Thinking Dispositions

During Teacher Only Day, taking every moment of downtime to trawl through the Live Twitter Feed, These caught my eye.

We spent the day hashing out Learning Dispositions in our school and their visibility in practice.

I can't help but continue to draw the parallels between what we endeavour to instil in our students and what we equally must endeavour to instil in ourselves. No one is perfect... if they were, what learning would need to take place? What a boring life that would be!

I'm drawn to my defects within this graphic:

Managing Impulsivity is something I've grappled with forever! The irony is that, with an ADHD son, I'm finding more and more of my own quirks that align with his behaviour... Managing Impulsivity being one! How many times has hindsight given me a reminder that I need to work on this?

Thinking and Communicating with clarity and precision: Now you'd think that in my profession this would be a given... With age I've found this harder to control when I'm communicating 'on my feet' so to speak. With time to process... even a few moments... I'm good. I can even articulate thoughts and ideas quite well. However, in the moment... 

My thinking tends to go on tangents. Often. There's no rhyme or reason for ti and sometimes it can go out of control, however there is often an epiphany in there that works in my own head, but may be extremely difficult to articulate to others. Sometimes the Thinking and communicating gets a little jumbled. 

I'm setting myself a goal, as of now, ('on my feet' - I haven't really thought this out!) of Keeping my mouth shut. I need to develop my own Communication by ensuring I treat my thoughts like weeds, by considering them before choosing to communicate them. In order to develop the clarity and precision of my communications, I need to ensure that they are a great deal more considered! (And yes, again I can draw a parallel to my sons tendencies!)