Level Conversations_RP (AM teaching staff) by Grace Orchard School

#01 Recalling what has happened or said and deducing what has gone wrong to find a better way to do/ say it. #02 Using Reflection Practice on Personal level will allow me to be a better person to self and to others. It will develop better relationship with others. On Professional level, I will be able to be better skilled in my task or job. #03 My barrier to Reflective Practice is perhaps the unwillingness to recall or remember what has happened. (may be due the pain or the unpleasant feeling it will bring about). To overcome this I need to have the mindset that it is for the better of self as well as for the future.

2021-11-06 12:51:35 UTC

No.1 RP is the process where you go through the experience in your mind and separates out what went well and what not, from the findings form a hypothesis. Later test it out. if it went well document it for further case studies, if not , what change can implemented. And its an on going process. No.2 To have better manage the situations in both personally and work areas. No.3 when the situation is unpredictable and fluid. the solution after individual approach, engage others to co-analyze and roll out potential solutions. two or three heads are better than one.

2021-11-07 13:44:26 UTC

2021-11-08 09:46:11 UTC

What is reflective practice?
To me, it’s about reflecting about whether I’ve done something right or something wrong in my teaching. I re-evaluate my teaching approaches and try to think of other ways to solve problems in the classroom.

2021-11-08 09:48:44 UTC

Why is Reflective Practice beneficial?
It helps me to review some goals which I have set for my students. If I have achieved them, I know I’ve done something right and I can move on to deal with other issues next. If I’ve not achieved them, it signals the need for a better solution so that my goals can be met.

2021-11-08 09:51:12 UTC

What are some barriers to Reflective Practice?
Heavy workload is one of the barriers for me as there is a limit to how much things we can reflect and process at any one time. Heavy workload also causes me to have less rest which will also in turn be a barrier to reflective practice is the mind is tired.

Q1

2021-11-09 04:08:16 UTC

To reflect and think of what has happened, why it happened, the good and bad of the things I've done and how can I improve on it?

Q2

2021-11-09 04:11:11 UTC

I think that it will help me reflect and think of my own actions and what can be done better if I reacted or done it another way. Looking at ways to improve myself and the outcome of things. I will also have the chance to think through what I have learnt from my own experience and from others.

Q3

2021-11-09 04:31:52 UTC

I think that the main barrier will be time. We are always busy with something and if we have free time, we will want to rest our mind and not think of anything. We also do not have the habit to do reflections, it will never be on our to-do list. I think one way to overcome this is to specifically set aside time for reflection. It does not have to be long, maybe just 15-30mins. Or we can do it when we are taking the public transport on the way home, or having a note book or even phone to write down our thoughts anywhere we go.

What is reflective practice?

2021-11-09 09:30:04 UTC

It is a process where an individual engages in intentional reflection to learn from experiences and learn continuously. Reflective practice allows us to avoid past mistakes and look at things from a different perspective, allowing us to develop new ideas. This will challenge our current practices to improve what we are currently doing as well as maximise opportunities for learning.

Q3

2021-11-09 09:37:22 UTC

I feel that time and energy is the biggest barrier to reflective practice. Sometimes it’s hard to reflect when all you are trying to do is finish the day and finish the things on your to-do-list. When you are mentally drained, any forced reflection is not efficient nor helpful to better yourself. The best reflections happen without you thinking.
I find that it helps to have a routine where you can reflect (<5 min) and unwind before leaving school. Then you leave all those thoughts in school instead of bringing them home to ruminate when you mentally don’t have the energy to deal with those things.

Q1

2021-11-09 12:40:07 UTC

Reflective practice is the art of thinking in a defined manner to understand how to further improve certain situations to prevent mistakes. When done properly it helps maintain a healthy work-life balance by allowing us to move on and not dwell too deeply on the what could have beens.

Q1

2021-11-09 22:50:26 UTC

Reflective practice is the way to think about what are the things/practices that have been done and evaluate if these are suitable for the profession.

Q2

2021-11-09 22:52:18 UTC

Reflective practice can be valuable both personally and professionally. Personally, it helps a person to reflect on his/her own strengths and flaws to guide them in their lives and grow.

Professionally, it helps a person to see how they can learn from their mistakes and improve in their work.

Q1: Thinking about what could have been done better or whether there are other ways of doing things. Q2: Allows us to improve. Q3: No time, especially for teachers when we have high amount of workload everyday. Reflective practice takes time and metacognition, and we may simply not have the luxury of time to do so.

2021-11-09 22:54:13 UTC

Q3

2021-11-09 22:54:31 UTC

Time and workload are some of the biggest barriers to reflection. Sometimes it can be a difficult to sit down and spend time reflection as one is tire out from a long day of work/family commitments. Personally, i tried to spend some time before bed to reflect about things that had happened thru the day

2021-11-09 23:15:42 UTC

1. The ability to reflect on what, why and how we do things and to adopt and develop our practice.

2. Helps to improve one's ability, think about their thinking and to judge the quality of their work based on evidence.

3. To pen the reflection down in words may not be of interest to everyone. Lack the interest to express reflection in one way (through writing).

4. Accept that it is the only mode of reflection made available and have it done.

What is Reflective Practice?

2021-11-10 00:21:05 UTC

Reflective practice is thinking over how things went and the lessons that can be learnt from it, with the main focus of doing so to be that of helping us deal with similar future events in a better way than before, or to help us manage the future better in general. Reflective practice is thinking done with the main focus of bettering the future.

What is the value of Reflective Practice?

2021-11-10 00:28:16 UTC

On a personal level, reflective practice enables self-discovery, and promotes a better understanding of ourselves. It allows us to manage our emotions better, to be aware of what makes us tick and what might potentially upset us, so that we can be more mentally prepared for unexpected unpleasant surprises that might happen in the future.

On a professional level, reflective practice enables me to improve in my teaching methods and processes. It allows me to consolidate my experiences in the classroom to know which practices work best, how some should be modified, and also how some others should be discarded. Likewise, the focus of doing so would be for the benefit of future students I will teach.

Barriers to Reflection

2021-11-10 00:45:47 UTC

This may sound sick or nerdy, but people around me tend to comment that I "think too much", so I believe I'm constantly on reflection mode, thinking over various events in my life, because to some extent, reflecting does give me pleasure, in terms of enabling me to understand myself better and be self-assured to gain a better understanding of what I truly want through reflections. Hence, a barrier that might cause me to stop reflecting would be when the event that happened in my life is something I deem to be insignificant to my life, and not worthy of my brain's bandwidth to be invested in reflecting. Or when an event or topic is not within my interests, I might also not be too keen to invest braincells to reflect on them.

To overcome my barriers of being apathetic towards certain events such that I'm not willing to invest time to reflect on them, I try to overcome these barriers through curiosity. By being curious and exposing myself to more areas to widen my general knowledge, I would hopefully be able to make connections that what I thought I was apathetic towards might well be linked to an area of my interest, as things can possibly be rather interconnected if we make efforts to find their connections. This is one way which might spark my interest to start reflecting on things I once had the barrier of having felt apathetic towards reflecting it.

Q3: We have too many things to do. Not much time to do reflection.

2021-11-10 06:43:21 UTC

Q2: To help improve oneself in a particular area.
Q1: To reflect on the things that has gone bad or good. Either way we reflect on how to improve on the things or situation.

What is reflection practice?

2021-11-10 06:47:34 UTC

Think through what we have done. what are the effective ways, and what are not effective. sometimes it may take quite a while to find out these.

what is the value of using reflective practice?

2021-11-10 06:50:40 UTC

Be open and honest to what is happening, and willing to try whatever ways it work, different people may use differnt way, no standard answers. dont be too quick to come to conlusion.

what are the barriers for reflection?

2021-11-10 06:53:33 UTC

Personally, I think is the fear to spoil things , fear to fail or make things worse. so becoming very cautious to try something new. But i think it is a process. Need to face it. so dont worry too much.

Benefits of reflective practice

2021-11-10 06:56:24 UTC

Helps us be more creative: spark new ideas and ways of thinking.
challenge assumptions and see things from a new perspective.
Emotional intelligence - the ability to understand and remain in control of our emotions. This is a useful skills to have both for our own wellbeing and when working with others.
maintain a healthy work/life balance by offering a defined process for thinking things through. Hopefully you can learn from them and move on rather than dwelling on what happened.

Q1

2021-11-10 06:58:09 UTC

Action of thinking back about your practices

My barrier to reflective practice is environment and motivation. I guess I miss the fun element in reflecting on practices.

2021-11-10 06:59:22 UTC

Q2

2021-11-10 07:01:40 UTC

Helps us to check our actions and to have time for us to think back on our practices, what has been done and whether things can be done better in a different way.

Q3

2021-11-10 07:02:58 UTC

Lack of time, Organisational culture. Change of environment

Reflective practice is to think about how and why we do what we do in the classroom.

2021-11-10 07:21:20 UTC

Reflective practice helps us to discover ourselves and anchor our values in our practices. It informs how our beliefs are linked to our practices, and the directions and priorities we want to invest for future practices.

2021-11-10 07:23:52 UTC

What is reflection practice?

2021-11-10 07:46:38 UTC

Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one's actions so as to engage in a process of continuous learning. I try to do it as often as possible with my class (and as a class) as we reflect on the teacher's lesson and see how the lesson can be better understood through the students' lens.

It took time to do reflection!

2021-11-10 07:58:18 UTC

With family and career commitment, it took some time for new employee to get use and adjust to new work life balance. Many tend to keep for themselves and let God work his miracle.

Barrier to reflection

2021-11-10 07:58:50 UTC

Could be unwilling to remember and lack of memories to think through. No motivation to reflect cos of the pain and fear we worry about.