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Critical Reflection in Education
Hibajene M. Shandomo
Assistant professor of elementary education, she engages with future teacher candidates and helps them apply critical reflection into their daily lives.
She teaches her student teachers to develop individual professional growth plans when reflecting back on their lessons in class (with their own students).
What interested her in critical thinking?
Interaction with students and teachers is a big factor on how teachers project their lesson, the more student and teachers are alike (culturally and socially), the better behavior and academic performance is.
Fact: by 2020 all students will come from an ethnic minority group, but will still be taught by predominately white teachers.
Teachers of color are more likely to understand and embrace their students that come form a minority ethnic group because they are culturally informed.
What is critical reflection?
Interpreting and identifying the meaning behind an experience.
It is a blend of learning through experiences while looking at the theoretical and technical side
Journal writing
Hibajene Shandomo uses this weekly when working with future educators also known as reflective journaling.
This includes writing about their experiences in the classroom while teaching. This helps them remember, reconstruct, and re-create.
Why is critical reflection important?
"not 10 years of experience, but rather 1 year's experience 10 times"
If teachers were to not reflect on their work they would stop growing and developing, this can be as soon as their first year of teaching.
Reflective teaching (self-examination)
Helps educators learn from experience. This allows for educators to be deliberate and intentional with their lessons rather than random and not thought through.
It is not okay for teachers to be in a "plan and teach" cycle, without reflecting on their lessons they can fall into the habit of not wanting to change anything because of "common sense".
"It's okay I've done it before..."
Critical reflection (with students)
After each reading assignment in class have students reflect in their journals
Students may thing a reflection is something they do, but it's about reporting what they did and beyond that.
Critical reflection involves reflective thinking (whys, hows, and what ifs)
Critical Reflection (Teachers)
To make sure that educators get into the habit of critical reflecting follow these steps. (pg 106)
reflections for implemented or observed lessons
coaching and conferencing process
reflective journaling
creating a growth portfolio
goal setting for identified weakness and strengths
reflect summary of whole course