Professional Development in Connected Leadership Continues

The first time I was pushed to blog was when I was taking my AQ in Technology Integration in Instruction back in 2017. I have not done a very good job of keeping up with it. My original vision for my blog was that it would act as a digital portfolio of the things I was doing and thinking about in education, specifically related to digital technologies in education. 

In 2018 I was busy completing my Religion Parts 2 and 3 in order to qualify for the Principal Qualification Part 1 (PQP1) course. I was pleasantly surprised on the first day of the course to find out that there was a Connected Leadership Module component for both Part 1 and Part 2. After finishing my Specialist in Technology Integration in Instruction I thought my Professional Development would have to be self driven. I am so happy to continue my learning journey with my course instructors Mark Santandrea, Lou Paonessa, Peter Prochilo and my peers. 

I will work diligently this semester, during the PQP2 course to better maintain this blog. 

In one of the online modules I worked on, I watched this video by Tony Wagner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzgvvhSTujs&index=4&list=PLiTNrsZ4ZfYszMHK6OYuGDt_tEmzvEMPp.  What an incredibly inspiring video. It had me really questioning a lot of the ways that we mindlessly do things in schools with our students. It had me wondering about whether some of my own teaching practices had any educational value. For instance, George Couros gives the example in his blog about how we test students on how to write a newspaper report, even though there has been a decline in newspaper article reading over the years and how we do not test for embedding related links or other media and materials even though this is more akin to the way we typically consume news related material. We really should consider changing how we administer our standardized tests. They hold little value if they are not reflective of the types of skills students need to demonstrate.



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