Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Featuring engaging narratives, this "how-to" book delves into reflection as a concept and provides specific, replicable tools for professional practice. Each chapter draws on a particular school situation demonstrating the value of teacher reflection and describing the nuts and bolts of the process, including protocols for handling many different circumstances.
Written by public school teachers who offer lessons learned and strategies that work, this volume:
- Provides insights to help teachers build reflective practice with their students, including protocols for classroom problem solving.
- Presents scenarios for individual students, their parents, and teachers to talk together about a student's performance, including protocols for conducting family meetings.
- Shows what can happen when teachers come together to share stories of their daily lives, including protocols for conducting a focus group.
- Offers advice for reflecting alone and with a group, including protocols for both types of reflection.
- Tells stories of parents, a university supervisor, a district administrator, and a policymaker engaged in the process of reflection, including protocols for collaborative assessment.
Table of Contents
Changing the blame game / JoAnne Dowd -- The presentation: examining students at work / Jan Grant -- When students reflect together: Socratic discussions / Jon Appleby -- Student-centered meetings: a protocol for working with families / Peggy Silva -- Storytelling and the art of reflective conversation / Simon Hole -- Reflection is at the heart of practice / Simon Hole and Grace Hall McEntee -- Linking student learning to teacher practice through critical friends groups / Peggy Silva -- All together now: reflection as a community activity / Simon Hole -- New territories / Jan Grant -- More than one kind of sandwich: a district begins a conversation about reflective practice / JoAnne Dowd -- Growing reflective practitioners / Grace Hall McEntee.