My personal formula for reflecting on my practice is a simple one: review, respond, react. In my school division, the process of reflecting on our work is an essential component of our evaluation process. It is no longer enough to teach a lesson but you need to reflect back over not only the way you presented the information or designed the lesson but you also need to reflect on how the information was received and processed by the learner. We rely heavily on the work of Charlotte Danielson in our evaluation process and use the CLASS system for program evaluation. Both of these strategies require you to look closely at what you are doing and how students are responding to instruction.
My approach is very simplistic but it works for me. First I review the information at hand. Do I understand what happened, or what information I observed/learned? Then I respond with a restatement of what I observed, believed to have happened, and most importantly my feelings about my role in the instruction/learning process. Then I react to my instruction/learning by adapting what happened, develop strategies for improvement, recognize challenges and successes and use all of the information gained to build new learning for me and my audience.
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