Reflective Learning
REFLECTIVE LEARNING
Prior knowledge
Reflection activities used at the start of a topic or course can be a useful way of understanding and activating student’s prior knowledge.
Organisation
Reflection on an experience is an important stage in building deep and meaningful connections, it can also expose problems in knowledge organisation.
Motivation
You can help students increase future motivation by asking them to reflect on an activity and think about how they would adapt a future attempt.
Mastery
Reflective activities can be useful in helping students develop deeper understanding by reflecting on their experience to identify patterns or anomalies and generalize to larger principles.
Goal - directed
As part of the practice/feedback cycle, it’s important that students have the opportunity to reflect on feedback and plan how they will use it in the future.
Social & emotional
Reflection activities can be useful in helping students analyse their assumptions and biases as they develop their social identity.
Self - direction
Reflection is a critical part of a students path to becoming self directed learners. But, don’t assume that they have the metacognitive skills to do this by themselves.
