It is the eve of my profiling assessment. I am not sure I am ready for this - how will I remember all the different behaviours I am supposed to be recording? More importantly, will I be able to give some meaningful and useful feedback to the Teachers I profile? Let's see if I can get some thoughts about all this down on 'paper'.
It is important that the Teachers do find the process of use - a way of reflecting on teaching practice and a doorway to discussing pedagogy. We have so few opportunities to do this sort of thing as a profession. I want it to work. I hope it will be a way to help people become better Teachers, and to confirm what they are doing right. I hope it will also make it easier to ask for ideas when a Teacher has a new challenge that seems insurmountable. In particular, I would like Teachers to be able to discuss strategies for behaviour management whenever necessary. I don't know any TAFE Teachers who have huge problems with behaviour management except when they have classes largely made up of high school students. Maybe I will discover that this impression is not quite correct.
It's going to be interesting, either way it turns out.
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Susan, I feel confident that the process will work. As you said, it's "a doorway to discussing pedagogy". It's great that teachers are willing to open the door. The process will grow and evolve and the kinds of feedback that are meaningful and useful to teachers will emerge.
Thanks, Martha. After the profiling session was over, I was quietly confident that it wwould be of use to the Teacher I observed. I am yet to give her feedback and she seems keen to hear it, so thus far it is all good!
Onwards and upwards.
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