Second Maternity Update
Second time round my eldest is 4 and my youngest is a 4 months. As parents we sometimes take turns looking after one child at a time when possible to have 121 time. If I'm lucky and it's the baby I get to rest and sleep too! Lush! Still in the stage of so cute, chatty and smiley but also pretty immobile.
My 121 time with the eldest is usually the baby in a sling/pushchair and asleep. We've made papier mache Blippi head, cakes, cookies, home made play dough, shaving foam fun, lego creations and been on various walks.
My brain is still going strong ten to the dozen and working on me.
1.
The last two academic years were full of change. My bosses changed, my role developed and changed again.
I've felt overwhelm with many changes on top of a busy worklife.
Some of the pressure I felt, I put myself under but it still needs to get done. WHY?
I may overcomplicate some tasks while working them out. WHY??
2.
Personally, I returned to the UK in 2014. My husband later joined me.
My father was diagnosed with another cancer, he deteriorated and passed away.
My Mum was diagnosed with Parkinson's after a TIA in 2013. Lockdown has not helped along with the natural progression, this has led to a deterioration in health.
3.
I fell pregnant full of anxiety/fear being very reactive and had a baby during a pandemic.
Not to be stopped I am working on me, reflecting on my changes, my CPD is
A. Improve leadership skills, not necessarily to become management.
B. development of my ideal role to include some teaching/ quality IQA, mentoring/coaching and experiences through reading etc.
C. Values linked to B
D. subject knowledge English
--------- if time
E. modern resource creation.
F. Research driven T&L assessment & observation methods, admin changes since mat leave? New systems
G. Workload Marking and Feedback policies learner books etc.
H. Behaviour management? Updates
I. Select reflection sections to action in L5DET.
So I used my favourite CPD tool Twitter and encountered two communities;
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#JoyFE is made up of individuals who work in Further Education (FE) and wanted to have a routine during lockdown and later evolved onto making a difference in education. This has continued post lockdown number 3 and is ever-increasing in wonderful activities.
I "know" some of the people involved from my Twitter CPD over the years and #UKFEChat. I've attempted to dip into some activities while I've been off. A Festival Friday book discussion, some "Show It First" CPD and a reading circle.
https://www.tes.com/news/Covid-19-how-joyfe-has-been-source-connection-man
https://linktr.ee/JoyFE
2.
@maternityCPD which is the handle for The Maternity Teacher, Paternity Teacher project #MTPT project. Website: https://www.mtpt.org.uk/
Inspiring, empowering and connecting teachers choosing to complete continued professional development whilst on parental leave.
This was just starting on my first maternity leave and I've enjoyed being an individual member on this leave. I'll start return to work coaching soon.
I started volunteering for this in March 2021. I help on Twitter by scheduling the Twitter posts, ensuring presence by resharing relevant posts & linking sources of information or threads to questions.
It's interesting learning about UK schools, other subjects are linked in and about the possibilities of CPD on parental leave.
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