Reflective Practice to Improve Schools: An Action Guide for Educators

by Jennifer York-Barr, William A. Sommers

Includes insights on the essentials of designing and developing reflective practices and examples of reflective practice at the individual level, between partners, in small groups, and schoolwide.

Genres: Professional Development, Education

194 pages, Paperback

First published June 27, 2001

Reviews

[Pei Pei]

This is nothing earth-shattering, but does provide some good reminders/refreshers and decent frameworks and examples of how to start trying to implement reflective practices in schools. It feels a lot longer than it needs to be, and parts of it were a little cheesy/overwrought, but it wasn't a waste of time (though I found the diagram of the reflective practice spiral that they reprinted a million times throughout the book a waste of space as it was virtually meaningless as a graphic). I actually did like that they allotted a page for personal reflections and notes at the end of each chapter, though - it embodied the central idea in the book and from a practical standpoint, it was helpful when reading this book on the go.

[angrykitty]

omg......at my last job, i never never never had to read a book for work. i mean, i read things that i thought would help, but i was never given actually reading homework. now though...here's another book i'm reading for work. i'm just be becoming a really good teacher :)

this book was really boring. it had some good things in it, but the writing and presentation of information was so dry, i don't know how much i've actually taken from it.