Mind Lab Karen Duligall

T his week I discuss the ethical issues that occurred during the Taking Action phase of the Spiral of  Inquiry (Kaser & Halbert. 2017) using Rolfe’s Model of Reflection. S tep 1 - W hat W hen putting together the  Action Plan  a number of ethical issues were identified but a new one popped up involving the need to carry out baseline testing. W hilst there is no dispute that testing was required, normally I would test during week 3 once I had established class routines and developed relationships with my students. H owever, I needed the data much sooner. In my last blog post , I talked about the importance of Whanaungatanga - Building relationships - with whanau, and students. S tep 2 - S o W hat U sing Ehrich’s (2011) ethical decision-making framework I needed to consider competing forces. These fell within the Professional Ethics section - the need to develop relationships with my students, to teach them routines and foundations such as growth...

Flipped preparation (required): First take a look at some of these ideas on 'Self Assessing Key Competencies in Leadership' pdf (in Related Media below) about how the key competences relate to leadership. Then self assess your 5 Key Competencies in your teaching and leadership practice. What are your strengths and weaknesses? You can do this in the format of your choice, just bring the self reflections with you to Week 2 session. As a leader in my classroom I need to provide an environment in which the students can develop their KCs. Creating conditions for KCs - making sure that activities in class have KC components to them - such as the Participating and Contributing aspect of our current inquiry which includes the SVA part and hopefully will help other be more prepared for earthquakes. Leading change - during CRT and team meetings encouraging other teachers within the team to embrace the KC aspect. The KCs come through the learner pathway, so encouraging...