Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher

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The second edition that is being reviewed here saw the light of day in 2017, more than two decades after the first. Educators with the courage to challenge their own assumptions in an effort to improve learning are the invaluable role models our students need. In his own personal voice Stephen Brookfield draws from over 45 years of experience to illustrate the clear benefits of critical reflection. The CIQ has surprised me on numerous occasions in which I thought I was "bombing" a teaching session. This is the second Brookfield book that I have read, after starting with his revised edition of The Skillful Teacher (2015).

Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education, he is the author of numerous books on teaching, including The Skillful Teacher (2015), Teaching for Critical Thinking (2011), and The Discussion Book (with Stephen Preskill) (2016), all from Jossey-Bass. At the very point that I thought I was failing, numerous students gave feedback that suggested the opposite. Stephen Brookfield—the award-wining educator and bestselling author—explains how to confront the contradictions involved in creating democratic classrooms by using critical reflection as a tool for ongoing personal and professional development. Most appealing is Brookfield's openness to how the various techniques may be individually tailored by educators to fit unique situations. It earned rave reviews after its initial publication, and several friends recommended it highly to me years ago.Targeting faculty at all levels and across disciplines, this personal guide explores how practicing critical reflection can help align faculty with desired student outcomes, to view their practice from new perspectives, and engage learners by using varied teaching formats. Chapter 4 continues the discussion of the autobiographies and describes a number of practical approaches for doing autobiographical reflection. Chapter 6 outlines the critical incident questionnaire and gives a case study illustration of its use. Assumptions guide practice and only when we base our actions on accurate assumptions will we achieve the results we want. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Chapter 1 lays out the concept of reflection in general terms and then focuses on explaining what is distinctive about critical reflection. Filled with illustrative examples from a wide variety of classroom settings, the volume explores in detail what critical reflection is and why it is so vital for becoming a skillful teacher. Filled with practical tools and expert insight, this volume helps facilitate a journey of constructive self-critique.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. All chapters have been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect today's classroom formats, whether online or face-to-face, or in large lectures or small groups. What I love about this simple, anonymous survey is that it provides clear insight into how students experience my teaching. All chapters have been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect today’s classroom formats, whether online or face-to-face, or in large ­lectures or small groups. One particular dimension of this book that has served me well as a teacher is the Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ).