What is reflective practice in teaching?
Reflective practice is ‘learning through and from experience towards gaining new insights of self and practice’ (Finlay, 2008). Reflection is a systematic reviewing process for all teachers which allows you to make links from one experience to the next, making sure your students make maximum progress.
Why is reflective practice and supervision important in coaching?
Supervision, with expert supervisors, is vitally important in helping coaches to get into this reflective space, so that they can overcome obstacles, and learn and practice new skills, which enables them to deliver the best possible coaching service into the organisation.
What is coaching supervision and why is it important?
Coaching supervision focuses on the development of the coach’s capacity through offering a richer and broader opportunity for support and development. Coaching supervision creates a safe environment for the coach to share their successes and failures in becoming masterful in the way they work with their clients.
Why is it important for teachers to be reflective?
Teacher reflection is important because it’s a process that helps teachers to collect, record, and analyse everything that happened in the lesson. It allows teachers to move from just experiencing, into understanding.
How do you do reflective practice?
Developing and Using Reflective Practice
- Read – around the topics you are learning about or want to learn about and develop.
- Ask – others about the way they do things and why.
- Watch – what is going on around you.
- Feel – pay attention to your emotions, what prompts them, and how you deal with negative ones.
What are the key elements of coaching supervision?
The 7 eyed model of supervision
- Mode 1: Getting the coachee into the room.
- Mode 2 : The coach’s interventions.
- Mode 3: Relationship between coach and coachee.
- Mode 4: The coach’s awareness.
- Mode 6: Supervisor self-reflection (supervisor’s awareness)
- Mode 5: The supervisory relationship.
- Mode 7: The wider context.
What does reflective supervision mean?
Reflective supervision is characterized by active listening and thoughtful questioning by both parties. The role of the supervisor is to help the supervisee to answer her own questions and to provide the support and knowledge necessary to guide decision-making.
How would reflective practice be used in supervision?
An important element in reflective supervision is enabling staff to question their practice, critically analyse and evaluate experiences, and debrief after challenging or stressful encounters. This will lead to a better understanding of the cognitive and emotional elements of practice.
What are the benefits of reflective supervision?
Reflection. Reflection means stepping back from the immediate,intense experience of hands-on work and taking the time to wonder what the experience really means.
How to hone your skills as a reflective practitioner?
– Self-questioning – ask yourself questions that help you examine the impact of your practice – Experiment – try out new ideas and approaches to create new learning opportunities. – Have a conversation – discuss your ideas with a colleague. – Give it structure – explore our own resources on reflection to support your practice.
What are principles of reflective practice?
Make time to reflect.
How to give good supervision?
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