Educator Reflection Tips


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Educators spend an abundance of time planning and preparing lessons, but how often do we as educators stop to think about and analyze the overall outcomes of our lessons--retention of knowledge, the appropriateness of the strategies, learner engagement, etc. The Educator Reflection Tips series provokes in-depth analysis of your everyday instructional practices, provides insights into what research says should be included within all aspects of instruction, poses reflection questions to help readers determine the effectiveness of the educational approaches used, and Fowler-White has even included tools to use as you craft a plan to adopt, adapt, or enhance your current practices. The distinctive format of the first volume in this series enables readers to choose their own path to attain knowledge. Unlike other educational books, each Reflection Tip is written independently from the others, so there is no need to read the text cover to cover as is the traditional method of content written for educators. The three distinct clusters found within this volume include: #1 Content-driven Concepts which focuses on the instructional core and content-specific knowledge. #2 Classroom Competencies that outline instructional strategies educators can incorporate into their practice. #3 Classroom Culture which provides guidance for developing relationships and meeting the diverse needs of students. Additionally, you will find the E.M.P.O.W.E.R. Feedback Framework which the author created to outline the steps educators should take to help students take ownership of their learning and a Summertime S.L.I.D.E. Toolkit to help combat learning loss. It's everything you need to elevate your instructional practice. Come reflect with me!!




Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher


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A practical guide to the essential practice that builds better teachers. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher is the landmark guide to critical reflection, providing expert insight and practical tools to facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique. Stephen Brookfield shows how you can uncover and assess your assumptions about practice by viewing them through the lens of your students' eyes, your colleagues' perceptions, relevant theory and research, and your own personal experience. Practicing critical reflection will help you… Align your teaching with desired student outcomes See your practice from new perspectives Engage learners via multiple teaching formats Understand and manage classroom power dynamics Model critical thinking for your students Manage the complex rhythms of diverse classrooms This fully revised second edition features a wealth of new material, including new chapters on critical reflection in the context of social media, teaching race and racism, leadership in a critically reflective key, and team teaching as critical reflection. In addition, all chapters have been thoroughly updated and expanded to align with today's classrooms, whether online or face-to-face, in large lecture formats or small groups. In his own personal voice Stephen Brookfield draws from over 45 years of experience to illustrate the clear benefits of critical reflection. Assumptions guide practice and only when we base our actions on accurate assumptions will we achieve the results we want. Educators with the courage to challenge their own assumptions in an effort to improve learning are the invaluable role models our students need. Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher provides the foundational information and practical tools that help teachers reach their true potential.




Becoming a Reflective Teacher


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Just as successful athletes must identify strengths and weaknesses, set goals, and engage in focused practice to meet their goals, so must teachers. Learn how to combine a model of effective instruction with goal setting, focused practice, focused feedback, and observations to improve your instructional practices. Included are 280 strategies related to the 41 elements of effective teaching shown to enhance student achievement.




Reflective Practice in Action


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Use 80 reflection breaks as individual discussion starters or as part of a comprehensive professional growth plan that is perfect for teachers at all levels.




Teaching Students to Self-Assess


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In this essential guide, Starr Sackstein—a National Board Certified Teacher—explains how teachers can use reflection to help students decipher their own learning needs and engage in deep, thought-provoking discourse about progress. She explains how to help students set actionable learning goals, teach students to reflect on and chart their learning progress, and use student reflections and self-assessment to develop targeted learning plans and determine student mastery. Filled with practical tips, innovative ideas, and sample reflections from real students, this book shows you how to incorporate self-assessment and reflection in ways that encourage students to grow into mindful, receptive learners, ready to explore a fast-changing world.




180 Days of Self-care for Busy Educators


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This book provides educators with a thirty-six week program of daily self-care strategies and techniques, each corresponding with a week of the school year. Weekly themes range from creativity and inspiration to relationships and time management for teachers and administrators.




Teaching Writers to Reflect


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Even if your writing workshop hums with the sound of productive work most days, with time carved out for sharing and reflecting, how do you know whether your students are really learning from their writing experiences, or if they're just going through the motions of writing? What if you could teach your students to reflect-in a powerful, deliberate way-throughout the writing process? Teaching Writers to Reflect shares a three step process-remember, describe, act--to help students develop as writers who know for themselves what they are doing and why. The authors argue that teaching the skill of reflection helps students: - Build identities as writers within a community of writers - Learn what to do when there's a problem in their writing - Make writing skills transferable to more than one writing situation. With specific teaching strategies, examples of student work and stories from their own classrooms, Whitney, McCracken and Washell help you align the work of reflection with your writing workshop structure. After learning to reflect on what they do as writers, students not only can say things about the texts they have written, but also can talk about their own abilities, challenges, and the processes by which they solve writing problems.




Educator Reflection Tips Volume II


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The Educator Reflection Tips book series is designed to deepen the knowledge and increase the skill set of professional educators. Each book in this series includes a multitude of resources, along with probing reflection questions designed to provoke readers to think deeply about their classroom experiences, past and present and to take specific actions aimed at refining and improving their craft which will enhance teaching and learning in our schools. After reading this book, you will begin to take charge of your own professional growth. No longer will you depend on the traditional method of waiting on feedback from administrators and colleagues. You will be equipped with instruments to routinely consider where you are on the self-reflection continuum and use the tools provided to create action steps for improvement. Volume II in the series takes readers on a deep dive to determine habits of effectiveness in these critical areas: Classroom CompetenceCritical LiteracyCyber ConnectionClassroom CultureThe ten reflection tips highlighted in Volume II invite readers to embark upon a journey of contemplation, heightened awareness, and action-oriented transformation. Each Reflection Tip is uniquely crafted to empower educators to think critically about key factors which influence student outcomes. Additionally, the accompanying infographics offer ready-made tools which can be used individually, in Professional Learning Communities, and school-based Professional Development sessions. As we continue to reconsider instruction during this ever changing point in time, it is vital for each of us to take an open and honest look at our methods for planning, teaching, assessing, and enriching academic systems to determine their overall effectiveness. Education is a life-long process. In the pursuit to help students achieve academic excellence, teachers must continuously seek out strategies to add to their instructional toolbox. Let's redefine how you approach instruction together.




Open to Outcome


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Combining more than 30 years of facilitating, training and teaching experience, the authors use field-tested approaches to create a group reflection experience that maximizes engagment, participation and, most importantly, learning.The 5 Question Model takes the essential elements of classic learning cycles debriefing and presents them in such a way that they can be quickly understood, used and taught to a wide variety of skill levels.




Developing Reflective Practice


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The ability to reflect on practice is a fundamental component of effective medical practice. In a sector increasingly focused on professionalism and patient-centred care, Developing Reflective Practice is a timely publication providing practical guidance on how to acquire the reflective skills necessary to become a successful clinician. This new title draws from a wide range of theoretical and practical multidisciplinary perspectives to assist students, practitioners and educators in embedding reflection in everyday activities. It also offers structures and ideas for more purposeful and meaningful formal reflections and professional development. Developing Reflective Practice: Focuses on the developing practitioner and their lifelong learning and the development of professional identity through reflection Provides practical how-to information for students, practitioners and educators, including realistic case examples and practice-based hints and tips Examines and explains the theoretical and conceptual approaches to reflective practice, including its models and frameworks.