WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:04.990 So these next few slides deal with Reflective Practice. 2 00:00:04.990 --> 00:00:08.800 So, using teacher reflection to improve your practice. 3 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:12.370 The definition of reflective practice in general is, 4 00:00:12.370 --> 00:00:15.140 a way of analyzing your own experiences 5 00:00:15.140 --> 00:00:18.570 in order to improve the way you're working. 6 00:00:18.570 --> 00:00:20.430 So, of course you can do this in a variety of fields, 7 00:00:20.430 --> 00:00:22.080 but we're specifically talking about 8 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:24.970 ineducation as an educator. 9 00:00:24.970 --> 00:00:28.060 So, when we're talking about teacher reflection, 10 00:00:28.060 --> 00:00:30.990 we wanna just keep in mind, that this can be done 11 00:00:30.990 --> 00:00:32.850 independently or collaboratively. 12 00:00:32.850 --> 00:00:37.660 Sometimes, it is really beneficial to make it collaborative, 13 00:00:37.660 --> 00:00:40.693 but it's still useful when it's done independently. 14 00:00:41.810 --> 00:00:44.260 The other thing to keep in mind, just with the definition 15 00:00:44.260 --> 00:00:46.880 of what reflective practice is and what it's all about, 16 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:50.700 is to remember that you 17 00:00:50.700 --> 00:00:52.280 should be reflecting 18 00:00:52.280 --> 00:00:54.470 while you're in the moment of teaching, 19 00:00:54.470 --> 00:00:58.310 so you're reflecting sort of in practice as you're teaching. 20 00:00:58.310 --> 00:01:01.350 And then you're taking time later and afterward 21 00:01:01.350 --> 00:01:05.652 to then reflect back onto your practice. 22 00:01:05.652 --> 00:01:07.453 So, sort of duel-fold in nature. 23 00:01:08.880 --> 00:01:12.880 The second bullet here on this slide is just... 24 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:15.100 Is just pointing out that the whole purpose 25 00:01:15.100 --> 00:01:16.660 of doing this reflective practice 26 00:01:16.660 --> 00:01:18.810 is to create behavioral change. 27 00:01:18.810 --> 00:01:22.200 So, changing what you're doing in the classroom, 28 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:25.470 for the purpose of improving performance. 29 00:01:25.470 --> 00:01:28.180 Your performance, and student performance in this case 30 00:01:28.180 --> 00:01:32.300 since teaching and learning has the reciprocal relationship. 31 00:01:32.300 --> 00:01:35.440 And you're doing this through a variety of means. 32 00:01:35.440 --> 00:01:36.810 Professional growth and development 33 00:01:36.810 --> 00:01:38.490 is gonna come into play here. 34 00:01:38.490 --> 00:01:41.360 And again, the purpose being, 35 00:01:41.360 --> 00:01:43.903 improved instruction and learning. 36 00:01:45.870 --> 00:01:47.940 The next slide focuses on-- 37 00:01:47.940 --> 00:01:50.360 The next two slides actually focus on 38 00:01:50.360 --> 00:01:53.000 the different tools that you can use 39 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:57.170 in order to put this into practice, teacher reflection. 40 00:01:57.170 --> 00:01:59.400 For all of these tools that we're gonna go through, 41 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:03.020 that are our bullet points, we're just keeping in mind 42 00:02:03.020 --> 00:02:06.940 that as we're using them, we're asking reflective questions 43 00:02:06.940 --> 00:02:11.120 and focusing the tool to these types of questions. 44 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:14.610 So for example, how do I feel about, this? 45 00:02:14.610 --> 00:02:17.630 What have I learned from, that? 46 00:02:17.630 --> 00:02:19.730 What work went well here? 47 00:02:19.730 --> 00:02:23.130 Or, what did not go so well here? 48 00:02:23.130 --> 00:02:24.800 What could I have done differently? 49 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:27.630 So, with all of these tools, you're sort of infusing 50 00:02:27.630 --> 00:02:30.560 these questions into the using of them. 51 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:33.690 So the first one here is, doing some type 52 00:02:33.690 --> 00:02:36.410 of reflective journaling, keeping a journal. 53 00:02:36.410 --> 00:02:38.870 This could be, an online journal like a blog, 54 00:02:38.870 --> 00:02:41.293 or it could be a hand written journal. 55 00:02:42.520 --> 00:02:44.660 You could do it daily, weekly. 56 00:02:44.660 --> 00:02:47.100 This is just something for you to be reflecting 57 00:02:47.100 --> 00:02:49.930 about your own teaching practice in that manner. 58 00:02:49.930 --> 00:02:52.280 The second tool that you could use 59 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:55.080 is a self or peer assessment. 60 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:58.640 So there's lot's of pre-created forms 61 00:02:58.640 --> 00:03:01.100 that you could go to and use, that you're filling out 62 00:03:01.100 --> 00:03:03.630 yourself, or you're perhaps asking a peer 63 00:03:03.630 --> 00:03:06.763 or a colleague to help you fill out about your practice. 64 00:03:07.720 --> 00:03:12.720 The third tool on this slide is incident analysis. 65 00:03:12.750 --> 00:03:14.960 This is when something has happened in the classroom 66 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.420 that was most likely unplanned 67 00:03:19.958 --> 00:03:23.167 and you deem it worthy of some extra attention. 68 00:03:24.930 --> 00:03:28.180 So in this sense you're sort of taking an incident 69 00:03:28.180 --> 00:03:30.340 that happened and then you're analyzing it 70 00:03:30.340 --> 00:03:31.460 in a reflective way. 71 00:03:31.460 --> 00:03:34.296 It could be formally, you're writing it down 72 00:03:34.296 --> 00:03:36.660 or writing about it, or it could just be a discussion 73 00:03:36.660 --> 00:03:39.283 you're having with a colleague or an administrator. 74 00:03:40.600 --> 00:03:43.690 Some other reflection tools: 75 00:03:43.690 --> 00:03:45.503 The use of a portfolio. 76 00:03:46.870 --> 00:03:49.370 We talk a lot about portfolios with regard 77 00:03:49.370 --> 00:03:52.140 to student portfolios, but this would a teacher portfolio. 78 00:03:52.140 --> 00:03:54.760 So this would be a way that you could create 79 00:03:54.760 --> 00:03:59.330 a sampling of journal entries, assignments 80 00:03:59.330 --> 00:04:02.730 that you've given, notes that you've taken, 81 00:04:02.730 --> 00:04:05.770 that have to do with either your teaching philosophy, 82 00:04:05.770 --> 00:04:07.853 your work environment, 83 00:04:09.390 --> 00:04:11.790 your beliefs as a teacher, 84 00:04:11.790 --> 00:04:15.713 and even minute details about how a specific lesson went. 85 00:04:16.770 --> 00:04:19.750 So keeping a portfolio is another strategy for-- 86 00:04:19.750 --> 00:04:24.180 Or another tool to use to reflect of your own practice. 87 00:04:24.180 --> 00:04:27.670 The next one listed here, is having a peer observe you. 88 00:04:27.670 --> 00:04:31.060 So specifically having a colleague come in. 89 00:04:31.060 --> 00:04:33.850 You could give them something very specific to look for 90 00:04:33.850 --> 00:04:36.190 or it could just be a situation where you're asking 91 00:04:36.190 --> 00:04:38.610 for their general feedback about what they're noticing 92 00:04:38.610 --> 00:04:40.870 when they're in you classroom watching you teach. 93 00:04:40.870 --> 00:04:43.010 So just another tool that you could use 94 00:04:43.010 --> 00:04:45.160 to reflect on your own practice. 95 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:47.960 And then the final tool here is listed as 96 00:04:47.960 --> 00:04:49.720 other critical observer. 97 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:51.870 And this is just the idea that you're using 98 00:04:51.870 --> 00:04:54.090 someone else to come in an observe you. 99 00:04:54.090 --> 00:04:58.530 So this could be an administrator, this could be a friend. 100 00:04:58.530 --> 00:05:01.860 It could be a mentor teacher who comes in. 101 00:05:01.860 --> 00:05:04.600 And again it could be for a very specific purpose, 102 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:06.207 you tell them, "Look for-- 103 00:05:06.207 --> 00:05:09.967 "I'm really working on trying to individualize 104 00:05:09.967 --> 00:05:13.977 "the attention I'm giving when guided practice is going on". 105 00:05:14.900 --> 00:05:17.647 Or, it could be something that is set up more generally: 106 00:05:17.647 --> 00:05:18.977 "Please come in and watch me teach. 107 00:05:18.977 --> 00:05:22.310 "Tell me what you notice, what sticks out for you". 108 00:05:22.310 --> 00:05:25.570 So again, just lots of different tools that you can use 109 00:05:25.570 --> 00:05:28.170 in order to be reflective about your own practice 110 00:05:28.170 --> 00:05:29.893 to improve student learning.