Reflective practice:

These forums are getting pretty good, or at least I think they are giving me a bit more. My take on this topic is a bit of everything that was on the forum. As it states, this is a type of reflection. One student mentioned Kolb’s Cycle of experiential learning. We have talked about Kolb before, but yes, I can see his theory a bit better now.

Mind you this is an important step in most areas that we endeavour to peruse. Then it hit me. Hey, I have done this before.  I actually made learning materials on teaching courses in the UK about this. Okay to be fair, I was following the standards set out by the awarding bodies, but I actually wrote about this in two different courses that I help develop. The courses were part of the teachers in the lifelong learning sector; to be specific PTLLS and CTLLS. In it there is a whole section on reflective practice in order to improve personal performance, sort of a self-evaluation.

Here is a link to a resource that is using this technique. http://www.mheducation.co.uk/openup/chapters/9780335222407.pdf

In it they use Kolb’s Cycle, but they also use Gibbs model of reflection learning by doing. If anyone is interested I have the work on the PTTLS, which stands for Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector, but I don’t have the CTLLS anymore, due to copy write purposes.