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In this class Professor Marie Clarke led us to think about the learning environment from our own background experience. She guided us to know the elements which are important and required to design a learning environment such as curriculum, school culture, and challenges. Finally, she also asked us, “where do we see ourselves in this context”?

This session helped me to look at the holistic approach to our learning activities and the gap between learning objectives and learning outcomes.

The key point which I carry with me is, “I need to be a catalyst to design a conducive learning environment.

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Our focus in this class was on Academic writing where the individual selects the topic and frames a research question and solution. This must be developed with references from scholarly articles. In connection with that there were two extracts of Student A and B were given as an example to analyze the standard in academic writing.

The video clip clearly explains the Literature Review which helps to assess and identify the articles needed for the research.

This session increased my knowledge of the importance of reading journal articles and created interest to improve my academic writing. This has also given me the idea that after completion of the article, reading aloud, and checking the needed corrections are important to improvise academic writing.

The key factor I picked up was the importance of the Literature Review.

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In this week’s session, our Professor Marie Clarke quoted the view of various authors on Reflective Practice. This is an essential action to reflect on the various aspects such as acquired knowledge, learning environment, and relationship. In particular, this helps in summarising our learning and evaluating.

I feel important that the Reflective Practice will guide me to find myself where I am and explore the way forward.

The key point is that Reflective Practice is necessary for the position of leading and mentoring.

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In today’s session of leading learning, we were given background knowledge of the traditional type of leadership with references. We were asked to reflect on a few questions which made us understand hierarchical leadership and it was very interesting that our responses of how we would have made things differently. Then the topic was built up with the shared type of leadership and connected to the educational context. We were also introduced to leadership literature, follower literature, and the ownership of learning from the perspective of education.

This session increased my knowledge of the importance of followership, the relationship between leadership, and the impacts due to societal changes.

This session changed my view that I need to look at myself in the position of a leader and a follower.

The key point I take is that always I ought to focus on the capacity to nurture others and bring out the best.

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Identity, values and leading learning - 1

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Identity, values and leading learning - 1

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At the beginning part of the fifth session, we were asked to share our understanding of the previous class. Professor Marie told us to recollect our previous knowledge of traditional schools of philosophy and she introduced the topic of Teacher Identity, as she asked us to put down our thoughts on Identity. This session was mostly interactive.

As I reflected, I found that our teaching is based on Essentialism because we use the lecture method of teaching to acquire skills, the learning environment is according to the task and the assessment is with objective and subjective questions.

It helped me to reflect in my context that, the teacher’s identity is mostly based on the compulsion of how much the teacher can produce good results. On the contrary, we fail to see the forming of the person. It’s a built-up system in Tamil Nadu.

The key point which I pick up is that critical incidents make the person reflect and act appropriately.

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Identity, values and leading learning - 2

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Identity, values and leading learning - 2

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This session was the continuation of the previous class. Our Professor explained Teacher professional identity, the impacts of teacher emotions, and the influences on teachers from outer forces. We had a sharing on teachers’ identity and its various influences in and out of the school system.

This session helped me to reflect on the class teachers’ perspective and their adaptivity towards the changing attitude of the students and the system of education.

As a leader of the institute, I foresee the importance that the teachers ought to be supported by training to improvise professionally and emotionally.

The key point which I carry with me (my context) is that ‘Emotional health is very much important to carry out the effective teaching profession’.