Activity 3: Contribution of Teacher Inquiry Topics to my Communities of Practice
Hi there Very late reflection entry for the course - apologies for that. Community of Practise (CoP) isn't rocket science is it! All of us that choose to be involved in a learning opportunity, be it short or longer term, do so because we want to receive some benefit or value from it. This might be an immediate gain in knowledge, a clarification or further understanding. For people to properly commit to a long term group there has to be clear shared goals and to receive valuable participation from the group there needs to be a common belief that as individuals we will gain something and that the group will become stronger and more valuable as time progresses. I like the growing the garden analogy as a simple explanation and the true realisation that no matter how accepting the group might be to each other and their contributions there will be a variance in the types of participation from the individuals and that facilitators of PD in particular need to expect, allow and accep...