#128: What the data reveals about 2021

Teacher accreditation applications drop as Co-vid grips the nation  It’s a headline that you’d expect to see after the past 12 months of uncertainty pressure and stress isn’t.  Teachers have most definitely been inundated by tasks and learning that are very much outside their comfort zone .  
It’s no wonder then that reflective practice and gathering evidence for accreditation would take a back seat. 
Right? 
And yet. 
2021 also saw educators learning new skills (er thanks Ms teams, Google Classroom, online learning, etc) faster then they have had to before.  
It gave us plenty of opportunities to feel uncomfortable and… perhaps more importantly, it may have given us permission to get things wrong and try again. 
At Edufolios, we help educators to tell stories about their practice and then use the Australian Professional Standards for Teacher to understand (and celebrate) their impact.   
That means we have thousands of data points to explore.  Data points that  tell as story about what teachers in Australia have been focusing on the most during 2021 
What’s the real story of teaching practice in 2021?  
In this week’s episode we: 
Celebrate those of you who have continued to reflect on your practice. ( nearly 9000 focus areas got tagged last year.. yep 9,000 – reflective practice is alive and well!) 
Look at which focus areas the uni students are talking about the least and come up with a plan to create an opportunity for the HA and Lead teachers to use this information to help improve their pre-service mentoring. 
We look at how teachers’ focus have shifted… significantly… from the last time we did this in 2020 and what we can learn from that to help us move forward 
I share the one focus area that, for the first time ever, has become the least talked about focus across three career stages.. and it’s NOT a good thing peeps…  
I celebrate that 6.2 (professional development) NO LONGER holds the top spot for most talked about standard 
We use the data to consider plans for professional development in 2022 so that you can move forward with confidence (even when teaching is so uncertain!)