If you are like many people you have probably caught at least a little bit of the football World Cup in Russia over the last few weeks.
Since, for a good portion of this year’s event, I was often in the company of soccer mad colleagues, I watched a bit more than I might usually do. I was struck by the importance of half time. Yes, it was an important break so that tired bodies get some rest and treatment, but I noticed it was also a significant time strategically. This half time break meant that the other team had been more fully assessed, strengths and weaknesses could be reviewed, tactics modified and even substitutions made. Many games were won because of the half time changes that were introduced making half-time an important reflective practice opportunity.
If you weren’t watching the football you were probably keeping an eye on what was happening on the other side of the world deep within a complicated cave system in Thailand. What an amazing rescue! In addition to experiencing the relief and elation when the rescue succeeded, I was struck by comments by leaders in the rescue team about how much they were able to refine and improve the rescue process as they went along. The second and third rescue operations were faster and more efficient, as a result of what had been learned in earlier attempts. In this case the first time rescue and the second time rescue were important reflective practice opportunities that enabled the third rescue to be even better than the earlier attempts, despite the changing weather and cave related circumstances that created more challenges.
So here we are at the end of ‘half time’ in the school year and I wonder what different tactics might be worth putting in place in the second half of the year? Of course reflections like these need to lead to actions. Football teams went out and played the second half putting into action their revised tactics. Dive rescue teams went back for second and third rescue operations streamlining procedures to be more effective. Schools have reflected and are putting their ideas into play for the second half of the year.
It is however, a helpful reminder that while reflection and review is critically important, it is acting on the learning from that reflection that changes the game here at SSP.
ASIP 2018 |
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To improve Literacy results across 3 year old Kindy to Year 6 by the end of Term 3. |
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By the end of Term 2 2018 we will have established a Sustainability Centre at the school. |
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By the end of Term 4, there will be a Positive Learning Framework fully implemented at SSP. |
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To develop a school wide approach for the delivery of a weekly staff and student focus in Christian Meditation by the end of Semester 1. |
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