Developing Reflective Practice
1st Edition
Published on 8. January 2011
330 pages
978-0-335-24259-7 (ISBN)
Description
This student friendly practical guide helps you get to grips with reflective practice in teaching, through bite-sized sections that are informative and quickly digestible. The book clearly explains some of the best-known theories on reflective practice and then shows how reflection on and in practice can have a positive impact on classroom performance. The very real problems faced by beginning teachers are brought to life through the use of rich case studies as well as extracts drawn from the reflective journals of those starting their teaching career.
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09/2011
Open University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Developing Reflective Practice
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 What can reflective practice mean for you . . . and why should you engage in it?
- 2 How do you become a reflective professional?
- 3 Who do you think you are . . . and who do you think you will be as a teacher?
- 4 How consciously reflective are you?
- 5 How does your teacher identity fit in with the culture of teaching and the organization?
- 6 Identifying and mapping your complementary support systems: who are your partners in reflection?
- 7 How can you use reflection to develop creativity in your classroom?
- 8 Are you a fatalist or an idealist?
- 9 Frameworks to make small changes with big impact: how can detailed reflection improve your practice?
- 10 How can you make the best use of feedback on your teaching?
- 11 How can you overcome constraints to enhance reflective practice?
- 12 How can e-reflection help develop your practice?
- 13 'Reflection, reflection, reflection, I'm thinking all the time, why do I need a theory or model of reflection?'
- 14 Taking the longer term view: how can reflective practice sustain continuing professional development?
- Appendix 1 QTS standards summary
- Appendix 2 Grade criteria for the inspection of initial teacher training 2008-11
- Appendix 3 Using progression grids for staged feedback
- Appendix 4 Action plan for augmenting mentor support
- Glossary
- References
- Index
