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Tools for reflection
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Lockdown Learning or Lifelong Learning?
This lesson challenge encourages learners to reflect on their lockdown learning, what they have learnt about themselves, and think about how they can use it.
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Developing Aspirations Lesson for StudentsThis challenge is for Year 11 or Year 12 students to think about their aspirations, how they are going to get there, their skills and how they can improve them and then use all that information to draft a personal statement.
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Journaling is a great tool for reflection. It serves as a permanent record of your student's thoughts and experiences and can be a safe outlet for their personal concerns. They can record their growth, development, and success. So when milestones are achieved, they can see the actions that led up to that success.
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The Kolb’s Learning Cycle is way to think about the way a learner approached and completed a piece of work. It helps them to understand what worked, what didn’t and explore other possibilities.
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This simple activity asks learners to look back at their day, think of 3 things that went well for you during the day and reflect upon each of them. Scientific research suggests that used regularly, each day for a week, it increases personal happiness.
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It encourages learners to write about three times in their life when they lost out on something important, and then consider what doors opened after these important doors closed.
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The Wheel of Life encourages learners to rank aspects of their life on a satisfaction scale. You can have a go interactively here:
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This activity helps learners breakdown problems and encourages them to think about how to move on from them.
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Rocks, Pebbles and Sand helps learners deepen their understanding of what really matters to them at this moment and how they might take one step towards prioritising in an even better way.
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The Ladder of Inference is a structured way of thinking about a problem, particularly good for groups and teams, and can help prevent learners making assumptions and jumping to conclusions too early in the process.
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The Power of Story is a structured method to think about an event or situation that a learner is worried about.
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The most effective teachers are able to reflect on what works well and what doesn’t work in their classroom. Teaching is challenging and time is scarce, so here are 10 quick questions to ask yourself at the end of a lesson to support your reflection process: