This document discusses reflective practices and outlines several key elements of effective reflection. It addresses different types of reflection, such as reflection-in-action, reflection-on-action, and reflection before and after. The document also discusses best classroom practices for reflection, including modeling and sharing reflections, developing specific rubrics and vocabulary, and responding accordingly. It emphasizes that reflection must be problem-based and social or collaborative in order to avoid "mis-educative moments" and truly engage critical thinking.

1. Reflective Practices

2. Let’s Reflect Exercise: Write about a difficulty you’ve encountered when assigning reflection to your students? Set your writing aside. Pay attention to us.

3. What We Did This Summer Eportfolios past and present Learning portfolio versus presentation portfolios (transfer skills) Portfolio or not, knowing the best practices of reflection itself matters

4. Mis-educative Moments According to Dewey, a “mis-educative moment” occurs when students perform a task that should require critical thinking but doesn’t. In other words, if students reflect on their writing in routine ways that don’t engage them, they end up learning to avoid thinking. “Mis-educative moments” can teach the opposite of critical thinking.

5. It turns out. . . There’s more to reflection than we thought. . . We can do it better. . . We’re Sweetland. . . Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.

6. The Most Important Elements of Reflective Practices Must Be Problem-Based Social/Collaborative Genre Not a Form

7. Different Kinds of Reflection There are different types or hierarchical levels of reflection,” for instance from feelings to descriptions to analysis to action plan. Reflection-in-Action Reflection-on-Action Before and After

8. Best Classroom Practices Model and Share Develop Specific Vocabulary and Rubrics Respond Accordingly

9. Let’s Reflect! Remember our first question? “Write about a difficulty you’ve encountered when assigning reflection to your students?”What isn’t working about in this prompt? How could this prompt have been improved?

10. Final Reflection: Make it Work Turn to your partner, and talk through the problem you remember encountering. What would you do differently based on these principles?