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For Your Hands: Self-Assessment & Reflection for Ss

Ways to engage students in this powerful practice.

1. Reflection journals: provide regular opportunities for students to assess their own progress or performance on assignments, in class, towards mastery, or towards set goals, and to reflect on what behaviors, strategies and habits are helping them or hindering them.

2. Self-Assessment checklists: provide students with a list of elements or areas to assess. This may be a recurring list that remains largely the same or may change with course content.

3. Rubrics: in addition to including students in the process of developing rubrics for class assignments, giving them the opportunity to assess their own work using the rubric will help them build a mindset of self-assessment and reflection.

4. Writing/work conferences: ask students to reflect on their work with you, addressing what they think they did well, what could have been better, goals for next time, etc. Such a conference could easily follow their use of rubrics or checklists to engage in some self-assessment.

5. Quiz/test reflection: following a test or quiz, have students look at what challenges they had, reflecting on [some of] the problems they missed, and describing what mistake they made and how to correct it.

For Your Heart: Student Self-Assessment

For Your Head: Self-Assessment & Reflection for Ts
(Taken from 5 benefits of encouraging teacher self-reflection, by Kate Herbert-Smith, )

“We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience.”- John Dewey

One of the most important and effective ways to build teacher excellence is through reflective practice. And, according to John Hattie's work, building teacher excellence "has the single most powerful influence on student achievement" (Herbert-Smith, 2015, par 1).

"Reflective practice is ‘learning through and from experience towards gaining new insights of self and practice’ (Finlay, 2008). Reflective teaching is a personal tool that teachers can use to observe and evaluate the way they behave in their classroom. It can be both a private process as well as one that they discuss with colleagues and/or leaders.

When teachers collect information regarding activities in their classrooms and take the time to analyze them from a distance, they can identify more than just what worked and what didn’t. They will be able to look at the underlying principles and beliefs that define the way  that they work. This kind of self-awareness is a powerful ally for a teacher, especially when so much of what and how they teach can change in the moment.

5 benefits of being a reflective teacher

Professional growth: Firstly and most importantly, reflective practice is the key to improvement. If teachers don’t think about, analyze and evaluate their professional practice they cannot improve. Also once teachers start to take ownership of their PD in this way, their confidence grows.
Keeping up-to-date and innovative: Just as you wouldn’t want to be operated on by a surgeon who wasn’t familiar with the latest techniques, we probably won’t want to be taught by someone who doesn’t know their subject or the best ways of teaching and learning. Reflective practice allows teachers to create and experiment with new ideas and approaches to gain maximum success.
Understanding learners: Reflective practice encourages teachers to understand their learners and their abilities and needs. Reflection helps teachers to put themselves in their students shoes, which is something many skilled teachers do. Stephen Brookfield believes that: ‘Of all the pedagogic tasks teachers face, getting inside students heads is one of the trickiest. It is also the most crucial’ (Brookfield, 1995).
Developing reflective learners: Reflective teachers are more likely to develop reflective learners. If teachers practice reflection they can more effectively encourage learners to reflect on, analyze, evaluate and improve their own learning. These are key skills in developing them to become independent learners.
Humility: When we reflect we must be honest. At least honest with ourselves about our choices, our success, our mistakes, and our growth. Meaning that self-reflection acts as a constant reminder to teachers to stay humble and continue working hard to achieve results."