Summary
Contents
Subject index
The connections between reflective practice and professional development are the focus for this book, which offers guidance to support lasting change and provides strategies to enable self-initiated professional development. The book includes: • Traditional approaches to reflective practice • How to enhance the effectiveness of reflective practice • Putting reflective practice in context • How reflective practice can improve attainment for students and staff • An Appendix of useful resources With case studies from new and experienced teachers, as well as examples of reflective practice from trainee teachers and from students studying across a range of Education courses, author Peter Tarrant equips the reader to develop their own reflective practice framework. Relevant also to practitioners working across the children's workforce, the book encourages personal and professional development for the whole range of professionals working in education and care.
How can we make Reflective Practice More Effective?
How can we make Reflective Practice More Effective?
Chapter Overview
In this chapter, we will be looking at how we might enable these reflections to be articulated so that they can properly be considered, valued and thereafter have an impact on practice. The chapter examines:
- A constructivist approach
- Problems with terminology
- Peer tutoring
- Peer learning
- Professional articulations
- Advantages of the professional monologue
- Comments from teachers about reflection
- Professional monologues: a person-centred approach
- Setting the agenda
- Loaded questions
- An alternative vision
- Variation
In the last chapter, we looked at the many different forms of reflection that are associated with teaching and teacher training. Many of the traditional approaches have the added challenge in that they can be perceived, by the participants, as being about accountability and the promotion of agendas that belong ...
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