1. Exploring Models of Reflective Practice
Shelley Tracey
6th September 2010

2. Outline of session 2. Queen’s University model
1. Models of reflective practice
2. Queen’s University model
3. Sharing models of reflective practice
4. Exploring reflective practice using creative approaches
5. Developing a European model for reflective practice
6. Looking ahead to the rest of the seminar

5. Models of reflective practice
1. Donald Schön: the reflective practitioner
Reflection in action - during practice
Reflection on action – after practice

6. Learning cycle (Kolb)

8. Stephen Brookfield: 4 lenses through which to reflect on our practice
autobiographies
as teachers and learners
Our students’
eyes
Our colleagues’
experiences
Theoretical
literature
context

9. Stephen Brookfield
“Reflective teachers investigate the hidden dimensions of their practice and become aware of the omnipresence of power.”

10. Teacher Education: Reflection
“the development of more complex models of reflection, related to purpose, which take greater cognisance of existing knowledge from other disciplines, particularly those aspects of psychology concerned with cognitive processes including problem-finding, insight, wisdom, creativity”
Leitch and Day (2000: )

11. Modes of reflection: Individual and collective verbal and non-verbal process and product

12. "It is not the answers that show us the way, but the questions."
Rainer Maria Rilke

13. Images of reflection

18. Processes of reflection
Thinking
Discussion
Critical reflection
Writing
Drawing
Imagining
Meditating
Dreaming
Visualising

19. REFLECTIVE PRACTICE: MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES MODEL
inclusive of peers, learners, different approaches
engaging learners
understanding and enhancing motivations for learning
collaborative model; combination of individual and group learning processes, peer learning

20. REFLECTIVE PRACTICE: MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES MODEL
5. uses a range of methodologies, incorporating creative methods
6. recognises that learning requires opportunities to question, explore, play, challenge, synthesise ideas
7. incorporates reflection on the learning process (tutors and learners; individual and collective)

23. Sharing models of reflective practice

24. Creative approaches to reflection
Create opportunities for teachers to reflect and self-direct (Leitch, 2008, p. 150)
Enable teachers to draw on their skills and strengths
Incorporate different types of learners and learning styles

25. Literacy Travellers’ Tree (2007)

29. Using creative approaches for reflection

32. Acrostic poem

34. Multiliteracies

42. Explore models of reflective practice, using creative methods

43. 5. Developing a European model for reflective practice

44. 6. Looking ahead to the rest of the seminar