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- What surprised you? I love this question. Surprise invites mystery and intrigue. It also helps your students look for deeper meaning below the surface of a learning experience.
- What’s changed for you? Whether dissecting a provocative piece of literature, or reflecting on a collaborative activity or project, this question helps students see how they have grown and changed in the process of learning.
- What was your biggest takeaway? Ask this question and you will discover how to better personalize experiences for learners. You will know which part of the learning experience to keep, and what to reconsider for next time.
- What challenges did you encounter, and how did you overcome them? For me, the second part of this question is most powerful. It’s easy for us to get stuck on challenges, god knows we encounter several daily, but by focusing on our creative solutions, we (and our students) develop new mindsets to deal with future challenges.
- Examples of Reflective Learning
- The Benefits of Reflective Learning
- How to Be Reflective in Your Learning
- Reflective Learning and Reflective Practice
- Summary and Conclusions
An example of reflective learning is a person who starts a new hobby, and asks themself how well they’re learning the new information that comes with the hobby, whether there are any gaps in their knowledge, and which learning strategies they enjoy using the most. Other examples of reflective learning appear in various domains, both in academia and...
There are many potential benefits to reflective learning: 1. It can help you assess your situation, for example by prompting you to identify gaps in your knowledge and areas where you need to improve. 2. It can help you figure out how to improve your learning process, for example by prompting you to figure out which learning techniques work well fo...
Being reflective in your learning means thinking about what you’re learning and how you’re learning it, in a way that helps you understand yourself and your learning better. There are several things that you can reflect on: 1. Your understanding of the material.For example, how well you understand certain concepts. 2. Your understanding of how to i...
Reflective practiceinvolves actively analyzing your experiences and actions, in order to help yourself improve and develop. The terms reflective learning and reflective practice refer to similar concepts, and because their definitions vary and even overlap in some cases, they are sometimes used interchangeably. Nevertheless, one possible way to dif...
Reflective learninginvolves actively monitoring and assessing your knowledge, abilities, and performance during the learning process, in order to improve the process and its associated outcomes.For example, if you’re studying for a test, you can engage in reflective learning by asking yourself how well you understand each of the topics that you’re studying, and based on this figure out wh...Reflective learning has various potential benefits, including helping learners assess their situation and improve their learning process, helping learners understand themselves and develop their me...You can reflect on various aspects of your learning, including your understanding of the material, your understanding of how to implement what you’ve learned, your learning process, and your abilit...With a group. With someone more experienced. Throughout life you are likely to end up having many senior individuals who facilitate reflection as a part of your development. You can also help shape those relationships by suggesting reflection, if they do not support you in that way naturally.
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- FREEDOM TO CHOOSE. No matter what type of learning you provide, it's likely that at some point, your learners will feel disengaged or uninterested in what they're doing.
- EXPERIENCE – REFLECT – REPEAT. Let me paint you a picture: A young man moves out of his parents’ home for the first time and starts living on his own. He needs to learn how to budget his money, cook healthy meals, pay bills, etc.
- FEEDBACK IS KEY. Feedback allows learners to easily see the connection between their work and how it will benefit them. Receiving regular feedback is an excellent way to engage learners in their own learning because it gives them immediate results that they can see.
- OUTCOME AND PROGRESS. Some key things learners must know are: what they're supposed to learn; what their goals are; and how they're going to get there. When we talk about learning outcomes, we refer to the results that learners will get after the learning event is over.
Reflection is critical to both learning and transfer of learning back into the workplace. In the Peer Learning Group Model, the group members are asked to generalize how their learning can be extended to other situations.
A reflection is an account of learning at a point in time, which is impacted by such things as past experiences, culture, and current events. David Kolb describes how learning is a process
D.E.A.L. Gibbs' Model. EL Reflection Models.pdf. Activities. There are many ways of integrating reflection into courses and programs. Here are 4 versatile types of reflection activities that can be adapted to different experiential learning contexts. One-Minute Paper. Reflective Journal. Reflective Essay. Learning Portfolio (Comprehensive)
