Reflective practice occurs when you explore an experience and identify what happened, and what your role in the experience was – including your behaviour and thinking, and related emotions. This allows you to look at changes to your approach for similar future events. If reflective practice is performed comprehensively and honestly, it will inevitably lead to improved performances.
Other authors have described it as follows:
Gibbs 1988
This is one example of different models of reflection. For other examples of models for reflective practice see: Models of reflection
Some of the information from this page has been modified from La Trobe University Reflective Practice in Health Sciences LibGuide with permission.
See Ch. 1. Reflective Action in Teaching -- AND Ch. 12. Reflecting on Teaching and the School Community.
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Reflective Practice for Professional Development provides an accessible introduction to the theory and practice of reflection. In ten concise chapters it explores how reflecting on experiences can be used for professional development and help progress knowledge and skills.
This book explores the reflective potentialities offered by analyses of teachers' professional learning narratives. The book has a specific focus on narratives on professional learning and professional identities emerging from different contexts and gives a deeper understanding of successful teachers' narratives globally.
This Open Access resource will provide a context that will allow the reader to consider their obligation to reflect from their own perspective and will explore how to create a practice that best suits their professional setting. This book will bring together in one place the history, the values, the skills and disposition required to be a reflective practitioner.
