Week 17 - My Reflective Practice
Descriptive Stage In my current reflective practice I tend to reflect through two main mediums - the first being face-to-face reflection with my peers, and the second being on my planning sheet daily as things work well, or need adapting depending on the students needs. I used to have a third reflective practice in which I typed into a Google doc. weekly, however I stopped doing this as I felt I wasn’t getting anything from it and it was more a task I ‘had to do’ as it was part of my BT mentoring - I didn’t understand the purpose of it then. Looking at the online survey responses from week 17 from my peers, it appears that the majority also reflect on their practice on their own or with a peer. Had I had a reflection model such as Jay and Johnson’s (2002) reflective model to base my reflections on, I could have seen the purpose of reflecting on my own practice. Comparative Stage The thought of sharing my reflections ‘out loud’ makes me feel uncomfortable...
