1. Reflective Practice

2. What’s been your biggest teaching challenge so far?

3. Demo Lesson Analysis
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats

4. “Practice is the best of all instructors”.
Publilius Syrus

5. Goal of Reflective Practice to improve and transform our teaching

6. Reflective Practice
Thinking about
Evaluating
Analysing
Reviewing

7. The Reflective Cycle Action plan Conclusion Analysis Evaluation
Feelings
Description

8. The Reflective Cycle Feelings
What were your thoughts and feelings during the task/activity?
Were you anxious, pleased, confident, frustrated?
How did you feel after the lesson? Did your feelings change?

9. The Reflective Cycle Analysis What were the results/
consequences/outcomes of the lesson/part of lesson?
What were the reasons for things going well or badly?

10. The Reflective Cycle Conclusion What alternative approach/
task/activity could you have used?
How could you have organized/
managed the class differently?

11. Continuing professional development
Reflective practice
Continuing professional development

12. Reflection I am interested in trying it.
I would like to know more about it.
I think it is
a good idea.
I already do some of these things.
Your own variant.

13. Recipe:
PLAN DO
OBSERVE
REFLECT

14. Reflective Tools
What are they?

15. Reflective lesson plan
Reflective Tools
Team teaching
Peer observation
Reflective diary
Reflective lesson plan
Self-evaluation checklist
Learner feedback
Record lessons
Classroom action research
Buddy support

16. Reflective Interview
How can sharing experience and ideas help you to develop?

17. Reflective Process Team up with colleagues
Share experiences
Join discussion forums
Post questions on the British Council website

18. “It’s not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it’s what you put into the practice.”
Eric Lindros

19. Further Reading

20. The Reflective Cycle
Problem
Decision
Reflection
Action
Solution

22. Thank you!