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Teaching and Learning through Reflective Practice
Now in its second edition, Teaching and Learning through Reflective Practice is a practical guide to enable all those involved in educational activities to learn through the practices of reflection. The book highlights the power that those responsible for teaching and learning have to appraise, understand and positively transform their teaching. Seeing the teacher as a reflective learner, the book emphasises a strengths-based approach in which positivity, resilience, optimism and high performance can help invigorate teaching, enhance learning and allow the teacher to reach their full potential. This approach busts the myth that reflection on problems and deficits is the only way to better performance.
The approach of this new edition is an appreciative one. At its heart is the exploration and illustration of four reflective questions:
What s working well?
What needs changing?
What are we learning?
Where do we go from here?
With examples drawn from UK primary teacher education, the book reveals how appreciative reflective conversations can be initiated and sustained. It also sets out a range of practical processes for amplifying success. This book will be a must have for undergraduate and PGCE students on initial teacher training programmes. It will also interest practising teachers, teacher educators and those on continuing professional development courses.
The approach of this new edition is an appreciative one. At its heart is the exploration and illustration of four reflective questions:
What s working well?
What needs changing?
What are we learning?
Where do we go from here?
With examples drawn from UK primary teacher education, the book reveals how appreciative reflective conversations can be initiated and sustained. It also sets out a range of practical processes for amplifying success. This book will be a must have for undergraduate and PGCE students on initial teacher training programmes. It will also interest practising teachers, teacher educators and those on continuing professional development courses.
224 pages, Paperback
First published December 9, 2010
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April 22, 2016
This book is interesting for anybody that knows already a bit about reflective practice. In fact, I think it is already a significant change in perspective to go from a deficit-based to a strengths-based approach that if the reader has not any preconceived notion of reflective practice, this book will be too much to handle at once. Not that the writing is complex or anything, but more that to fully grasp the new perspective, it requires a certain set of pre-acquired knowledge.
Very interesting read for professional development, teachers, and coaches.
Very interesting read for professional development, teachers, and coaches.
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