1. An Introduction To
Reflective Practice
Year 1 PDP

2. What is reflection? - Your Thoughts
Personal Feedback
See your progress throughout the year
Thinking what you could do to improve
How you can do this
Highlighting strengths and weaknesses
Tutors and peer feedback
Video, verbal, picture - Evidence

3. What should we reflect on?
Ourselves and our peers
Singing
Dancing
Acting
Technique
Our progress
Performers
Critical Studies

4. TASK
A Dual Stance
Reflective practice involves taking ‘a duel stance, being on the one hand, the actor in the drama and on the other hand, the critic who sits in the audience watching and analysing the entire performance.’ (Osterman and Kottkamp, 2004:23)

5. Brookfield’s 4 Lenses
Brookfield (1995) Suggests that there are four lenses through which we can reflect on practice critically
Our own autobiographies and experiences as learners
The eyes of our clients
The experience of our colleagues
Theoretical literature

6. From which lenses could we see our performance or progress?

7. Linking Theory to Practice
‘Reflective practice is very important for a number of reasons. Chief amongst these is the significance of linking theory to practice - that is, making sure that our actions are drawing on a professional knowledge base and not simply on guesswork or ill-informed assumptions.’ (Thompson, 2009:65)

8. Theory of Reflective Practice
TASK
Friday 7th October 12:00 PDP Session
Present an explanation of one of the following models of Reflection
Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle
Schon’s Reflection on action and reflection in action
Mezirow’s seven levels of reflectivity
In your groups put a power point together. (You could consider using Google Docs)