The Power to Reflect

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The Power to Reflect

• Dr. Charles B. Starkey
• Bloomsburg University

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Todays Guiding Essential Questions

• What is reflection and why is it so important and
  powerful to the modern-day educator?
• How are Guidelines for Grading 1 and 2 possibly
  making a change in the direction upon which you
  are traveling?
• Using the PA Common Rubric, what are new insights
  the advanced level that show critical thinking
  and a change in the direction of your travel?

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Dewey says reflection is

• http//www.infed.org/biblio/b-reflect.htm

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Guidelines for Critical Thinking
Blooms Taxonomy
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Reflect upon the first 2 Guidelines for Grading

• What messages are these guidelines collectively
  trying to communicate to you, tomorrows teacher?
• If much of tomorrow is in all we do today
  (Starkey 2003), then what is the theory of Dewey
  saying through the research of OConnor?