Reflective Practitioner
I am a critical and constructive reflective practitioner. I believe it to be a core task in order to encourage students to embrace and engage with reflective practice in a deep and meaningful way, to encourage critical and contextual thinking. I was initially slow to embrace critical reflection and found myself prescriptively documenting activities undertaken. Eventually through persistent engagement with reflective practice I established a good working habit of self-evaluation and self-assessment which ultimately improved my approach to classroom based evaluation.
Extracts from my Reflective Journal:
Extracts from my Reflective Journal:
Reflecting on Evaluation:
‘’Previously I held back to consider ‘how might I best offer advice to this student? This created a time lapse between the student’s action and my re-action or advice. I have subjectively observed pupils actions to date. I have written empirical observations but going forward I need to observe, act, evaluate and assess the students work in real time in order to avoid this time lapse between creation and evaluation. I will need to enforce a more critical approach in my teaching.’’ |
Reflecting on modeling my Artist identity in the classroom:
'’If I had the time back I would make the bust in a time sensitive condition. Start the work, time myself, clean up and place away the pieces – in the time constraints of a 30/ 40 minute class time frame. Really flesh out how much making time is actually available.’’ |
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