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This document discusses the importance and benefits of reflection for teachers. Reflection involves critically examining one's experiences and practices to improve teaching skills over time. It develops autonomy, growth, accountability, and advancement. Reflection involves questioning one's beliefs and actions, considering different perspectives, and updating approaches. Regular reflection helps teachers avoid repeating mistakes, become more effective, and continuously improve. The document outlines various frameworks for reflection, including technical, practical, and critical levels, as well as reflection-on-action versus reflection-in-action. Maintaining a reflective journal provides evidence of professional development.

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Reflection

This document discusses the importance and benefits of reflection for teachers. Reflection involves critically examining one's experiences and practices to improve teaching skills over time. It develops autonomy, growth, accountability, and advancement. Reflection involves questioning one's beliefs and actions, considering different perspectives, and updating approaches. Regular reflection helps teachers avoid repeating mistakes, become more effective, and continuously improve. The document outlines various frameworks for reflection, including technical, practical, and critical levels, as well as reflection-on-action versus reflection-in-action. Maintaining a reflective journal provides evidence of professional development.

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What is reflection?

 Experience + Reflection = Growth


 Turning experience into learning; learning from your experiences
 “Why?” not “How?”
 Growing older, we look back and have different opinion or idea of what
happened

Why reflect?
Develops Teachers’:
 Autonomy
o control of learning: Reflective Practice enables us to be aware of our strengths and
weaknesses. We can then devise strategies to improve. It empowers us to take
responsibility for our own learning.
o ability to analyse
o avoid repetition of mistakes
o avoids impulsive approach
o build confidence
 Growth
 Accountability
 Advancement
REFLECTION ON EXPERIENCE -> INITIATION OF ACTION -> DEVELOPING APPROACH TO TEACHING & LEARNING
Reflection is crucial for becoming not just an adequate teacher, but top quality teacher.
Without reflection and growth, may repeat mistakes, don't get benefits of what
you've been through

Dewey:
 Routine action
Guided by tradition, habit, authority and institutional expectations
 Reflective action
Guided by constant self-appraisal and development
3 attitudes prerequisites for reflective teaching:
1. Open mindedness (different aspects)
o listen, seek, find different perspectives, doesn't mean have to agree, but be aware
o more accepting, more knowledgeable, more empathetic/understanding
o make better decisions and respond better
2. Responsibility (consequences)
o what is the effect?
o act or not act on it
o impact on other people
o need them to question, find out, research other ideas and value them
o not disagreeing with everything
3. Whole heartedness (act, take risks)
o don't be afraid, don't feel as if they have to be right/perfect all the time
o involves reflections

Van Manen’s 3 levels of reflection


 Technical reflection
 Practical reflection
 Critical reflection

Zeichner and Liston


 Technical criteria
 Educational criteria
 Ethical criteria

Frames & Reframing


Schon
 Reflection-on-action
After most lessons
 Reflection-in-action
Thinking on the spot
Garman
 Reflection-on-action
 Reflection-through-recollection

Effective reflection
Questions own beliefs

Asks:
 How am I going to do things? "I didn't handle that very
well"
 What was the effect of that?
 What could I do differently?
 What does it all mean?
Reflect, update, improve
Seeing different points of view

Keep reflecting on how to settle rowdy students down, what's causing obnoxious attitude/behaviour
Prejudiced students
“What's made you think this way?”

Show them things -- resources/discussions/other people's point of views, to help them break out of
their bias

German WW2 history


Reflective teaching – power given to students by reflecting on what they are taught after
each class, in order to prevent repeating the mistakes of WW2

Importance of Reflection…
Reflective journal writing
 Descriptive writing
 Descriptive reflection
 Dialogic reflection
 Critical reflection
Why develop an EPortfolio?
Provides evidence of pre-service teachers who have developed open-mindedness, responsibility and
whole-heartedness, and display skills of observation and reasoned analysis

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