Reflective/Reflexive Practices in Education

                                                                      Preamble As a teacher I have the responsibility of ensuring that the learners who enter my classroom have the best possible learning experiences.  Typically the lessons I prepare have to be determined prior to the beginning of the semester and there is usually an opportunity for students to reflect. They have to do an initial reflection which recalls their previous writing experiences and asks them to project what they think they will learn throughout the 13-week semester. The interesting thing is that prior to doing this EDD course I never really thought about using a model of reflection for their first reflection even though I do incorporate the DIEP Reflective Model into the course I teach. The incorporation of this model prepares stu...

                                                                  Source of  image:  https://medium.com As I perused the reading materials for Module 3 of my course, it became very clear to me that I was entering brand new reflective writing territory. This is because even though I had been engaging my students in reflective writing for several years, I had done so only in a face-to-face setting. My state of mind reflected the image above; a sort of venturing into the unknown. I teach a writing course and  realistically, it should be easy to think about my students writing reflectively about concepts they had learned and how learning these concepts helped them to improve their writing. Simple. It would certainly seem that way but as I  read I realized there were more many more options I cou...