I hear and I forget.

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• I hear and I forget.
• I see and I remember.
• I do and I understand.
• I reflect and I learn.
• Carmen Friesen, Tulare County Office of Education

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Reflection A Critical Component of Leadership
Jennifer Dove Peg MacDonald
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Aha!
Questions/ I wonder
Notes on Reflection
This reminds me of (Text to Self, Text to Text,
Text to World)
When writing reflective papers, I need to
remember to
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The major outcome of the Andrews Leadership
Program is an integrated person with a sense of
purpose who knows he/she is and what he/she can
accomplish.Dr. Shirley Freed
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Using Reflection in Your Program 1. IDP
Development Goals and vision based on beliefs
2. Competency Demonstration Summative papers
on competencies and practice 3. Portfolio
Presentation Integration of competencies with
each other and with your practice, synthesis
paper 4. Dissertation Literature review,
determination of methodology, analysis of data
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Think about a time when
Concept Map
What is reflection? (words, phrases, etc.)
Reflection is like _______________ because
_______________ ______________________.
Recognizing Reflection
What are the conditions needed for reflection?
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What is Reflection?
Rodin depicts The Thinker as a man in sober
meditation battling with a powerful internal
struggle. Does reflection always have to be
painful, solitary, and passive?
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Reflection Involves A state of doubt,
hesitation, perplexity, mental difficulty
Resulting in Searching, hunting, inquiring To
find material that will Resolve the doubt,
settle and dispose of the perplexity
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• Reflection is the ability to analyze information
• within a framework of beliefs.
• Dewey,1933
• Four stages of reflection
• Experience
• Observation and Reflection
• Abstract Reconceptualization
• Experimentation
• Kolb, 1984

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Reflection on Action and Reflection in Action
When good jazz musicians improvise together,
they similarly display reflection-in-action
smoothly integrated into ongoing performance.
Listening to one another and listening to
themselves, they feel where the music is going
and adjust their playing accordingly. A figure
announced by one performer will be taken up by
another, elaborated, and turned into a new
melody. Each player makes on-line inventions, and
responds to surprises triggered by the inventions
of the other players. Schon, 1987
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Reflective Judgment is the ability of
individuals to reason regarding ill-structured
problems. Stages of Reflective Judgment 1.
Pre-reflective 2. Quasi-Reflective 3.
Reflective Kitchener King, 1994
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Conditions that Support Reflection Doing..
active involvement and meaningful
context Modeling of others Culture of learning
and reflection Habit of mind Beliefs about
knowledge and learning Theory using concepts from
the literature
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Reflection and Theory Inform Practice Theory is
a practice that constantly is informing ones
beliefs, actions, and practices. Jose Alaby
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Interaction of theory, practice and reflection
experience
observation and reflection
improved practice
Reconceptualize using theory
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Theory Constructivist Knowledge is continually
reconstructed by individuals and groups The
Social Family Model
Theorists Dewey,Reflective thinking Phillips,
1995 3 roles in constructivist active learner,
the social learner and the creative learner
Vygotsky, Maxine Green, Piaget, Eisner,
Clandinine
Philosophy Pragmatism Any design may be useful
for illumination Reality is interpreted,
negotiated and consensual Existentialism
REFLECTIVE RESEARCHER
My Practices Multiple sources of data used to
verify findings Journals from students, rubrics
and reflection all used in teaching
My Beliefs There is subjectivity in both
quantitative and qualitative methodologies and
when recognized and put in context, this is fine
for research or evaluation purposes
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• A good reflection should
• Consider multiple perspectives
• Include a variety of data/evidence
• Evaluate information across different contexts
• Inform practice
• Demonstrate changes in own knowledge,
• repertoire, and practice
• Re-evaluate when there is new data or evidence
• Interpret information using evaluated opinions
  
• of reputable others theory, concepts

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Lets look at some examples of leadership
competency reflections
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Thinking critically involves our recognizing the
assumptions underlying our beliefs and behaviors.
It means we can give justifications for our
ideas and actions.
Stephen D. Brookfield Developing Critical
Thinkers Jossey-Bass, S.F. , 1987
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• Write on your note page some things that
• you might want to remember when reflecting.
• 2. What is your metaphor for reflection?
• (Complete the space in the middle of the
  Concept Map.)
• Reflection is like_________because________.