One of the questions that has been asked in the Journals forum this week is:
What has helped you to come to an understanding of the role of reflection in learning? (this might be something you've read, a conversation you've had. It might have happened this week or many years previously).
Like many others on this course, I first had to consider this when building it into a course for trainee teachers - that was when I realised that I didn't know enough about it and decided to participate in the first run of this course to learn more.
However, what I have learned is that it is one thing to know something in theory, it is quite another to apply it in practice. I find the process difficult for myself. I think and reflect a lot about my own practice, but sometimes I think I am doing little more than evaluating. I find it difficult to dig deeper and follow things through. Some things I simply don't want to follow through - its much more comfortable to let them pass - maybe I miss real learning opportunities in doing this. Also - I am a 'busy' person, i.e. busy in nature, so no sooner has one thing happened than I am on to the next. I think and reflect a lot, but I don't 'mark' my reflection enough.
So sometimes I think my understanding of the role of reflection in learning has not developed very much, but I think I can recognise it when I see it.
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