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Method: Vision Cone Reflection
Use a three-zone “Vision Cone” to map your teaching journey—past achievements, current strengths, and future goals—while honoring diverse paths and contexts.
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Diagram Setup (2 min):
Draw a large cone divided into three horizontal zones labeled Past, Present, and Future. Provide sticky notes or index cards in multiple colors and allow words, sketches, or symbols.
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Past Zone (3 min):
On colored notes, jot down key pedagogical and didactic skills you’ve already developed—experiences, successes, and challenges. Acknowledge the cultural and personal contexts that shaped these milestones.
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Present Zone (3 min):
In the middle band, note your current competencies and areas for growth. Use different colors or icons to reflect how your background, identity, and lived experience inform your practice today.
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Future Zone (3 min):
In the top segment, articulate the additional skills and knowledge you aim to gain. Envision your ideal teaching self in ways that respect multiple ways of knowing and teaching.
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Group Share & Reflection (4 min):
In triads, briefly share one insight from each zone. Listen attentively, honour each storyteller’s journey, and note common themes or unique trajectories that inspire collective learning.
Cultural & Contextual Sensitivity:
This non-linear tool values every educator’s unique path. Participants choose what to share, respect differing comfort levels, and recognize that growth unfolds in many directions—creating space for inclusive, respectful design of professional development.
Temporal Awareness:
In many Indigenous worldviews, time is not a straight line but a web: the past shapes the future just as the future informs our present, and we carry ancestral wisdom forward. Honouring these perspectives invites us to rethink “progress” as a reciprocal journey rather than a one-way trajectory.