Time to Reflect

I am midway through the final week of the second course of my master's degree plan.  This week we were given the opportunity to reflect back on the highlights of this course in several different domains  Since this is my blog I want to share the greatest insight that I have taken from these past few weeks concerning blogging. 

This course provided me with my first experience in blogging and I very much enjoyed it.  There are many positives in blogging: I enjoy the comments from my professional peers as well as the opportunity to post my ideas and thoughts, however it is as a self reflective tool that my blog is most valuable to me.  The importance of this to me is best stated by Dana as (and yes I am a Harry Potter fan): 

   “If you (or any of the students or teachers in your building) are Harry Potter fans, you will recall that the wise teacher and headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, has the ability to extract thoughts and recollections of events from his head and place them in a “pensieve.”  At critical times in the Harry Potter stories, Albus enters the pensieve, sometimes with Harry, to explore these old memories and thoughts and gains new insights with each visit.  Journaling or blogging can serve as your personal pensieve to capture and store your thoughts and recollections safely so you can share them with teaching colleagues or other administrators and return to them at various times in the evolution of your inquiry, gaining new and deeper insights with each visit.” (2009. p. 88)    

While there are many positive aspects to blogging this reflective journaling aspect has been the highlight to me.

Resources

Dana, Nancy Fichtman (2009). Leading with Passion and Knowledge: The Principal as Action Researcher. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.