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Round Table Discussion
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Group Discussion
1. How is reflection similar and different from critique and revision?
2. Some students struggle with reflection? How do we help them? 3. Would you say your classroom has a culture of reflection? Why or why not? 4. There are some common pitfalls in adding reflective exercises in the classroom. Have you ever done reflection wrong? If so, share anything you learned from the experience. |
Action and Assessment
Take a few minutes and rate the level of reflection in your PBL according to this rubric.
1. If your project lacks design elements that help students reflect during AND after the project, simply plan time to do so. Brainstorm a list of possible reflection activities and tie them into the project calendar. 21st Century Skills are hard to assess without some student reflection so take advantage of journals, blogs, class discussions, and other reflective strategies that can help them take the time to think.
2. Maybe you've had students complete class reflections, but they were less than desirable. How will you help students go deeper? Consider the following:
2. Maybe you've had students complete class reflections, but they were less than desirable. How will you help students go deeper? Consider the following:
- Model it for your students. Reflect out loud...often. Make it a normal practice to reflect.
- Conduct some whole class reflections so students can hear other students thinking deeply
- Give feedback on written reflections and ask them to go deeper. It's ok to drop a 40 on a reflection until they've given it adequate thought. Provide a few follow up questions to get them thinking deeper and then reward them for the extra thoughts.
- Provide sentence stems to get them started. If your first set of sentence stems didn't work, get a bit more specific. Sometimes "I learned that..." isn't going to produce great results. Try something like: how did this project make you a better team player, animator, and creator?
- Provide adequate time to reflect. It takes time to think. Make sure you provide enough time to do it. Reflection cannot be rushed.
- Narrow down the amount of reflection to a couple, focused questions. If you ask them to think deeply about five different huge, open-ended questions, it's probably too much. Reflection is fun, but it's really high level thinking and can get tiring. How long can you journal until you need to stop?