My plan for the coming period is exactly what I'm doing now: writing down daily, weekly what has been learned. Or maybe that's already to ambitious. Writing down experiences, questions, observations is probably more realistic and more interesting. Becoming more and more aware that this is the essential element in learning: reflecting, giving words to experiences, becoming aware. Not a very structured and planned way of learning but maybe that's how life is; unplanned and only a little bit structured.
It doesn't mean that I don't have wishes, desires and needs towards learning new things. For example I'm totally into playing the guitar in the last months and I'm getting better every day. But I don't have to write that down in a plan because I just play every day. To write down that I want to improve my Italian doesn't make my Italian better.
So...writing down things is my objective for the coming time. Well...accompanied by some thinking of course. Not all on this blog, would be too much for this blog I guess. I will buy myself a nice, easy to take with you, notebook to write. Old fashioned with a pencil! And then there is still my Dutch blog and Twitter!
Life is wonderful these days when you want to write!!! You will read from me!
Looking forward to read from you, Paul!
ReplyDeleteWriting down what has been learned isn't an easy task. Self-assessment isn't in our habits, and even simple assessment can be a puzzle.
This year I'm learning to see the world from the point of view of a beginner language teacher (I'm in the formal side now!). My well formated old-school teacher colleagues feel very confortable to state that this one has learned nothing, this whole class is maybe not gifted for languages. They seem to understand the learning objectives for each lesson and to go for it.
I arrived all innocence with the idea of bringing some new air, changing the forms, trying out other things. Let's see how far can I go without loosing my soul.