1. Dr Dennis Francis Commonwealth Education Trust
Being a Teacher
Dr Dennis Francis Commonwealth Education Trust

2. Foundations of Teaching for Learning
Course 2: Being a Teacher
Week 3: Influences on my learning
Lecture 3.2 Reflective practice

3. The nature and value of reflective practice
What do I understand by reflective practice?
Why is it considered important?
What does it mean for me in my classroom?

4. Taken-for-granted knowledge?
Reflective thinking moves us away from routine thinking/action (guided by tradition or external authority) towards reflective action (involving careful, critical consideration of taken-for-granted knowledge). It starts with experience and stresses how we learn from ‘doing’, that is from practice, formulating ad testing hypotheses as we go.

5. Tacit knowledge
The term “tacit knowing” or “tacit knowledge” refers to knowledge that people are often not aware that they possess it nor how it can be valuable to others. So effective transfer of tacit knowledge usually requires extensive personal contact, regular interaction and trust.

6. Reflection is critical
Unless teachers develop the practice of critical reflection, they stay trapped in unexamined judgments, interpretations, assumptions, and expectations. Approaching teaching as a reflective practitioner involves fusing personal beliefs and values into a professional identity.
(Larrivee, 2000, p.293)

7. Values, beliefs and hypotheses
My values
Deep conviction, unlikely to change or to change easily
CHANGE
My beliefs ‘I think that… but I am open to change
My hypotheses
Ideas or strategies that need to be put to the test

8. Testing hypotheses What would happen if…….
What’s the worst that could happen?
What’s the best that could happen?

9. The reflective practitioner: Two types of reflection
reflection-on-action (after-the-event thinking)
reflection-in-action (thinking while doing)

10. Reflection-on-action (after-the-event thinking)
What went well today? WHY? What did not go so well? What will I do differently next time?

11. Three Rs Retrospection: thinking back about a situation or experience
Review: critically analysing and evaluating the actions and feelings associated with the experience, using theoretical perspectives
Reorientation: using the results of reflection to influence future approaches to similar situations or experiences.”
(Quinn, 2000, p.82)

12. Reflection-in-action: (thinking while doing)
What is happening here?
What are students doing?
What are the differences among them?
What have I done?
What am I doing?
What am I going to do next?

13. Self awareness Critical thinking Reflection
How aware am I? How do I reflect and how critical am I of my own practice?
Self awareness
Critical thinking
Reflection

14. Foundations of Teaching for Learning
Course 2: Being a Teacher
Week 3: Influences on my learning
Lecture 3.2 Reflective practice

15. Dr Dennis Francis Commonwealth Education Trust
Being a Teacher
Dr Dennis Francis Commonwealth Education Trust