Sunday, March 21, 2010

Reading educational leadership(Simon Hole and Grace Mcentee)

In this article there are two educational reflection ways in order to improve our educational theories and practice. One is 'using Guided Reflection Protocol.' and the other is Critical Incidents Protocol.'
They said "the former is a way to find the meaning within the mundane." It is to reflect alone without other tearchers' help. So private experiences are very important as a teacher. Here Simon and Grace said " Being a teacher means learning to live within some pressure, learning from the decisions i make and learning to make better dicisions. " The latter is a way of reflection as a group two or more because schools are social areas. So tearchers they can choose one main story and exchange many questions and answers to seek the proper solution about the problem in the story. They can help each other and get many ways to solve it.
Through Guideed Reflection Protocol process, we can reach a deep thought to go forward to practice individually. But i think our thoughts in person are very limited. Without other helping ways we can always commit faults. But at that time we can't recognize our faults. Through Critical Incidents Protocol, we can gather many various solutions. It can be very helpful. But whenever we meet some problems, we should meet somewhere. We have to wait for much time to put together those answers.
So i think If we can use these two ways properly, it is very efficient and suitable for the school areas. Here John Dewey said " Every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experience."(p.37 Experience and Education, 1938) I think that's absolutely right. As a teacher we have had so many varieties of experiences until now. We ought to reflect our experiences for the practice and theory developement all the time.

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