Reflective journal

The history of a school can play a large part of developing a culture by which the school is recognised. My school has traditions that make it unique. The reason this changes is because staff change, management change, students change, and they bring new ideas, new or different values   Werner (2015) discusses climate and culture and how new people bring their feelings and beliefs, but do they recognise the culture and climate of the school? Should they recognise it or do we continue to develop and change the culture and climate to reflect the people within the school?   Socio-economic factors: Maeroa is a decile 3 with a community aged between 15 and 64 years old (70%).   The Ministry of Education (MOE) (2017), states that deciles are a measure of the socio-economic position of a school’s student community relative to other schools throughout New Zealand.   According to Gargiulo, 2014; P5), “A student from a lower socio-economic status group is le...

My Community of Practice - Week 25 If I had initially asked myself what my communities of practice were, I would have listed the working groups I am involved in as part of my work within my school. I am a Lead Teacher, responsible for 3 other teachers, I am working in   a MLE with 1 other teacher, and I am a classroom teacher responsible for 30 students in my class, 60 across our hub, and 120 across our team. Are these a community of practice? I have always belonged, or felt I belonged, to a range of groups, leadership, community or collegial. These are groups that come together for a purpose on a regular basis. Meeting times are planned, and there is mostly an agenda to guide the discussion or meeting purpose. The main purpose of these meetings is to carry out the shared vision of our school to support the development, and retention, of our culture of teaching and learning. Any person can be present in these communities but there needs to be the interaction to become a par...