Mindlab Activity 1: My Reflective Practice

 My reflective practice in relation to Jay and Johnson's model is that I feel I am very confident and consistent when reflecting about the first phase being "Descriptive". I am confident when keeping notes and short reflections about what is happening in my day to day practice, is it working and how am I feeling it is going. I feel these reflections are great as you can quickly notice if lessons have gone well and you can easily look back to have evidence of your own practice and teaching. These quick reflections are very helpful as you can see where to go next, what worked and what didn't.


I feel like the next phase in the model about comparative. I often feel that I am not comparing or critically analysing my reflections in depth enough to get deeper features of why things are happening and how my reflective process is going to inform and renew my new practice. I also rarely if ever read professional or academic resources to critically evaluate my own practice. It is important as a teacher to be reflective and knowledgeable about what is happening and why.


When I first started blogging it was just brief sentences and ideas about what I was doing and what I could do next. At this time I felt I was being reflective but looking back I feel like it is just defined as Rapid reflection (Zeichner and Liston, 1996). This is just immediate, ongoing and automatic reflections about what is happening.

Zeichner and Liston

(1996)

Zeichner and Liston

(1996)

After these realisations I have become more confident and I am still beginning to grow how I reflect on aspects of my own practice. I am trying to read appropriate literature to assist in my reflections so that I am being more critical about my practice.


https://www.colorado.edu/education/sites/default/files/attached-files/Zeichner&Liston_Teaching_Student_Teachers_to_Reflect.pdf