Reflective practice for our learners

As a trainee teacher I am getting to grips with reflective practice, however I have observed many opportunities within the classroom whereby learners would benefit from their own reflective practice (maybe in the form of blogging?) to help improve their work. I have tried to suggest this as an idea with little success. Can anyone suggest a way to motivate learners into giving it a try?

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Permalink Reply by Andrea Thompson on December 31, 2012 at 4:32am

My students are FE and at the end of the lesson they've got to evaluate the work, which they've done in the class and also their peers. We're making it normal practice to reflect back on what's been done and also helping them with how you do this, helping them analyse artwork so they can apply it to their work. We do this as a formative assessment exercise and it gets them use to analysing artwork, which is needed for written work, but also to improve their own work and hopefully help them see what they're doing well and where they may need to adjust certain parts.

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Permalink Reply by Hannah Garnham on January 16, 2013 at 3:22am

Thank you for your advice Andrea and Alex.

As Level 5 learners they are expected to know how to analyse and critique their own and others work, and apply reflective practice as part of their degree qualification. I think Alex you are right, I need to ease them in to it a little more, checking that the skills are there in tutorials or group work and practicing it regularly as Andrea suggested. This in turn will hopefully make them see the value in reflective practice and build their motivation.