Reflecting and Connecting for Lifelong Learning and Teaching (Fall 2009)

CCT Community Open House Event

held in conjunction with the CCT Network, CCT Forum, and Reflective Practice course CrCrTh 688

Date: Thursday, September 10, 2009
Time: 6:30-9:00pm
Location: Wheatley 4-148 (4th floor lounge)
Open to university community and general public as well as all in the CCT community.
Refreshments will be provided.

Please join us as we start off the fall of 2009 with our first community of the event of the semester. We'll welcome new students to the program and get acquainted with some of our reflective practice tools.

Schedule of events:
6:30: Welcome, refreshments, and introductions using CCT Bingo, followed by program announcements
7:00: Pathways to Here: an activity using autobiographical statements, guided by Professor Peter Taylor
If time, a second activity might be started using small group discussion of learning experiences
8:00: Demonstration of CCT Reflective Practice online: CCT Network page, ning, and Reflective Practice Portfolios
~8:30: close and brief meeting with Reflective Practice 688 class

During this session, we will practice using "Autobiographical Statements" as a way of introducing ourselves to each other and discuss our observations.

Autobiographical Statements provide a foundation for further examine of our progress on a reflective journey and happen within a community of others:
"Material emerging in such autobiographical statements and sessions provides more and different context than formal presentations-We know more than we are usually able to say, and opening this to exploration in subsequent conversations and sessions is an important basis for participants (inter)connecting their work. When people hear what they happen to mention and omit in telling their own stories, they gain insight into their present place and direction. The workshop organizer will begin, and in doing so provide some context for the workshop." (from http://www.stv.umb.edu/newsscbackground.html#obj2)