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Reflecting on my growth, understanding and practises related to professional inquiry:

To date I have learned that self-regulated learning as an inquiry is not just formulating questions, investigating to
find answers to build new understandings and knowledge and then communicate them effectively. It is the
process...analyzing the task, setting goals, employing strategies, monitoring those strategies and reflecting on the
performance on the task. I have realized that Im not as focused on the process as I thought I have always been both
personally and as a learning disabilities teacher. I found myself becoming more goal orientated and focused on the
end product and or grade and had to really challenge myself to monitor and reflect. I have also come to terms with
the fallacy that I dont need to always know the answers or have mastery of a goal and that we are always evolving
and learning and adding to our repertoire of skills. I have discovered that it can be very difficult to identify a deep
understanding of what it is I want to learn and narrow my thoughts into a concise goal. I have also discovered that the
authentic or real life problem solving and creating of a goal that I am interested in is a genuine motivation, but has led
me on a very challenging journey of understanding and critically evaluating my own learning style. I have found that
like students, when I am faced with unfamiliar topics I dont always know the best way to approach the task or what
goals might be the most appropriate. As teachers we often resort to best practises, but I have come to learn that
looking at practises or ideas with fresh eyes, asking questions, discovering what I am passionate about and actively
researching new ideas and solutions is how I am going to learn to regulate my own learning as well as impact my
teaching. I realize true understanding goes beyond best practises. It is delving deeper to discover more innovative
solutions and ideas and not just re-working existing solutions and dressing them up as new innovations
I started out by relying on my prior knowledge of how I learn but have discovered through gaining new
competencies that I have become more open about my prior assumptions and therefore have incorporated and
expanded ways of regulating my learning. I realized I dont always have to use the same strategies or be so rigid in my
learning and that in most cases through regulation those strategies are fluid and constantly changing or becoming
more refined. I have learned to reflect on my practises both present and past and on the complexities of the problems
in my learning, conceptualizing and the implementation of them. I have discovered that I learn through trial and error
and often over estimate or choose to want to look at the big picture," and tackle everything at once. Bouncing from
one objective of the huge goal to another adding what Ive learned as I go. In doing this I create very large tasks or
goals for myself that I always complete but realized that this is not an effective strategy at becoming proficient at time
management. I tend to be stubborn in my approach of trying to do whatever the task at hand is by myself as I have
found that it gets completed that way. My past experience has been that if I dont do it no one else will. This is both an
attribute as it has pushed me to challenge myself but has also been a hinderance as it limits my communication with
my peers and expanding my learning. I learned very quickly through reaching out to my peers that my goal was too
big for the nature of this course. I was most grateful for the feedback and encouragement that I was given that helped
to me to analyze the task and gain a deeper understanding of why the task isnt the main objective but the mode to
which I will learn new practices in self-regulation. Finally, although not technically having to do with the content of this
course I had many steep learning curves with regard to technology. I am very proud of my efforts at mastering how
to blog and am also relying on new web based sites that I have often avoided as I found the formatting, uploading,
downloading very difficult!
Cheers,
Jen

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John Hendrickse
July 30 at 11:40 AM
Wow you are a very gifted writer! I connect with many similar problems such as being to grade orientated
and creating very large tasks that is not as effective strategy at become proficient at time management.
Now that you are aware of these things what do you do to overcome these challenges? How have you
become a better time manger? What process do you use to reflect on your work? I ask these questions
because I am interested in knowing so that I can see how your doing it and adjust my own strategies!
Great post,
John H

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Authored by: Jennifer Stooke-Crosson
Authored on: Jul 29, 2016 3:15 PM
Subject: Reviewing Problems of Practice
Reflecting on my growth, understanding and practises related to professional inquiry:
To date I have learned that self-regulated learning as an inquiry is not just formulating questions,
investigating to find answers to build new understandings and knowledge and then communicate them
effectively. It is the process...analyzing the task, setting goals, employing strategies, monitoring those
strategies and reflecting on the performance on the task. I have realized that Im not as focused on the
process as I thought I have always been both personally and as a learning disabilities teacher. I found
myself becoming more goal orientated and focused on the end product and or grade and had to really
challenge myself to monitor and reflect. I have also come to terms with the fallacy that I dont need to
always know the answers or have mastery of a goal and that we are always evolving and learning and
adding to our repertoire of skills. I have discovered that it can be very difficult to identify a deep
understanding of what it is I want to learn and narrow my thoughts into a concise goal. I have also
discovered that the authentic or real life problem solving and creating of a goal that I am interested in is a
genuine motivation, but has led me on a very challenging journey of understanding and critically
evaluating my own learning style. I have found that like students, when I am faced with unfamiliar topics I
dont always know the best way to approach the task or what goals might be the most appropriate. As
teachers we often resort to best practises, but I have come to learn that looking at practises or ideas
with fresh eyes, asking questions, discovering what I am passionate about and actively researching new
ideas and solutions is how I am going to learn to regulate my own learning as well as impact my teaching.
I realize true understanding goes beyond best practises. It is delving deeper to discover more innovative
solutions and ideas and not just re-working existing solutions and dressing them up as new innovations
I started out by relying on my prior knowledge of how I learn but have discovered through gaining new
competencies that I have become more open about my prior assumptions and therefore have
incorporated and expanded ways of regulating my learning. I realized I dont always have to use the
same strategies or be so rigid in my learning and that in most cases through regulation those strategies
are fluid and constantly changing or becoming more refined. I have learned to reflect on my practises
both present and past and on the complexities of the problems in my learning, conceptualizing and the
implementation of them. I have discovered that I learn through trial and error and often over estimate or
choose to want to look at the big picture," and tackle everything at once. Bouncing from one objective of
the huge goal to another adding what Ive learned as I go. In doing this I create very large tasks or goals

for myself that I always complete but realized that this is not an effective strategy at becoming proficient
at time management. I tend to be stubborn in my approach of trying to do whatever the task at hand is by
myself as I have found that it gets completed that way. My past experience has been that if I dont do it no
one else will. This is both an attribute as it has pushed me to challenge myself but has also been a
hinderance as it limits my communication with my peers and expanding my learning. I learned very
quickly through reaching out to my peers that my goal was too big for the nature of this course. I was
most grateful for the feedback and encouragement that I was given that helped to me to analyze the task
and gain a deeper understanding of why the task isnt the main objective but the mode to which I will
learn new practices in self-regulation. Finally, although not technically having to do with the content of this
course I had many steep learning curves with regard to technology. I am very proud of my efforts at
mastering how to blog and am also relying on new web based sites that I have often avoided as I found
the formatting, uploading, downloading very difficult!
Cheers,
Jen
Reply

Jennifer Stooke-Crosson
July 30 at 4:40 PM
Hi John,
Thanks for the wonderful compliment! It is really encouraging to hear kind words and positive
feedback! Yes, the conundrum of curriculum and how to make the shift to thinking about the
processes of learning instead of the outcome is a challenging "debate" for lack of a better word.
Being a learning disabilities teacher I often find myself discussing this issue with classroom
teachers on a daily basis if not more. I completely feel for them as it is a real challenge to be able
to completely change all that you know and have being doing for so long. However, I feel my role
is to support them through offering lesson plans, strategies and even guest teaching some of the
self-regulation techniques through lessons to their classes. While my focus is to help the learning
disabled children in their classes the lessons and self-regulating of behaviours and academia that
I teach apply to all. I hope through offering the knowledge I have and continue to learn through
courses such as this that I will be even better equipped to foster a collaborative approach and get
more of my peers on board to this kind of teaching.
To answer some of your questions regarding such things as learning to narrow my goals and
employ more effective strategies, specifically the time management issue I endeavour to master I
welcome you to take a look at my blog: www.educationaljourneyjen@weebly.com. as I have
chronicled a lot of my learning processes there. However, in the mean time to answer your
questions as briefly as possible...I have always used mind webs...but in a rudimentary
sense....scratching things out on paper. But I have never found the time to do research as I have
now into things like how to regulate my strategies. So I found some pretty "rad" articles that really
walk you through the steps (they are also available on blog) and decided to take the leap into
using educational tools (uploads) that are clear and concise. For example, the questionnaire we
did at the beginning of the course. I looked at that almost daily and found through critically
thinking and creating my project that I lacked in most areas. The biggest one being time
management and employing skills effectively. So...thanks to great peers like yourself I looked to
them for feedback. One person gave me a resource that enabled me to write down the larger
goal...break down objectives to getting to that goal and strategies that I would use. I put these into
a timeline frame and calculated how many days and hours it would require to accomplish them
all. Far to many for 7 weeks (unless of course) I wanted to spend 12 hour days everyday killing
myself to get them done. I quickly realized the goal was too big as I had too many objectives
which required even more strategies to learn and use. So I narrowed goal, picked most important
objectives i.e.) wanting the student to pick an obtainable goal. I used a mind web from a site and
then set out to write down strategies for that goal. I then put this though my time frame again and
calculated if it was feasible. Yay! I found that it was much more doable! I then decided to write
down what I was going to accomplish weekly, then daily and sometimes hourly depending on my
life schedule for that day. I had to keep checking on time...don't laugh, but I did this by using a

timer that really helped me to stay focused. If I didn't get what I wanted to get done in that time
frame I had to think about where I had gotten of track. Often, it was because of interruptions from
phone calls, texting or getting to immersed in research and learning technology. So then I thought
how can I fix this? I turned off phone, let people know when was best to contact me, and I allowed
myself to take timed breaks. Within a week I found I was actually getting everything I set out to
do. You do have to be flexible as inevitably things come up, so you readjust tasks for that day.
The most important thing I found was, that although I wasn't always successful at completing all
the tasks for that day I had to congratulate myself on becoming more time efficient and flexible in
adjusting my strategies...reworking tasks for that day but staying within the larger weekly goal
plan. While I have done this through personal notes I have yet to get all the reflections up on blog
but though conversations like this...I believe this is exactly the processes that show ones
growth! Speaking of which...with your permission, I can definitely delete your name, but I would
be grateful if you would allow me to use this feed/conversation as one of my reflections on how I
tracked my processes?
Thank you for the thought provoking questions and helping me to reflect on them and write them
down! I hope I answered some of your questions and that you might take advantage of some of
the resources on my blog! Best wishes and luck on your learning of regulation!
<<< Replied to post below >>>
Authored by: John Hendrickse
Authored on: Jul 30, 2016 11:40 AM
Subject: Reviewing Problems of Practice
Wow you are a very gifted writer! I connect with many similar problems such as being to grade
orientated and creating very large tasks that is not as effective strategy at become proficient at
time management. Now that you are aware of these things what do you do to overcome these
challenges? How have you become a better time manger? What process do you use to reflect on
your work? I ask these questions because I am interested in knowing so that I can see how your
doing it and adjust my own strategies!
Great post,
John H

<<< Replied to post below >>>

Authored by: Jennifer Stooke-Crosson
Authored on: Jul 29, 2016 3:15 PM
Subject: Reviewing Problems of Practice
Reflecting on my growth, understanding and practises related to professional inquiry:
To date I have learned that self-regulated learning as an inquiry is not just formulating
questions, investigating to find answers to build new understandings and knowledge and then
communicate them effectively. It is the process...analyzing the task, setting goals, employing
strategies, monitoring those strategies and reflecting on the performance on the task. I have
realized that Im not as focused on the process as I thought I have always been both personally
and as a learning disabilities teacher. I found myself becoming more goal orientated and focused
on the end product and or grade and had to really challenge myself to monitor and reflect. I
have also come to terms with the fallacy that I dont need to always know the answers or have
mastery of a goal and that we are always evolving and learning and adding to our repertoire of
skills. I have discovered that it can be very difficult to identify a deep understanding of what it is I
want to learn and narrow my thoughts into a concise goal. I have also discovered that the
authentic or real life problem solving and creating of a goal that I am interested in is a genuine
motivation, but has led me on a very challenging journey of understanding and critically
evaluating my own learning style. I have found that like students, when I am faced with unfamiliar
topics I dont always know the best way to approach the task or what goals might be the most
appropriate. As teachers we often resort to best practises," but I have come to learn that looking
at practises or ideas with fresh eyes, asking questions, discovering what I am passionate about
and actively researching new ideas and solutions is how I am going to learn to regulate my own

learning as well as impact my teaching. I realize true understanding goes beyond best practises.
It is delving deeper to discover more innovative solutions and ideas and not just re-working
existing solutions and dressing them up as new innovations
I started out by relying on my prior knowledge of how I learn but have discovered through
gaining new competencies that I have become more open about my prior assumptions and
therefore have incorporated and expanded ways of regulating my learning. I realized I dont
always have to use the same strategies or be so rigid in my learning and that in most cases
through regulation those strategies are fluid and constantly changing or becoming more refined. I
have learned to reflect on my practises both present and past and on the complexities of the
problems in my learning, conceptualizing and the implementation of them. I have discovered that
I learn through trial and error and often over estimate or choose to want to look at the big
picture," and tackle everything at once. Bouncing from one objective of the huge goal to another
adding what Ive learned as I go. In doing this I create very large tasks or goals for myself that I
always complete but realized that this is not an effective strategy at becoming proficient at time
management. I tend to be stubborn in my approach of trying to do whatever the task at hand is by
myself as I have found that it gets completed that way. My past experience has been that if I dont
do it no one else will. This is both an attribute as it has pushed me to challenge myself but has
also been a hinderance as it limits my communication with my peers and expanding my learning.
I learned very quickly through reaching out to my peers that my goal was too big for the nature of
this course. I was most grateful for the feedback and encouragement that I was given that helped
to me to analyze the task and gain a deeper understanding of why the task isnt the main
objective but the mode to which I will learn new practices in self-regulation. Finally, although not
technically having to do with the content of this course I had many steep learning curves with
regard to technology. I am very proud of my efforts at mastering how to blog and am also relying
on new web based sites that I have often avoided as I found the formatting, uploading,
downloading very difficult!
Cheers,
Jen
Reply

John Hendrickse
Sun at 3:06 PM
Hey Jen
1. Good idea definitely use it for a reflection and you don't have to worry about deleting my name!
2. You show passion for learning something that is to be admired! As well, your reflection to me shows
authentic growth.
3. Last your website link does not work! I tried also here is my website link please let me know what you
think: jhendrickse.weebly.com
4. I also liked the term 'rad' articles, I laughed.
John H
<<< Replied to post below >>>
Authored by: Jennifer Stooke-Crosson
Authored on: Jul 29, 2016 3:15 PM
Subject: Reviewing Problems of Practice
Reflecting on my growth, understanding and practises related to professional inquiry:
To date I have learned that self-regulated learning as an inquiry is not just formulating questions,

investigating to find answers to build new understandings and knowledge and then communicate them
effectively. It is the process...analyzing the task, setting goals, employing strategies, monitoring those
strategies and reflecting on the performance on the task. I have realized that Im not as focused on the
process as I thought I have always been both personally and as a learning disabilities teacher. I found
myself becoming more goal orientated and focused on the end product and or grade and had to really
challenge myself to monitor and reflect. I have also come to terms with the fallacy that I dont need to
always know the answers or have mastery of a goal and that we are always evolving and learning and
adding to our repertoire of skills. I have discovered that it can be very difficult to identify a deep
understanding of what it is I want to learn and narrow my thoughts into a concise goal. I have also
discovered that the authentic or real life problem solving and creating of a goal that I am interested in is a
genuine motivation, but has led me on a very challenging journey of understanding and critically
evaluating my own learning style. I have found that like students, when I am faced with unfamiliar topics I
dont always know the best way to approach the task or what goals might be the most appropriate. As
teachers we often resort to best practises, but I have come to learn that looking at practises or ideas
with fresh eyes, asking questions, discovering what I am passionate about and actively researching new
ideas and solutions is how I am going to learn to regulate my own learning as well as impact my teaching.
I realize true understanding goes beyond best practises. It is delving deeper to discover more innovative
solutions and ideas and not just re-working existing solutions and dressing them up as new innovations
I started out by relying on my prior knowledge of how I learn but have discovered through gaining new
competencies that I have become more open about my prior assumptions and therefore have
incorporated and expanded ways of regulating my learning. I realized I dont always have to use the
same strategies or be so rigid in my learning and that in most cases through regulation those strategies
are fluid and constantly changing or becoming more refined. I have learned to reflect on my practises
both present and past and on the complexities of the problems in my learning, conceptualizing and the
implementation of them. I have discovered that I learn through trial and error and often over estimate or
choose to want to look at the big picture," and tackle everything at once. Bouncing from one objective of
the huge goal to another adding what Ive learned as I go. In doing this I create very large tasks or goals
for myself that I always complete but realized that this is not an effective strategy at becoming proficient
at time management. I tend to be stubborn in my approach of trying to do whatever the task at hand is by
myself as I have found that it gets completed that way. My past experience has been that if I dont do it no
one else will. This is both an attribute as it has pushed me to challenge myself but has also been a
hinderance as it limits my communication with my peers and expanding my learning. I learned very
quickly through reaching out to my peers that my goal was too big for the nature of this course. I was
most grateful for the feedback and encouragement that I was given that helped to me to analyze the task
and gain a deeper understanding of why the task isnt the main objective but the mode to which I will
learn new practices in self-regulation. Finally, although not technically having to do with the content of this
course I had many steep learning curves with regard to technology. I am very proud of my efforts at
mastering how to blog and am also relying on new web based sites that I have often avoided as I found
the formatting, uploading, downloading very difficult!
Cheers,
Jen
Reply

Jennifer Stooke-Crosson
Sun at 8:31 PM
Hi John,
Oh dang!!! I must admit I was playing around with it when I was much too tired! I hope I didn't
mess anything up! Okay, here goes again!
www.educationaljourneyjen.weebly.com
Thank you for letting me use our feed and I appreciate your feedback! I am finding that I am
learning so much from my peers! It's hard when you are seemingly all alone on this online course.

I guess the idea that they are wanting to get across is that they (prof's) want us to be our own
teachers and critique each other! This is my first course in program so it took a little bit of getting
used to not having a prof. tell you what to do! LOL! But I guess my first clue should of been the
title SELF-REGULATION!!!!! LOL! I'm actually glad that things worked out this way by having this
course first and also having the luxury of being off for the summer to be able to really get the
hang of everything. I think it will be very helpful to me when I'm back at work and don't have as
much time to invest in the learning of the technology which has been HUGE for me! Thank you,
for your positive feed back on acknowledging my passion in regards to my educational practises
and personal growth. It is nice to hear that I have shown some growth! I will definitely get on your
site and check it out and it would be a pleasure to offer my feed back as you have done for me!
Hahahaha...."rad"....I'm old but still have a young outlook on life and a playful side! I think it's
because we are cool enough to work with kids that keep up us up on the "lingo", although rad, is
probably not the right lingo now and shows my age! Glad you got it! LOL! It's a fine line from
always trying to be professional and use the professional jargon when writing....sometimes ya just
wanna hang out and chat like you would with a bud! Hope I don't get penalized for talking "real"
LOL! Cheers my friend! Hope you are having a great weekend. To save me from going back into
our first introductions but are you in Ontario or somewhere else? I'm in BC! Also, refresh me on
what program you are in and how far along you are. I may want to bend your ear on other
courses that I will have to take in future. It would be cool to keep in touch with some of the folks
like you who have been an immense help and great encourager...lol...is that a word?
Jen C.
ps. let me know if you can get on to my bog. It may be that you have to do
Https://www.educationaljourney.weebly.com
chow for now!
;)
<<< Replied to post below >>>
Authored by: John Hendrickse
Authored on: Jul 31, 2016 3:06 PM
Subject: Reviewing Problems of Practice
Hey Jen
1. Good idea definitely use it for a reflection and you don't have to worry about deleting my name!
2. You show passion for learning something that is to be admired! As well, your reflection to me
shows authentic growth.
3. Last your website link does not work! I tried also here is my website link please let me know
what you think: jhendrickse.weebly.com
4. I also liked the term 'rad' articles, I laughed.
John H
<<< Replied to post below >>>
Authored by: Jennifer Stooke-Crosson
Authored on: Jul 29, 2016 3:15 PM
Subject: Reviewing Problems of Practice
Reflecting on my growth, understanding and practises related to professional inquiry:
To date I have learned that self-regulated learning as an inquiry is not just formulating
questions, investigating to find answers to build new understandings and knowledge and then
communicate them effectively. It is the process...analyzing the task, setting goals, employing
strategies, monitoring those strategies and reflecting on the performance on the task. I have
realized that Im not as focused on the process as I thought I have always been both personally

and as a learning disabilities teacher. I found myself becoming more goal orientated and focused
on the end product and or grade and had to really challenge myself to monitor and reflect. I
have also come to terms with the fallacy that I dont need to always know the answers or have
mastery of a goal and that we are always evolving and learning and adding to our repertoire of
skills. I have discovered that it can be very difficult to identify a deep understanding of what it is I
want to learn and narrow my thoughts into a concise goal. I have also discovered that the
authentic or real life problem solving and creating of a goal that I am interested in is a genuine
motivation, but has led me on a very challenging journey of understanding and critically
evaluating my own learning style. I have found that like students, when I am faced with unfamiliar
topics I dont always know the best way to approach the task or what goals might be the most
appropriate. As teachers we often resort to best practises, but I have come to learn that looking
at practises or ideas with fresh eyes, asking questions, discovering what I am passionate about
and actively researching new ideas and solutions is how I am going to learn to regulate my own
learning as well as impact my teaching. I realize true understanding goes beyond best practises.
It is delving deeper to discover more innovative solutions and ideas and not just re-working
existing solutions and dressing them up as new innovations
I started out by relying on my prior knowledge of how I learn but have discovered through
gaining new competencies that I have become more open about my prior assumptions and
therefore have incorporated and expanded ways of regulating my learning. I realized I dont
always have to use the same strategies or be so rigid in my learning and that in most cases
through regulation those strategies are fluid and constantly changing or becoming more refined. I
have learned to reflect on my practises both present and past and on the complexities of the
problems in my learning, conceptualizing and the implementation of them. I have discovered that
I learn through trial and error and often over estimate or choose to want to look at the big
picture," and tackle everything at once. Bouncing from one objective of the huge goal to another
adding what Ive learned as I go. In doing this I create very large tasks or goals for myself that I
always complete but realized that this is not an effective strategy at becoming proficient at time
management. I tend to be stubborn in my approach of trying to do whatever the task at hand is by
myself as I have found that it gets completed that way. My past experience has been that if I dont
do it no one else will. This is both an attribute as it has pushed me to challenge myself but has
also been a hinderance as it limits my communication with my peers and expanding my learning.
I learned very quickly through reaching out to my peers that my goal was too big for the nature of
this course. I was most grateful for the feedback and encouragement that I was given that helped
to me to analyze the task and gain a deeper understanding of why the task isnt the main
objective but the mode to which I will learn new practices in self-regulation. Finally, although not
technically having to do with the content of this course I had many steep learning curves with
regard to technology. I am very proud of my efforts at mastering how to blog and am also relying
on new web based sites that I have often avoided as I found the formatting, uploading,
downloading very difficult!
Cheers,
Jen
Reply

Jennifer Stooke-Crosson
Sun at 10:35 PM
Hi John!
Okay, just finished looking at your blog! I love the page about you and your background teaching in Hong
Kong! I taught in Mainland China in a "village" of a million or so people called Xiamen! The spellings are
different according to which map you look at! LOL! But only did it for a summer. I like the page on your
reflections....
Here's my thoughts and "2 cents"....use or disregard what works or doesn't for you! Also, just to warn you
I am a bit of an over achieving OCD type person so get very detailed. Take no offence as I only offer to
help not criticize.

1) Intro page- you wrote Queen...change to Queen's ---simple typo I know!

2) Might I suggest (as you stated you are using the blog as an ongoing portfolio for your Master's) that
you create separate pages:
Master's 800 -Self-Regulation inquiry (or whatever the specific name is for the course) and put there the
stuff that you wrote about what you hope to achieve through the course.
-under that page you can add sub-pages:
. Goal setting: upload your feed from course that you posted (this will show your original goal) and as you
move through the course you might find that it becomes more refined so may include also revisions under
this sub-page or choose to have another sub-page called revisions to goal. You could add to this page
or fist page goal setting, what specific ways you are going to go about achieving this goal. Ie) what
specific strategies are you going to focus on as there are many! What monitoring skills you are going to
personally employ to achieve the goal, how you are going to monitor your strategies etc.
.perhaps separate your pages to be very specific for the benefit of prof. to know where to go to see
exactly what she's looking for. For example add a sub page under Master's 800 called reflections
So it might look something like this:
Page 1: Intro
Page 2: about me/background
Page 3: Master's 800- self reg: state purpose of course here or why you're interested in it.
.sub page 1 under 800: Assignments and reflections:(upload them) and upload any feedback from
others you have received.
.sub page 2 under 800: Goal for final project
.sub page 3 under 800: Revisions and monitoring....this is where I might specifically break down goal
into objectives as I think you want to narrow your goal...ie) specific strategies you are going to study, what
you are going to use as "your personal" monitoring strategy(s), what you are going to create i.e.) rubrics
on assessments of use of strategies, student self assessment forms, teaching of strategy lesson etc. You
may wish to include feed back from peers from course that helped you refine your goal.
.sub page 4 under 800: professional literature....this was one of the assignments so upload them and
add to them as you work through your goal. Add you tube vid's or on-line articles....this shows the
diversity in your resources.
.sub page 5 under 800: Strategies and worksheets: this is where you can upload the strategy
worksheets you have developed i.e.) through using a helping site like rubistar4teachers (this is a rubric
site that you can create assessment pages for students) or any other sites you come across that you can
find that you can make worksheets on the lessons on the different strategies you are going to teach the
students (creep my blog for sites).
.sub page 6 under 800: Final Project
Like I said please don't feel that you need to use any of suggestions. I just think it might make it more
clear for the prof and your readers like me to have clearly defined pages. That's just how my brain works!
Cheers! Dam just looked at time.....I'm late for date with friend!v LOL!
bye for now!
Jen C.

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Authored by: Jennifer Stooke-Crosson

Authored on: Jul 29, 2016 3:15 PM
Subject: Reviewing Problems of Practice
Reflecting on my growth, understanding and practises related to professional inquiry:
To date I have learned that self-regulated learning as an inquiry is not just formulating questions,
investigating to find answers to build new understandings and knowledge and then communicate them
effectively. It is the process...analyzing the task, setting goals, employing strategies, monitoring those
strategies and reflecting on the performance on the task. I have realized that Im not as focused on the
process as I thought I have always been both personally and as a learning disabilities teacher. I found
myself becoming more goal orientated and focused on the end product and or grade and had to really
challenge myself to monitor and reflect. I have also come to terms with the fallacy that I dont need to
always know the answers or have mastery of a goal and that we are always evolving and learning and
adding to our repertoire of skills. I have discovered that it can be very difficult to identify a deep
understanding of what it is I want to learn and narrow my thoughts into a concise goal. I have also
discovered that the authentic or real life problem solving and creating of a goal that I am interested in is a
genuine motivation, but has led me on a very challenging journey of understanding and critically
evaluating my own learning style. I have found that like students, when I am faced with unfamiliar topics I
dont always know the best way to approach the task or what goals might be the most appropriate. As
teachers we often resort to best practises, but I have come to learn that looking at practises or ideas
with fresh eyes, asking questions, discovering what I am passionate about and actively researching new
ideas and solutions is how I am going to learn to regulate my own learning as well as impact my teaching.
I realize true understanding goes beyond best practises. It is delving deeper to discover more innovative
solutions and ideas and not just re-working existing solutions and dressing them up as new innovations
I started out by relying on my prior knowledge of how I learn but have discovered through gaining new
competencies that I have become more open about my prior assumptions and therefore have
incorporated and expanded ways of regulating my learning. I realized I dont always have to use the
same strategies or be so rigid in my learning and that in most cases through regulation those strategies
are fluid and constantly changing or becoming more refined. I have learned to reflect on my practises
both present and past and on the complexities of the problems in my learning, conceptualizing and the
implementation of them. I have discovered that I learn through trial and error and often over estimate or
choose to want to look at the big picture," and tackle everything at once. Bouncing from one objective of
the huge goal to another adding what Ive learned as I go. In doing this I create very large tasks or goals
for myself that I always complete but realized that this is not an effective strategy at becoming proficient
at time management. I tend to be stubborn in my approach of trying to do whatever the task at hand is by
myself as I have found that it gets completed that way. My past experience has been that if I dont do it no
one else will. This is both an attribute as it has pushed me to challenge myself but has also been a
hinderance as it limits my communication with my peers and expanding my learning. I learned very
quickly through reaching out to my peers that my goal was too big for the nature of this course. I was
most grateful for the feedback and encouragement that I was given that helped to me to analyze the task
and gain a deeper understanding of why the task isnt the main objective but the mode to which I will
learn new practices in self-regulation. Finally, although not technically having to do with the content of this
course I had many steep learning curves with regard to technology. I am very proud of my efforts at
mastering how to blog and am also relying on new web based sites that I have often avoided as I found
the formatting, uploading, downloading very difficult!
Cheers,
Jen
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