PRACTICE- Changes in Practice The inspirational quote from the last week of my Mindlab journey is worth mentioning here, “Reflection as a slogan for educational reform also recognises that the process of learning to teach continues throughout a teacher’s entire career, a recognition that no matter what we do in our teacher education programmes, and no matter how well we do them, at best, we can only prepare teachers to begin teaching.” (Carlgren. et al, 1994). Indeed the last 32 weeks has been an exciting journey to me, both personally and professionally. Some of the topics have been very useful and applicable to my field of practice, while the others were interesting and familiar. This course have given me a chance to ponder of the philosophical and theoretical groundings to my practice in more than one ways. Applying the 21 st century rubric to all that I did in this year in my teaching has been rewarding. The implementation of Self-Regulated Learning, Digital and collabo
PRACTICE - Professional Context - Crossing Boundaries It is interesting to come across this part of the assessment in week 31, which I happened to research in 2007 with my prior experiences of working with a Danish Educational research and Consultant group in 2004. I presented and research paper proposing a curriculum integration in visual arts. My research looked at integrating various disciplines in Art, like Drama, Music, Painting, Design, Technology, Photography and the Media studies (Figure 1) just like the way Ross Institute integrated their learning into an open spiral. However, I see a possibility to extend this integration into connecting with Social Studies, History, English and science (Figure2). I am glad that New Zealand is beginning to consider this long pending research into the current learning system. The issues that may be challenging for this to happen is the timetable of a school. Not many schools are willing to risk the change and try a new timetable tha