APC Activity 1- Introduction to APC blog

Introducing a Reflective Journal
Welcome to the first post in the Applied practice in context (APC) blog by Lou Reddy.
The course overview will underpin much of this blog's development and share the journey of writing a blog and documenting the learning with APC.

Applied Practice in Context
Course aim: To critically examine and contextualise practice and develop a critical understanding of how indigenous knowledge and cultural responsiveness, society, ethics, environment and law inform practice.Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate a critical understanding of how indigenous knowledge and cultural responsiveness inform practice.

• Critique and evaluate practice in the context of different audiences (local, national and/or international) and their perspectives.

• Critically analyse issues of ethics, society, culture and professional environments in relation to practice.

• Critique and address issues of law, regulations and policy in practice.

Brief introduction by the author:
My name is Lou Reddy and I am the Assistant Principal at Wesley Intermediate School. I have been attending the Mindlab postgraduate study since November 2014 and aim to continue research in the leadership and digital fields within education. Although my time as a school teacher is limited (5 years), I have come from a sales and marketing background within the NGO sector. I am really keen to see schools grow in their capacity to actively use digital and collaborative practices to increase student learning outcomes.

My approach to teaching and learning is simply based on two aspects- engagement and fun, whereby learners and teachers will achieve greater outcomes if the learning experience is both engaging and fun. I have shown an example of this application in my previous blog for developing a behaviour management tool called the the PB4L app. I believe that I am most interested in developing behaviour based interventions in order to make learning both fun and engaging.

I am also heavily involved with community and Local board initiatives which use digital and collaborative practices as well. Recently Wesley Intermediate School partnered with Project PETER in order to create more jobs, education services and space to develop employment opportunities for our youth.