NAME: HIRBO GEREMEW HIRBO, GROUP: ONE

Unit Two: The Role of Reflection among Higher Education Teachers

Reflective Activity 4 - P. 12
1. What do reflection, reflective practice and reflective teaching mean to you?

 Reflection is looking back at an experience or a situation, and learning from it in order to improve
for the next time around.
 Reflective practice describes a systematic approach to reflection that involves creating a habit,
structure and routine around reflecting on our experiences.
 Reflective teaching is a process where teachers think over their teaching practices, analyzing how
something was taught and how the practice might be improved.
2. How well do you practice reflective thinking to deepen your own understanding and to
improve your teaching competence?
 Develop a questioning attitude and new perspectives
 Identify areas for change and improvement
 Respond effectively to new challenges
 Generalise and apply what you have learned from one situation to other situations
3. Based on your teaching experiences, give examples of reflection on, in and for action.
 Reflection in Action - Examples Here are some examples of Reflecting in Action from popular
culture: In Apollo 13, when the oxygen tanks are damaged, the astronauts have only minutes to set
up their lunar module, Aquarius, as a lifeboat. Meanwhile, engineers in Houston also have hours or
even minutes to decide quickly the choices that will help the crew come home.
4. How you handled the technical, practical and critical levels of reelection? Elaborate.
 Technical strives for replicability and neutrality, to capture objective data to build on pre-existing
knowledge; thus, assuming there is a trajectory towards truth and science can move us along.
 Practical is synonymous with qualitative; language, description and deeper understanding of
unique contexts is valued over generalizable results.
 A critical approach aligns with the objectives of the programs which the participants are developing
and implementing, potentially modeling useful techniques for the practitioners themselvleves.