Reflective Practice: Formulating Your Teaching Experience (ppt)

Reflective PracticeFormulating your Teaching Experience

Josette LeBlanc

Teach

Think

Modify

Do it again

How I used to reflect

How I reflect now

Experiential Learning Cycle

ExperientialLearning

Cycle

Description

Interpretation

S.M.A.R.TAction Plan

Specific

Measurable

Achievable

RelevantTime-bound

I’m going to make a better lesson

plan.

Typical action plan

S.M.A.R.TNext time I make a lesson plan

I will write out my instructions for

each activity

so that I know what I’m going to say.

Why do we bother going through this…

Experiential Learning Cycle

ExperientialLearning

Cycle

…instead of this?

Teach

Think

Modify

Do it again

How I used to reflect

Because we don’t want to end up like

this…

The Experiential Learning Cycle (see Dewey and Kolb) is an excellent reflective tool for deepening one’s awareness of their teaching practices. The description stage asks teachers to step back and examine the teaching and learning experience from a distance. This distance then gives the teacher the space to closely examine their assumptions and create new interpretations of what may have happened in that moment. Once all possibilities have been exhausted, teachers are better equipped to make sound decisions about how they want to teach in the future by creating a SMART action plan. It is from this point of awareness that they are able to grow as teachers.

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