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Reflective Strategies for Professional Learning
Postgraduate | TAS-EDP726 | 2024
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 26 Feb 2024
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Reflective Strategies for Professional Learning
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Identify and describe a range of strategies for reflective practice
- Consolidate your understanding of the complex ways in which professional practice and reflective practice interact via your critical appraisal of relevant literature
- Critique, compare and evaluate a range of contemporary reflective strategies in context
- Communicate effectively with peers and in your academic writing
- Module 1: Approaches to Reflection
- Critical Reflection - What is critically reflective teaching?
- Johns' Model of Structured Reflection (MSR)
- An Introduction to Action Research
- Module 2: Making Reflection Critical
- Power and Assumptions
- Introducing the Four Lenses
- The Student Lens
- The Personal Lens
- The Colleague Lens
- The Theory Lens and Managing Risk
- Synthesising our learning: What is common to the different approaches to reflection?
This subject explores a range of contemporary strategies of reflective practice with a particular focus on their use in professional learning. An emphasis is placed on considering the role of reflection to bridge the divide between theory and practice for a broad range of workplace contexts. Topics covered in this subject include: the development of professional identity; reflective writing strategies; interdisciplinary communities of practice; frameworks for reflective practice; and an introduction to action research for practitioners.
- Personal Reflection on Professional Learning (40%)
- Critique and Evaluate Reflective Strategies and Approaches in a SOTL Context (50%)
- Reflection on Group Work (10%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- TAS-EDN-GCE-2024 - Graduate Certificate in Education
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateTAS-EDN-GCE