2.1 Reflective Learning Skills
Instructor Preparation and Summary
This unit focuses on teaching students the importance of being a reflective learner. Two models of reflective learning have been highlighted in this unit. Instructors can choose which model is most appropriate for each unique learner.
The principles of Universal Design for Learning are incorporated into the variety of activities in this unit.
The resources in this unit will help some learners to:
- Define Reflective Learning and its importance in lifelong learning.
- Discuss two models of Reflective Learning.
- Practice using a Reflective Learning model in a journal throughout the term.
- Demonstrate their knowledge of Reflective Learning by completing an interactive quiz.
Classroom Activities
Videos
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Applied Learning Assessments
Text Description
- Do the Reflective Learning quiz
- Do the Reflective Learning quiz
- Complete the Kolb’s Reflection Journal at least once a month for the term.
- Do the Reflective Learning Quiz
- Complete the Kolb’s Reflection Journal at least once a week for the term.
Reflective Learning Quiz
Complete the reflective learning quiz below. There are a total of 5 questions. Take a screenshot of your final score at the end and submit it to the instructor.
Quiz Text Description
- Learning in a mirror
- Learning how to use a mirror
- Learning from our mistakes
- none of the answers listed
- reflect
- experience
- questions
- memory
- learn
3. Ordering Activity
Place the steps of Kohl’s model of reflection into the proper order:
- Observation
- Testing Ideas in Practice
- Experience
- Development of Ideas
4. Matching Activity
Match the steps in Kolb’s model with the correct meaning for each step:
- Observation
- Testing Ideas in Practice
- Experience
- Development of Ideas
- What happened?
- Try the ideas you have come up with to correct the mistake, and ask yourself, “Did they work?”.
- When you think about the situation, what things might have led to the mistake that was made?
- What are some ideas that you can think of to do differently next time so the same mistake doesn’t happen again?
- you think about an experience that has already happened and what you would do differently next time
- none of the above
- you think about the experience as you are having it and act immediately on what you decide to do
- you try to forget about the experience because it was embarrassing
Solution:
- c. Learning from our mistakes
- When we reflect, we ask ourselves new questions and try to make sense out of the experience and what happened. This leads to putting what we learn into deeper memory.
- Experience, Observation, Development of Ideas, Testing Ideas in Practice
- When you think about…, What happened…, What are some ideas…, Try the ideas you have…
- a. you think about an experience that has already happened and what you would do differently next time
Instructor Tools
Slide Deck:
- Unit 2.1 Reflective Learning Skills(MS PowerPoint)
- Unit 2.1 Reflective Learning Kolbs Model (MS PowerPoint)
