Communicating Learning

I don’t know what it is about “reports” or “communicating learning” but whenever this rears its (ugly) head I seem to go into headless chicken mode and get all panicy about it.

Something that springs to mind is a session we had with Ben about maintaining our professional capacity even when we are under pressure and that this ability is what will make us individually and collectively great.

A week ago I know I lost a vast chunk of my professional capacity when it dawned on me I had to write 22 comments and take 22 photos to share with parents (with hindsight that is not a lot to do!). I am proud of myself as I did ask for help but then I didn’t really appreciate the help I was given as I felt it wasn’t “right”.

Having come out of the other end of this particular tunnel I can now see that I blew the task up so it seemed way bigger than it actually was, and although I did my usual list writing to help me all I needed to do was just get started. Once Claire pushed me to get started the task wasn’t actually that bad! Having read and re-read the comments and battled internally with the present and past tense of some of the comments I’m actually happy with what I have achieved and am feeling quite confident about the meetings next week – that I do actually know my children well enough to talk to them and their parents.