Week 17: Evaluating My Reflective Practice
(Based on Jay and Johnson’s Reflective Model, 2002) When I studied to become a teacher back in 2006, I was under the impression that I would always have the time and energy to effectively reflect and feed forward into future practice… that happens, and I am sure others would agree… just not as often or as deeply as we would like. During my journey to become a teacher, we wrote copious reflective notes on each student, each lesson, throughout each day and then individually or collaboratively wrote extensive reflections at the conclusion of each unit of teaching. I have always loved writing and exercising my reflective skills – I felt in my element communicating my self-awareness and understandings (Eby, 2000) in order to develop better, brighter learning for students in future classroom escapades. I had reveled in the level of reflection that my old teaching study had promised but now, as a practicing teacher 10 years on, an accurate depiction would be as follows: Reflect...