{"id":22,"date":"2015-10-20T00:21:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T00:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/?p=22"},"modified":"2015-10-20T00:21:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T00:21:48","slug":"cohort-21-is-247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/2015\/10\/20\/cohort-21-is-247\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohort 21 is 24\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after the first Face-2-Face of Cohort 21 Season 4 and my mind is still spinning. \u00a0I cannot stop thinking of new ideas and positive changes at all hours of the day (and night). \u00a0I am asking myself questions I haven&#8217;t dared to ask in a while and I can already feel excitement at thinking this is going to make a big positive difference to my practice and my students&#8217; success.<\/p>\n<p>Within 48 hours I&#8217;ve pretty much become a Twitter addict, I&#8217;ve tried new technology in the classroom (Kahoot was a major success), I&#8217;ve downloaded new education apps to try and contemplated an action plan that I feel will influence my students, my colleagues and the wider school community.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m enjoying most is the inspiration to push myself. \u00a0The adrenaline rush of feeling vulnerable, trying new things and reflecting on the outcome.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/files\/2015\/10\/Comfort-Zone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23\" src=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/files\/2015\/10\/Comfort-Zone-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"Comfort Zone\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/files\/2015\/10\/Comfort-Zone-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/files\/2015\/10\/Comfort-Zone.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 960px) 75vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a>(http:\/\/weheartit.com\/entry\/group\/298736)<\/p>\n<p>My first steps to vulnerability and the good that has\u00a0come from feeling uncomfortable:<br \/>\n<em>1) \u00a0Writing this blog<\/em> &#8211; definitely a new thing for me and a challenge because I&#8217;m quite shy. \u00a0I&#8217;m putting myself out there (quite literally in the wilds of the internet), with the hope of getting something good back.<br \/>\n<em>2) \u00a0Watching a video of myself teaching<\/em> &#8211; I avoided watching the video for four days, fearing my own criticism. \u00a0I&#8217;m always hardest on myself. \u00a0The amazing thing is that, even before watching the video, I already became much more reflective &#8211; almost imagining what <em>every<\/em> lesson would look like on replay. It has also helped me to focus on what I want to improve most and has informed my thoughts concerning my action plan.<\/p>\n<p>With all this new found vulnerability, I&#8217;m taking a time out as I write this. \u00a0I am currently firmly in my comfort zone, cup of tea in hand and slippers on my feet, recharging for another exciting teaching day tomorrow where I can keep trying new things!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days after the first Face-2-Face of Cohort 21 Season 4 and my mind is still spinning. \u00a0I cannot stop thinking of new ideas and positive changes at all hours of the day (and night). \u00a0I am asking myself questions I haven&#8217;t dared to ask in a while and I can already feel excitement at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/2015\/10\/20\/cohort-21-is-247\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cohort 21 is 24\/7&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions","tag-face-2-face","tag-impressions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/heatherrhind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}