Stagnation

I've become stagnant. It's hard to admit, but after a string of decidedly average observations, I have to face the fact that I'm not as good a teacher as I think I am.

The abstractions and distractions of Masters level study seemingly do not help. Instead, they suggest pretense and smugness, not things you want when you're coasting along doing as little work as possible to keep your classes fresh and experimental.

The temptation is to read more stuff about language teaching, and take a step back from the scholarly, worthy articles. What I really need to do is pull my finger out.

Reflective Learning Journals

While reading Research, supervision, and the network society

The Reflective Journal, now being submitted as part of teacher training portfolio, is an altogether different type of writing from the assignments alongside. It fosters all the aspects of thought and language that academic discourse continues to defend itself against. The real value of the RLJ lies precisely in these aspects, and its ability to connect theory and practice so subjectively.