Reflective Practice

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Reflective Practice

•    has an active concern with aims and
  consequences, as well as means and technical
  efficiency
•    is applied in a cyclical or spiralling
  process, in which teachers monitor, evaluate and
  revise their own practice continuously
•    requires competence in methods of classroom
  enquiry (gathering data, analysis, evaluation) to
  support the development of teaching competence
•    requires attitudes of open-mindedness,
  responsibility and wholeheartedness
•    is based on teacher judgement which is
  informed partly by self-reflection and partly by
  insights from educational disciplines
•    is enhanced through collaboration and
  dialogue with colleagues

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What is Reflection?

• Reflection involves "a state of doubt,
  hesitation, perplexity, or mental difficulty, in
  which thinking originates". This uncertainty is
  followed by the act of searching to find
  materials that will resolve this doubt and settle
  the perplexity (Dewey, 1933)
• Learning is about change resulting from
  experience and reflecting on what we have learned
  and how we have changed

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Six Stages of Reflection

• 1. The experience itself learning
• 2. The Description of the experience
• 3. The Interpretation of the experience from
  which we draw meaning
• 4. Generalising from the experience
• 5. Applying the lessons from the experience
• 6. Presentation based on reflection.

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What is Learning?

• Working in groups of 3 4, consider what you
  consider constitutes learning.
• Attempt a definition
• Log this on to flip-chart, IAW, post-its etc.,
  and feedback

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Definition Learning

• The emphasis is on change through experience is
  reflected in one of the most familiar models of
  learning proposed by Kolb (1984)
• http//www.ruby3.dircon.co.uk/Training
  Files/Theory Pages/3brains.htm

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Using Kolb to Reflect

• Concrete Experience DOING
• Reflective Observation REFLECTING
• Abstract Conceptualisation
• EVALUATING inductive deductive
• Active Experimentation LEARNING

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Definition Learning

• Learning any relatively permanent change in
  behaviour that occurs as a result of experience
• change in behaviour
• relatively permanent
• result of experience