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What is reflective practice?
“Reflective teaching is the practice of colleagues joining together to observe and analyze the consequences for student learning of different teaching behaviors and materials in order to gain insights that will result in the continuous evaluation and modification of pedagogy.”
– Chapter 11: Professional Development and Reflective Practice By William Powell
- Are you thinking about how you can respond to the ways that digital technologies are changing how we learn, work and engage in daily life?
- Are you wondering about how a new resource, methodology or approach is working for learners?
Reflective practice can help us think through these questions and arrive at solutions.
Would you like to learn more about reflective practice?
AlphaPlus has created a website with a collection of reflective practice resources to support literacy educators develop a reflective process that works for them and the people they work with.
Would you like to engage in reflective practice with an AlphaPlus coach or a cohort of literacy practitioners?
- AlphaPlus coaches will work with you to create an individualized professional learning plan.
- As an Educator Network Blended Learning Program participant, you’ll join a cohort of Ontario literacy practitioners in a reflective-practice process and have access to both AlphaPlus knowledge and peer experience.
In the Educator Network Blended Learning program and Planning Your Digital Toolbox, participants have the option of working through the Reflections on teaching with digital technology workbook. Join us or try it our with your colleagues (sign in to a Google account and make a copy).
If you’re interested in using a reflective practice process to plan and explore digital technology for learning, please contact Tracey or the AlphaPlus coaches.
If you’d like a copy of the Reflective Practice for Literacy Practitioners site to use as a starting point to adapt and expand for use in your program, please get in touch. AlphaPlus can give you a copy and support you in learning how to use a website builder such as Google Sites or Weebly as online learning spaces for learners, staff and volunteers.
Presenters from three programs share how they are using YouTube and TikTok videos to engage learners.
Presenters from three programs share how they digitize and organize activities and learner files.
Presenters from three programs share how they use learning a management system in their programs.
Presenters from three programs share how they extend learning and critical thinking beyond virtual meetings.
Presenters from three programs share how they engage learners to collaborate remotely.
Presenters from three programs share how they create community and engage learners differently in video conferences.
These energizing and inspiring Zoom sessions showcase how innovative Ontario literacy program workers and instructors use digital tools and approaches to connect and work with learners and colleagues remotely.
Each session features guest presenters who share their approaches, strategies and tips followed by a Tech Q&A to explore some of the digital tools mentioned during the session.
Yet another inspiration to try something new to help my learners!
There is a vast amount of knowledge out there and to be able to listen to how people are using the various apps/tools was very informative.
It was such an informative couple of hours. Many bits of information stood out. The sharing of information was so exceptional.
In 2018, we decided that a guide on writing effective case notes for digital literacy training services would better support our work as coaches.
We hoped that our guide and our record of how we developed it might be useful to others working in literacy and basic skills (LBS) as they develop, enhance or extend their own system of sharing information through case notes.
Our main finding was that case notes on their own aren’t a solution to the dilemmas in our work, but there are two outcomes of the project that will make a positive contribution to the field: case studies and reflective practice.
Case studies became the Wayfinders Studio and reflective practice became the Educator Network (eNet).
Wayfinders Studio
Join literacy educators who are experimenting, piloting and reflecting on how digital technology can enhance learning.
AlphaPlus engaged 10 English-speaking literacy practitioners from community-based programs to explore the ways that LinkedIn Learning might fit into individual professional development plans for literacy and basic skills (LBS) managers and instructors.
Read the report to see what we learned about how LBS practitioners are learning in order to strengthen their practice and better support colleagues, program participants and community partners.
Our exploration of a particular platform led us to a wider look at how literacy practitioners engage in professional learning, what makes it effective and what they’d like to see in the future.
We think that their insights and recommendations are a powerful guide to creating effective professional learning opportunities that amplify scholarship in the field.