Why do I need to become a reflective practitioner?
Reflective practitioner, just what is that? Someone who is a reflective practitioner is someone who looks back at what they do, and their work process. With this knowledge in their heads, they then can consider how they can improve. They ‘reflect’ on work that they have previously done. Everyone should strive to become a reflective practitioner but the question is why? Before we can answer this though, we must know what a reflective practitioner looks like.
A reflective practitioner looks like… A reflective practitioner can look like anyone in the street. They must be reflecting on the work that they have completed, whether it is on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis. Generally speaking, the best people in each profession are ones who are reflective practitioners, and if we are trying to be the best person in our profession we must also be a reflective practitioner. Okay, now we know what a reflective practitioner looks like, we can look at why everyone (yes, that includes you and I) should be striving to become one.
Why am I striving to become a reflective practitioner? I believe that it is important for me to strive to become a reflective practitioner because I want to learn from my previous work to become a better and more well-rounded teacher in my future profession. One of the ways to become the best teacher in my chosen school would be to become a reflective practitioner and become better at that than all the other teachers at said school. Thanks for reading.
Hi Ben, very interesting post on being a reflective practitioner. I really like how you have not only included the basics of what is needed to be reflective practitioner, but how you have also suggested that it will be very effective for you in your future profession as a teacher. However, the only thing I would suggest is to provide some resources that would support your arguments. Good job :)
