Leadership+in+Reflective+Practices

Welcome to our page for the 2nd Optional Break-out Session. Our presentation, Leadership in Reflective Practices, is offered during Session #2 on Tuesday, January 12th from 2:00-3:15 in Room 100F. Below you will find 1 example of a protocol that we will be discussing during our session time. Additional handouts will be given during the session to guide collaboration efforts in working with participants throughout the region. **4 Step Reflection Process** This tool can be used to guide reflection on action and to reflect on problem solving prior to taking action.
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Think about a significant event, interaction, or lesson that occurred in your school or classroom – with students or adults – that you feel is worth further reflection. You might choose to examine a positive experience, or you might choose a more unsettling and challenging experience. Now consider the following series of questions to prompt your thinking about the experience. You may wish to write down your thoughts. **1 WHAT HAPPENED? Description: ** What did I do? What did others do (students, adults?) What was going on around us? Where were we? When did it occur? Was there anything unusual to consider? What was the impact? **2 WHY? Analysis/Interpretation: ** Why do I think things happened in this way? Why did I choose to act the way I did? What was I thinking or feeling? Are there any other contributing factors? What are my hunches about why things happened the way they did? **3 SO WHAT? Overall meaning/application: ** Why did this seem like a significant event to reflect on? What have I learned from this? How could I improve? How might this change my future thinking, behaving, interactions? What questions remain? **4 NOW WHAT? Implications for action: ** Are there other people I should actively include on the reflecting on this event? If so, who? Next time a situation like this happens, what do I want to remember about it? How could I set up conditions to increase the likelihood of productive interactions and learning? //Source: Reflective practice to improve schools. Jennifer York ‐Barr, Williams Sommers, Gail S. Ghere, and Jo Montie (Thousand Oaks California: Corwin Press, 2001).//


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For More Information, Please Contact: Kelly Ingram, Education Specialist, Leadership Solutions Region 4 ESC kingram@esc4.net