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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.
The Challenges, Benefits and Possible Solutions to using Reflection in a Professional Context
The Challenges, Benefits and Possible Solutions to using Reflection in a Professional Context
Chapter Overview
- Getting started: key features
- Motivation to reflect
- The need for reflective practice
- Introducing this approach as a leader
- Developing the core skills required
- Question banks
- Skills
- Establishing structure and ground rules (including pairings)
- Developing a structure to support the interactions
- Accountability tools
- Moral considerations
- Challenges and possible solutions
- Peer learning with observation
- Peer learning without observation
Although this chapter might appeal to readers with a management responsibility, it is not aimed simply at them. Individuals who are motivated to take responsibility for their own professional development might be interested in reading how they could introduce some form of articulated learning in their own situation. The approach is designed to work in ...
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