BECOMING A CRITICALLY REFLECTIVE TEACHER

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BECOMING A CRITICALLY REFLECTIVE TEACHER

• Hunting Assumptions
• Stephen Brookfield

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ASSUMPTIONS

• Paradigmatic - structuring, framing, taken as
  reality
• Prescriptive - how we and others should behave
• Causal - if we do this then that will happen
• POWER (ours others)
• HEGEMONY (killing us softly)

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ASSUMPTIONS OF TEACHING

• Good Practice Whatever Helps Students Learn
• Best Teaching is Critically Reflective
• Most Important Knowledge Teachers Need to Do Good
  Work How Students Experience Learning
  Teaching

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AN ADULT APPROACH TO TEACHING

• RESPECT
• RESEARCH
• RESPONSIVENESS

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EXPERIENCING LEARNING

• IMPOSTORSHIP
• CULTURAL SUICIDE
• LOST INNOCENCE
• INCREMENTAL FLUCTUATION
• COMMUNITY

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FOUR LENSES ON PRACTICE

• AUTOBIOGRAPHY
• STUDENTS EYES
• COLLEAGUES PERCEPTIONS
• THEORY

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WHAT ADULTS APPRECIATE

• CREDIBILITY
• Expertise
• Experience
• Rationale
• Conviction

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WHAT ADULTS APPRECIATE

• AUTHENTICITY
• Congruence
• Full Disclosure
• Responsiveness
• Personhood
• Error (Suitably Timed)

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CRITICAL INCIDENT QUESTIONNAIRE (C.I.Q.)

• Most Engaged Moment
• Most Distancing Moment
• Most Helpful Action
• Most Puzzling Action
• What Surprised You

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WHY C.I.Q.s ?

• Problems Warned
• Grounds Actions
• Student Reflectivity
• Builds Trust
• Diverse Methods
• Critical Thinking

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MODELING CRITICAL REFLECTION

• Talking Out Loud
• Critical Incident Questionnaire
• Journaling
• Assumption analysis
• Speaking in Tongues
• Structured Devils Advocacy

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GUIDELINES

• Modeling
• Building the Case
• Peers as Reflective Mirrors
• Focus on Specific Experiences
• An Incremental Movement Closer to the Direct
  Examination of Personal Experience

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Exercises

• Scenario Analysis
• Crisis Decision Simulations
• Heroes/Heroines Villains/Villainesses
• Critical Conversation Protocol (Storyteller,
  Detectives, Umpire)
• Good Practices Audit

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www.stephenbrookfield.com

• Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
• (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 1995)
• The Power of Critical Theory Liberating Adult
  Learning and Teaching
• (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2005)