Educator's Reflective Practice: Promoting Student Learning Through Professional Development (Second Edition)

Author: (USA) Ostman, (USA) Cort Kamp
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book is a guide on reflective practice. It explains the significance of reflective practice for school reform in clear and easy-to-understand language, providing various perspectives and strategies for reflective practice. It describes the process of reflective practice, showing educators how to effectively integrate reflective practice into the daily work of schools. It is suitable for use by teachers in primary and secondary schools, university teachers, educational administrators, and researchers. This book is one of the Contemporary Teachers' New Levers series and is a guide on reflective practice. Based on theoretical analysis, the authors have collected reflective practice cases from participants in research projects, combining them with the theoretical analysis in the first half for in-depth analysis. The selected cases in this book focus on common issues in schools, such as problematic students, bullying and victimization issues, and academic failure issues. The key point of the authors' analysis lies in how to conduct real and effective reflective practice on practical issues using the reflective practice cycle as the basic framework. It is suitable for use by teachers in primary and secondary schools, university teachers, educational administrators, and researchers.