Reflective practice in practice

  1. Self-questioning. Asking yourself questions can help you understand the effect and efficiency of your teaching.
  2. Experimenting with new ideas. …
  3. Discussing with other colleagues. …
  4. Discussing with students. …
  5. Observations and feedback

Reflection enhances personal development by leading to self-awareness. If the focus of reflection is improvement in patient care, it helps to expand and develop clinical knowledge and skills. The process slows down activity providing time to process material of learning and link to previous ideas

 

Reflective practice increases the potential of schools to improve for at least the following reasons: It creates the opportunity to continuously learn from and about educational practice. If educators do not reflect on and learn from their practice, they are likely to continue doing what they have been doing.