• Put in a paper to be considered to present at a conference (although I am not entirely sure what in)
• Create an onlilne presence to collate all the good resources and ideas that I come across
• Really examine my teaching and student learning and see whaat I can change given the restriction of teaching a final year subject with high stakes assessment
• Work how to better inspire teachers to change their pedagodgy at my school

I wont write too long a list as I don’t want to be unrealistic given I only work two days a week!

Anyway to finish I am including a clip of Susan Boyle from Britains got talent singing I dreamed a dream from Les Miserables (My favourite song from my favourite musical) she just goes to show you never know what talent lies beneth the surface. Impartant to remember as a teacher and as a person!

Britains Got Talent 2009 – Susan Boyle