Reflection is a self-evaluative cycle that starts in classroom experience and feeds CPD. ‘Once you start implementing changes, the reflective and evaluative cycle begins again.‘
Procedure
- After a lesson: what happened, why, how could it improve? (e.g. check TTT or engagement and find the cause)
- Formats: teaching journal, recorded lessons, critical friend, action research.
- Cycle questions: What am I doing? Why? How effective is it? How are students responding? How could I do it better?
- Change one thing in your go-to lesson next time.
Theory
Farrell (reflective practice; named, no work cited).
Limits
A practical overview with no evidence. It doesn’t say how to tell whether reflection changed practice.
Connections
Reflective journals and critical friends · CPD portfolios - What, So what, Now what