Critical Models
Critical Models of Reflection
A reflective teacher who looks only at her own technique can grow as a craftsperson and still miss the bigger questions. Whose interests does the teaching serve? Which assumptions are baked into the lesson? The models in this chapter all push reflection past technique into the assumptions, power relations, and ethical commitments that sit underneath it.
Four lenses on practice: self, students, peers, and theory, with the critical incident questionnaire as a tool
Look in, look out: a structured set of cues that surface aesthetics, ethics, and personal response
Three questions: what, so what, now what, run as descriptive, theoretical, and action levels
Presence, description, analysis, experimentation, with movement back and forth between stages
Four kinds of reflection: academic, developmental, social reconstructionist, and personal
The six-stage cycle that names feelings as a stage of its own and ends in an action plan
Last updated on • Talha