Habit

While addressing the once again dwindling blog posts for reflections in the department yesterday, some teachers find it difficult to keep up with the weekly reflections, reasoning with the usual concerns that there is no time to do this, and that they are not good in writing, etc, etc.

Come on. How many times do we have to do this? Initially, reflections were done on paper over 10 min during staff time, then there were concerns over how such information can be shared laterally, so after numerous reviews and adjustments, we have finally evolved to tap on the strength of the blog to do this.

There is nothing wrong with using this as a tool for reflection and we are definitely not going back.

Man is a creature of habit and some things just need perseverance to set in. We will just keep doing this until the habit stays. For greater transparency, reflection submissions per teacher will be charted on a termly basis and the information will be shared within the department. This also encourages and gives clear credit to our colleagues who have been contributing consistently.