All students, no matter their age, cycle through stages of learning. During my MA, I was introduced to the Competence Cycles. I think they\u2019re pretty neat, so I\u2019ve included a brief description below.<\/p>\n
Most learners begin in the \u2018Unconscious Incompetence<\/strong>\u2019 stage. This is where they don\u2019t know what they don\u2019t know. Ignorance is bliss? Next it\u2019s \u2018Conscious Incompetence<\/strong>.\u2019 This is where you start to figure out what you don\u2019t know. Stage 3 is \u2018Conscious Competence<\/strong>.\u2019 That\u2019s a pretty nice place to be. You know what you know and you\u2019re competent at it. Finally, there\u2019s stage 4: \u2018Unconscious Competence.<\/strong>\u2019 This is where you\u2019re so competent, you don\u2019t even need to think about it anymore.<\/p>\n You might wonder why I\u2019ve brought this up. At the\u00a0Cohort21<\/a>‘s 3rd Face to Face session, it’s been a great experience to\u00a0think deeply about my action research question :\u00a0“How can I best facilitate a rich, professional learning culture for faculty, to improve student learning at RLC?”<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019d never really thought about the \u2018problem\u2019 leading to my action research, and it struck me that in terms of best practice, a lot of the time I, and many other teachers and administrators, just don\u2019t know what we don\u2019t know. Don\u2019t get me wrong. We\u2019re not incompetent! Far from that! As I mentioned in my previous post, we\u2019ve made a lot of progress in the past 2 years. Cohort21 has been a great way learn more about what\u2019s out there and theories about integrating tech into education. We all have the potential to be even more competent, but if we don\u2019t know what we don\u2019t\u2019 know, it\u2019s hard to get there. I’d like to help change that.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>That\u2019s what my action plan is really all about.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a01.\u00a0Immediate Next Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n – set up a timeline to break things down into manageable chunks (meet with Headmaster, sketch out a 3 month, 6 month, 1, 3 and 5 year plan)<\/p>\n – connect with Garth and Justin and Les and Joe Smith regarding what they’ve done and are doing in their schools<\/p>\n – create a survey which solicits feedback from teachers on PD preferences<\/p>\n – do some research on PLN’s<\/p>\n \u00a02.When will I publish next?<\/strong><\/p>\n – I will publish again by March Break<\/p>\n \u00a03.\u00a0How will I present my findings?<\/strong><\/p>\n – I\u2019m not exactly sure on this one yet. Probably some sort of Prezi\/Powerpoint<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All students, no matter their age, cycle through stages of learning. During my MA, I was introduced to the Competence Cycles. I think they\u2019re pretty neat, so I\u2019ve included a brief description below. Most learners begin in the \u2018Unconscious Incompetence\u2019 stage. This is where they don\u2019t know what they don\u2019t know. Ignorance is bliss? Next … Continue reading “Cycling through Competence”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/megwallace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}