1. Professional Practice #1 Embracing Mess

2. Introductions

3. Revel in Uncertainty What are your ambitions? Where are your conflicts, your hesitancies?

4. Experience as Data More specifically your experience as data.

5. Provocations They are everywhere - use them all; let them interact; let themes develop

6. Reading Is Important But this isn’t a literature review: Read for purpose - to provoke thinking and enable more sophisticated interpretations

7. Putting reading to use You have read and engaged with the article on parents evenings. Find things to be interested in… how will you use reading to extend the analysis of experiences ?

8. Putting Theory to Work What interested you in this article? Does it provoke any broader thinking about practice?

9. Embracing Mess Lead lecture LT 4

10. Reflections on Experience and Learning (REAL) A Process which runs through your Initial Teacher Training

11. In groups explore the episodes which have formed part of the first refletions about your experiences in school – Pick out the key points and explain themes and tensions – why did you choose these ?

12. Core Process ‘Diary’ moments of thoughtfulness about practice A couple of entries a week - use the writing as an opportunity to generate understanding Talk with your mentor about your writing

13. Journal Entry Observation Journal Entry Uni Session Journal Entry Observation Journal Entry Reading Journal Entry Feedback The REAL as Process

14. Putting Theory to Work The test of reading is whether it gives you new language and new concepts to take your own thinking one step further This is what we’re looking for!

15. Putting Theory to Work How can you reinterpret the lecture data using it? Can you revisit any of your stimuli stories in relation to it?

16. UndergraduatePostgraduate Reading lists Immersion in a ‘field’ Proving understanding Driven by emerging interest Participation in a ‘field’ Dialogue with existing understandings

17. We want to see positive aspirations But we need to get beyond this to M-Levelness: ✦ Sustain a rational position (offer a persuasive, articulated argument)

18. ✦ Account for basis and origin (what have been the key influences on your position. ✦ Demonstrate criticality (recognise tensions and contradictions in your position).

19. Developing your first few reflections Work together in pairs or threes to explore the substance of your pre- course task, and the ways in which this can be developed and add to your REAL.

20. Onwards! 18th September - Becoming an Education Professional 27th November - Inclusion 15th January - Behaviour Management 15th March - Games Based Learning / Cross Curricularity 26th April – Issues in assessment