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Revitalising Reflective Practice In Pre-Service Teacher Education: Developing And Practicing An Effective Framework, Pauline Roberts, Lennie Barblett, Fiona Boylan, Marianne Knaus
Revitalising Reflective Practice In Pre-Service Teacher Education: Developing And Practicing An Effective Framework, Pauline Roberts, Lennie Barblett, Fiona Boylan, Marianne Knaus
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
Reflective practice plays a significant role in effective teaching. However, for pre-service teachers (PSTs), it can be a difficult process to not only think reflectively but to understand its importance in their teaching practice. This research focused on the development of a framework for written reflective practice embedded within professional experience (PEx) units. In tutorials, PSTs were provided with video technology to film themselves performing teaching tasks. A reflective framework provided a structure to assist in reflecting on the teaching task. Dialogical teaching and coaching by tutors as well as peer discussion scaffolded the reflective process. At the end of …