English 101 Reflective Report Essay Help-TESOL self-reflections are an important source of personal professional development and growth
Reflective Practice is an important tool in practice-based professional learning contexts such as TESOL Certificate Internships in which individuals learn from their own professional experiences rather than from formal teaching. The concept of Reflective Practice centers around the idea of learning from doing, and it is used to promote leaders and independent professionals who are continuously engaged in the critical reflection of their own actions, emotions, experiences, and responses in their professional work (Paterson&Chapman, 2013). Your TESOL self-reflections are an important source of personal professional development and growth. By paying attention to and examining your own professional practice and actions, you open the door to developmental insight. As Boud et al (1985) state: "Reflection is an important human activity in which people recapture their experience, think about it, mull it over and evaluate it. It is this working with experience that is important in learning." So, in order for us to develop personal professional insight this semester, we are going to use a model of self-reflection that has been adapted from Graham Gibbs’ 1988 Reflective Cycle and Gary Rolfe’s 2001 Reflective Model. Step 1: Think about your internship work for this week. Step 2: Focus on specific situations, activities, interactions or tasks that stand out to you. Describe them. Don’t make judgments or try to draw conclusions just yet; simply describe what happened from an "outsider" perspective. Step 3: Now, take the time to critically explore and evaluate your own actions, reactions, experiences, and responses in these situations, activities, interactions or tasks. (If you are a tutor in the L2 writing classroom or at ASU Global Launch, you are welcome to explore the actions of the teacher(s) who you are observing as well.) Everyone should make connections between theory (based on the Teaching by Principles course text and/or scholarly work from other TESOL and/or English courses and readings) and their own internship practice. What was positive for you in these situations, activities, interactions or tasks and WHY, and if applicable, what was challenging for you and WHY (this doesn’t necessarily mean "negative"; it can mean challenging in a motivating way)? Step 4: What did you learn from your internship this week? Is there something that you would do differently next time? (If you are a tutor in the L2 writing classroom or at ASU Global Launch, is there something that you would like to see the teacher(s) do differently next time?) Side note: this class for communication intermediate level 1 Note: you need to pretend that you are observing at an English class for second language learners. Also, you are an English major. Make sure that you follow the steps above and make the paper pretty easy to understand and follow. Note: You are not teaching the class but you are observing. The level of the learners is basic number 2.
