Running a marathon: One teacher’s experience of implementing change

Abstract

In this paper, the author reflects on her experience of implementing change in a primary school
setting. She discusses the ways in which she learned to deal constructively with resistance to change
by first building positive, professional relationships that were defined by trust. She points out that
guiding teachers in critical reflection of their own practice is challenging but that when they are
engaged in honest and open reflective practice, they begin to implement evidence-based practice in
their classroom.