Second week in

So here I am again, i have taken a few days before i completed this post as i needed time to process a few things. There is my personal journey into undertaking a postgraduate, and there is my learning journey.
Lets start with the learning, and is always the way it will probably criss cross into the personal. When I signed up for this I was so excited! I loved the idea of learning new knowledge and skills that i could incorporate into my practice to not only improve me but also to better cater to my students needs now and into the future. As it is becoming abundantly clear our world is changing and evolving at an ever increasing pace. What we teach today may well be redundant in 5 or 10 years. We are receiving students who are technologically more aware than a lot of us, a clear signal of changing times. We need and must meet their learning needs, and even more so it is not the transference of knowledge. Bring in Key competencies, and now the 21st century learning. We are now developing lifelong students. Students who can seek and evaluate new knowledge, assimilate and transfer skills across curricula, who are resilient, innovative and real world problem solvers. They, and we are forging into unknown waters and we need to prepare them and ourselves. What was once science fiction is now reality, impossible now possible exciting right?
How do we prepare? We ourselves must step out into that uncomfortable zone of change and evolve, become learners, challenging ourselves, beliefs and ideologies. We must become the instigators of change and innovation, the lighter of flames for a fellow peers and indeed collaborators of an ever evolving curriculum.
For me personally this was not a task undertaken lightly and I have watched and mulled over the last 2 weeks, and it has not been easy. Lets face it we are all highly, academically intelligent people, teachers who have degrees and some who already hold postgraduates in other areas, we all knew what we were getting into. For me, I rarely ask for help and I was taken aback when i expressed how I was feeling and that i was struggling to understand our first assignment, I was advised if I wanted to drop out I needed to do so soon or I would have to repay money. I was offended! I do not quit, I fight and try my hardest to the bitter end. I find the delivery of this paper hard as I am slightly hearing impaired so I miss a lot in the conversation, but I know I am not the only one who feels like this. I watch and I hope this is not 21st century teaching, catering to the quick and able and the slower ones floundering behind. I hate not knowing, I hate feeling a burden on anyone so I will fight on, maybe get more vocal in my struggle to understand, and just do more study on my own, revisiting class work. I suspect I will also be learning to ask for help more often on the Google+ thingy (love that techy talk) So if anyone else is feeling the same chin up your not alone, we can do this! We are teachers, creators of change :)
Sorry for the long ramble