reflective practice: formulating your teaching experience (ppt)
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Reflective Practice: Formulating Your Teaching Experience - presentation at the KOTESOL Busan Reflective Practice Symposium on Saturday, April 21, 2012 by Josette LeBlancTRANSCRIPT
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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