This document contains reflections from a teacher's professional development experience. It includes thoughts on working in groups, making time for daily reflection, gaining new perspectives from colleagues, and recognizing that students know best how they learn. The teacher realized they need to respect each student's learning process. Reflections also touch on pushing outside one's comfort zone and how great things can happen when doing so. Change is portrayed as a process, not an event, and the teacher is trying to translate what they are learning to their own classroom practice.

1. Reflections
a collection of thoughts and quotes

3. Salient Points

4. I work best in groups
when...

5. Make time for reflection
in my daily schedule,
perhaps a gratitude
journal.

6. When it is our own
project or lesson, we
see it as if it were just
inches away from our
face. But when the
others in the Critical
Friends Group looked
at the same project,
they could see it at
arm’s length.
~Drew

7. Proof that it feels like I've been at #klingsi10 4ever, in a
blog post I just wrote "in the first few weeks" and we've
only been here 7 days

8. So today I didn’t really learn the 49 ways to be a better
teacher, but I sure learned that I need to be cognizant of
honoring my own students as learners and to respect the fact
that they may know more about how they learn best than I do.

10. Not so sure I’m the extrovert I thought I was

11. squares with my beliefs

12. It shouldn't be a privilege to
access the door of your own
mind ~Teacher Liz

13. Change is a process, not an event. ~PRK

14. Looking at the world
through a diversity lens.

15. 1% rule...change things1% at week so it adds up.
~Chef Gary

17. Still Circling

18. Trying to figure out how to translate what I am doing here at
#klingsi10 so it would work at my school.

19. How do I make my
classroom a safe place
that honors everyone?

20. How can I affect change in my school
without making too many waves?

21. How can our department all
move in the same direction
without sacrificing each
teacher’s individuality?

22. I am feeling way outside of my
comfort zone, but I am plowing
through.

23. Whenever I am
pushed out of my
comfort zone,
great things
happen.

24. I am ready for great things
to happen.

25. Photo Credits
• Boat Reflection by Jesper Hauge
• Introvert & Extrovert Narcicism by alphadesigner
• Mothers Meeting by Skinnyde
• A course for nowhere by Wet Sun
• Soul Searching by gaspi*yg
• Cliff Jumping by Dennis Barnes
• Honk!!! Honk!!! Honk!!! by Denis Collette!!! All photos licensed
•
under
Untitled by miss_butterfly
• one percent by The Truth Abou
• Happy Mother’s Day by Mr Clean 1982 Creative Commons
• Big Magic - Grosser Zamber by Maggi_94
• The World Inside the Lens by dirkmvp41
• Rainbow by Jakerone
• The Reason for not Having a School Uniform by theirhistory
• School by Jason Tromm
• Board Meeting by CW Ye
• Red Triangle by xcode
• Little Green Squares by Mister V
• Squared Blue Circle by zen