The document discusses the author's journey of reflective practice in teaching, emphasizing the need to challenge traditional pedagogies inherited from their profession. It highlights the importance of self-awareness and adapting to the 21st-century educational landscape while recognizing the complexities of curriculum and school culture. Through daily reflections, the author navigates their development from a conservative teaching approach to one that is proactive and informed by theory.

1. Moving my own goal postsAshley CaseyUniversity of BedfordshireDcysiv Moment's Flickr photostream

2. About me

3. Teacherellenmac11’s Flickr photostream

4. Geri-Jean’s Flickr photostream

5. TeacherTeacher Educator

6. AuthorAuthorGeri-Jean’s Flickr photostream

7. Reflective Practitioner

8. Journal WriterNG71’s Flickr photostream

9. BLOGGER

10. Tweeter

11. My Reflective aim

12. I sought to change, or at least challenge, the underlying theory of teaching that I inherited from my profession. Trevira’s Flickr photostream

13. A brief History

14. We learn because we do and subsequently undergo the consequences of our doing.Biesta (2007, p.14)Omar Junior’s Flickr photostream

15. noqontrol’s Flickr photostreamthe complex processes I underwent as I set about making pedagogical and curricular changes in my teaching.

16. teaching in physical education is limited to instruction in technique for the betterment of inter-school sport.Peter Edmund’s Flickr photostream

17. the dominant pedagogy hasn’t noticeably changed for half a century (Kirk, 2010) UNO Criss Library’s Flickr photostream

18. “dominant competitive, aggressive, not-too-bright individual… (the) companionable ‘man (sic) of action’, but not someone with whom to engage in professional dialogue”Whitehead & Hendry (1976, p.75)RinkRatz's Flickr photostream

19. reflective practice has had little to do with teachers’ continued professional development.

20. dgray_xplane’sFlickr photostreamthat innocence in teaching meant that, as teachers, we believed that we knew what we are doing and how we were affecting our pupils (Brookfield, 1995)

21. Old Shoe Woman’s Flickr photostreampractice is lagging well behind the needs of the 21st Century (Lawson, 2009).

22. Phantom_snapper'sFlickr photostreamIt is through the process of knowing ourselves that the gap between our personal theories and personal practice is noticed.

23. As a ‘man of action’ I finally began to develop my personal knowledge and understanding of my own practices.Tinker*Tailor's Flickr photostream

24. I adopted a non-traditional approach to teaching and learning as a result of my self-reflections.

25. alexhd57's Flickr photostreamThrough the ‘stories’ of a reflection diary that I wrote daily for nearly two years I experienced a number of “‘aha’ moments of ‘oh, I see’ (Bolton, 2005, p. xv).

26. Lady-bug's Flickr photostreamThe idea is that of an educational science in which every classroom is a laboratory, each teacher a member of the scientific community.Stenhouse (1977, p. 142)Research functions not as a distraction from practice but as a development of it.Schön (1983, p. ix)

27. Smart Went Crazy.'sFlickr photostreamMy classrooms were private places where the only valued contributions were mine

28. Botrash‘sFlickr photostreamBoard of Education (1902)The teacher should carry a staff, a barbell, or dumb-bells, according to the instruction which the class is receiving; he should teach as much as possible by illustration; and he will be careful, in order to stimulate the intelligence and interest of the children, to explain clearly, in simple terms, the reason for every movement and formation.

29. Spyros_Tav‘sFlickr photostreamBy replacing the barbell with a rugby ball this image of didactic delivery became a familiar and significant part of my education

30. Hulikal’sFlickr photostreamthe selective traditions of curriculum construction and pedagogical practices(Lingard, 2007, p. 246)

31. I was able to employ reflective practice to examine the ways in which I taught

32. I was most definitely one of those teachers who “worked hard for continuity without knowing it, in the sense that [I was] frightfully conservative, never made a move and was resistant to change”(Briault, 1974, p. 6).idogu’sFlickr photostream

33. My dominant voice

34. I felt that I had learnt some significant lessons about the type of teacher that I wanted to be and was a good way towards achieving this goal.

35. Strep72’s Flickr photostreamI had spoken an incredible 2265wordson115separate occasions in a lesson lasting27 minsand46sec.

36. reflection

37. the willingness of the practitioner to do something ‘outside the box’ within the context in which they teachSteveFE’s Flickr photostream

38. LocationLocationLocation

39. the differences in schools are less significant than the similarities they have with other schools (Kirk, 2010)

40. The curriculum is a noticeable way through which the academic demands of the school are managed

41. Bob merco’s Flickr photostreamThere are aspects of school life thatpupils teachers must master

42. These institutional demands require staff and pupils to adopt coping strategies.Mina Sharif's Flickr photostream

43. It’s when you see the curriculum in action that the notion of traditional comes home to roost: certainly from the physical education perspectiveMiami U. Libraries – Digital Collection’s Flickr photostream

44. A school’s culture is based upon school norms: “shared beliefs, values, principles, and assumptions that guide patterns of behaviour.”Rovegno and Bandhauer (1997, p. 401)Joseph_2166’s Flickr photostream

45. Shook Photos’s Flickr photostreamAs seen from the road, the school sits behind several acres of well-maintained fields, cut short to allow the traditional English sports to be played on its not particularly hallowed ground.

46. lovedaylemoin’s Flickr photostreamThe school clings to its traditions, although the pupils constantly strive to achieve individuality in the way they wear their ties and blazers.

47. A lesson influenced by time. They were late for a 35 minute lesson, cutting down our working time to 16 minutes.Athletics Unit Diary(Erik)’s Flickr photostream

48. frequentwearisomeannoyed

49. The difference between what teachers feel that they could achieve and what they actually ‘pull off’ (Lawson, 1993).

50. Refelection

51. soccerrach88's Flickr photostreamI needed to find new ways of dealing with the traditions of the school and of education.

52. Relocating myself

53. Much of the change in my pedagogy had been about understanding my own teaching by understanding “the curriculum of [my] students” (Connelly & Clandinin, 1988, p. 31)ellie,!'sFlickr photostream

54. “rapid socialisation into a redundant occupational culture and the obsolete practices it sustains” Elliott (1991, p. 7).abluedude'sFlickr photostream

55. My way out of this institutional socialisation was to explore alternatives to the ‘infallible expert model.’Elliott (1991)

56. Reflection as the glue to theoretically-informed practiceSam Catchesides''sFlickr photostream

57. I started thinking less about the theory of the approaches per se and more about the ways of using them effectively and appropriately in my teaching.

58. I had a concomitant ‘quality control system’ from my academic colleagues, my regular reading of theory and my reflective practices.{tnarik‘sFlickr photostream

59. an understanding greater than that expected of both a teacher and an academic,But more profoundly perhaps for a “not-too-bright individual” Whitehead and Hendry (1976, p.75).

60. This ability to reflectively apply theory to practice allowed me to enhance the teaching, learning and content processes of the school and its participants.

61. My teaching has taken a proactive, reflective journey alongside my evolving personal theory.

62. Positively interdependent participants with shared goalNew pitch?: New goals to move{ sheila }‘s Flickr photostream

63. Teacherellenmac11’s Flickr photostream

64. TeacherTeacher Educator

65. I continue to de-privatisemy classrooms,locating my reflections, my practice and Iwithin my new institution and within the theories that I read and writebuddista'sFlickr photostream

66. Thank you