Looking at my work

Let's start by doing some thinking about the work you do.

What do you do? What's your job description?

What five or six words could best sum up the qualities you need to do your job well?

What do you most want to achieve - for your students and for yourself?

What brought you to your job?

Have your motivations changed since you started your job? You might like to think about this in this way:

• Moving in: What convictions, beliefs and commitments have deepened for you?
• Moving out: What ideas, methods, assumptions, prejudices, goals, have you left behind or discarded?
• Moving on: What fresh or new insights or ideas have emerged for you? What developments do you want to see on the horizon?
• Moving up or down: Has the credibility , authority and legitimacy of your goals and commitments in Further Education increased or decreased? Are you more, or less, listened to and respected? Among or by whom?

What do you really enjoy doing?

What do you find heavy going?

What would you like to see the back of?

What during the last year (if anything) has spurred you on and fired your imagination?

What has given you a sense of grief or regret? What angers you?

In terms of your working experiences what links and connections with the gospel spring to mind? What particular events, stories, sayings from Scripture seem to connect strongly with how you experience FE and your work within it.

Using any metaphor you want how would you describe your role in Further Education in gospel terms?

Try to sum up your thoughts and reflections in your journal: Who am I and what am I doing?

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