{"id":1,"date":"2021-10-08T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cohort21.com\/template\/?p=1"},"modified":"2021-11-18T12:36:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T17:36:01","slug":"what-is-going-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jeffadams\/2021\/10\/08\/what-is-going-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Urgent vs Important – Reflections on the return to school"},"content":{"rendered":"

Urgent vs Important<\/strong>
\nWhat happens when they are both? Or which one takes hold of you on a given day? For myself, at the centre of this is most likely, anything to do with my students – they are always important and at times urgent as well. So the matrix points us to DO. As an educator, to delegate is a tricky one since I’m not sure who that would be? Balancing that with your own family becomes a tricky matrix but a necessary one. At this point in time I’m also writing my research proposal for my PhD exploring educators involvement in a collaborative interdisciplinary course and any influence it may have on their teaching practice. Using a Practitioner Inquiry lens the hope is to uncover what influences may occur and\/or how to improve on our pedagogy of teaching and learning. So time, while always a limitation for educators, is an area I was looking to reflect on more deeply and one of the reasons to join Cohort 21. I was also encouraged by past work I had observed (in my own school and others), and the tight knit group of people that grew out of their time together. So to come full circle, I feel that Urgent vs Important fluctuates or ebbs and flows depending on many factors. This will be something I hope to continue to reflect on as we move forward.<\/p>\n

Pedagogy & Wellbeing Grades 7-12<\/strong>
\nOver the past year or so, a group of educators at our school have been designing and implementing a new course called Digital Wisdom. I chose this strand as it matches some of our goals for this course. Digital Wisdom is part of Havergal\u2019s Strategic Direction 2020+: Future-Proofing the Next Generation<\/a>, specifically developing students\u2019 skills and strategies in navigating the digital world we all inhabit.<\/p>\n

The framework of concepts and experiences for this course were co-constructed with many educators from different subject areas and grades, throughout the Junior and Upper schools \u2013\u00a0truly an interdisciplinary collaboration.\u00a0The course will focus on identity building, perspective taking and the challenges and opportunities our students experience in person and in the digital spaces in which they engage. It integrates elements of blended learning, as well as our wellbeing and DEI programs. This strand explores pedagogies, assessment strategies and learning tools that can support student wellbeing and academics so it seemed to be the most logical fit for this course. It also will place us within a group of educators who can lend a critical eye to our work and lots of opportunities for learning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Urgent vs Important What happens when they are both? Or which one takes hold of you on a given day? For myself, at the centre of this is most likely, anything to do with my students – they are always important and at times urgent as well. So the matrix points us to DO. As…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":75,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-face-2-face-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jeffadams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jeffadams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jeffadams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jeffadams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jeffadams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jeffadams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jeffadams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jeffadams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jeffadams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jeffadams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/jeffadams\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}