Wrap up and reflection
Reflective Practice
Once you have submitted your final marks, congratulate yourself, know that we are grateful for your hard work, celebrate, relax, and then jot down some of your reflections on the experience.
- What, specifically, went well and why?
- What would you do differently next time?
- Are there things you want to learn, workshops you'd like to participate in?
Reflective practice is ‘learning through and from experience towards gaining new insights of self and practice’ (Finlay, 2008). Reflective practice is a cycle - teach, reflect on the impact your teaching had on learning, consider new ways of teaching to improve the quality of learning, put these ideas into practice, repeat.
The final course evaluation will give you a sense of what students thought of the course. If you still have access to Moodle you can see the evaluation results using the 'Evaluation Kit' block on your course homepage. If you no longer have access your Program Chair should reach out as soon as the report is complete. At this time you will have an opportunity to discuss those results and your own reflections with your Program Chair.
Additional Resources
- Getting Started with Reflective Practice
- Finlay, Linda (2008). Reflecting on ‘Reflective practice’. Practice-based Professional Learning Paper 52, The
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