Even though I consider myself a
reflective practitioner of anything that I do, I had a great deal of trouble
with this topic in particular. If anything, it was not something that was
created within me due to a positive experience with education as opposed to a
negative one. My constant anxiety over poor performance has spurred the most
fastidious aspects of my learning attitude (sometimes to my own detriment).
Even though my reflective practice was given birth from dubious circumstances,
I do believe that it has been an important element in my success, and it should
be for anyone who wants to find academic or professional success.
The
difficulty for me would be to find a way to teach the mentality of reflective
practice to students, but without having to imbue it within them via trauma. In
the field of childhood education, it may be beneficial for instructors to learn
the strengths and weaknesses of every student, and simply to communicate it to
them on a regular basis, and maybe encouraging them to overcome them.
Regardless, this may not be the most efficient method as young children are
likely unable to even understand the methodology behind the self-reflection
needed to benefit from the exercise. In the end, the solution may be to
represent reflection visibly through an “Interaction, Seeing, and Drawing
chart.” Instead of asking young students to look within themselves, it can be
liberating for teachers to find an effective way to “show” them. However, I
would say that there is a long way to go on this particular field and it is one
of the avenues that I look forward to going down in the future as it grows.
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