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BECOMING A CRITICALLY REFLECTIVE TEACHER

BECOMING A CRITICALLY REFLECTIVE TEACHER. Hunting Assumptions Stephen Brookfield. ASSUMPTIONS. Paradigmatic - structuring, framing, taken as reality Prescriptive - how we and others should behave Causal - if we do this then that will happen POWER (ours & others)

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BECOMING A CRITICALLY REFLECTIVE TEACHER

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  1. BECOMING A CRITICALLY REFLECTIVE TEACHER Hunting Assumptions Stephen Brookfield

  2. ASSUMPTIONS • Paradigmatic - structuring, framing, taken as reality • Prescriptive - how we and others should behave • Causal - if we do this then that will happen POWER (ours & others) HEGEMONY (killing us softly)

  3. ASSUMPTIONS OF TEACHING • Good Practice = Whatever Helps Students Learn • Best Teaching is Critically Reflective • Most Important Knowledge Teachers Need to Do Good Work : How Students Experience Learning & Teaching

  4. AN ADULT APPROACH TO TEACHING • RESPECT • RESEARCH • RESPONSIVENESS

  5. EXPERIENCING LEARNING • IMPOSTORSHIP • CULTURAL SUICIDE • LOST INNOCENCE • INCREMENTAL FLUCTUATION • COMMUNITY

  6. FOUR LENSES ON PRACTICE AUTOBIOGRAPHY STUDENTS’ EYES COLLEAGUES’ PERCEPTIONS THEORY

  7. WHAT ADULTS APPRECIATE CREDIBILITY • Expertise • Experience • Rationale • Conviction

  8. WHAT ADULTS APPRECIATE AUTHENTICITY • Congruence • Full Disclosure • Responsiveness • Personhood • Error (Suitably Timed)

  9. CRITICAL INCIDENT QUESTIONNAIRE (C.I.Q.) • Most Engaged Moment • Most Distancing Moment • Most Helpful Action • Most Puzzling Action • What Surprised You

  10. WHY C.I.Q.’s ? • Problems Warned • Grounds Actions • Student Reflectivity • Builds Trust • Diverse Methods • Critical Thinking

  11. MODELING CRITICAL REFLECTION • Talking Out Loud • Critical Incident Questionnaire • Journaling • Assumption analysis • Speaking in Tongues • Structured Devil’s Advocacy

  12. GUIDELINES • Modeling • Building the Case • Peers as Reflective Mirrors • Focus on Specific Experiences • An Incremental Movement Closer to the Direct Examination of Personal Experience

  13. Exercises • Scenario Analysis • Crisis Decision Simulations • Heroes/Heroines & Villains/Villainesses • Critical Conversation Protocol (Storyteller, Detectives, Umpire) • Good Practices Audit

  14. www.stephenbrookfield.com Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 1995) The Power of Critical Theory: Liberating Adult Learning and Teaching (Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2005)

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