The first introductory session we had with BL we were introduced to the works of David Tripp‚ Stephen Brookfield and Donald Schon which focused on critical thinking and self-reflection in teaching and learning environment. We as a group were given Stephen Brookfield’s “four lenses” document to review. In summary Stephen Brookfield states that for a teacher to become critically reflective there are three inter-related phases that are involved: 1. Discovering the assumptions that guide our decisions
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interaction with students‚ colleagues‚ establishment and community‚ as well as their personal and professional selves. Brookfield (2017) provides four lenses through which to reflect critically on our practice as a teacher: through our student’s eyes; through our colleague’s eyes; through our personal experience; and through theoretical literature. Brookfield’s four lenses are a cogent framework upon which to construct reflective practice particularly as a high school science and mathematics
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Using Brookfield’s four lenses critically reflect on your practice and identify one key assumption that impacted on your teaching while on school placement. Using evidence from Brookfield’s lenses explain how this assumption led to ‘teaching innocently’ and outline how you modified your practice to address this. 1. Introduction. Apparently‚ being a student teacher can sometimes make you vulnerable in the classroom. It can make you look naive and innocent in front of students and almost leaves you
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According to Rushton and Suter (2012)‚ Brookfield categorised assumptions into paradigmatic‚ prescriptive and causal. The most difficult assumption to uncover is paradigmatic assumptions. These types of assumptions are “the structuring assumption we use to order the world into different categories” (Rushton and Suter‚ 2012‚ p.31). Usually we don’t even remember them as assumptions‚ even after they’ve been indicated to us. Prescriptive assumptions are “what we think ought to happen in a given situation”
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about teaching and learning by using the four lenses available to them: students’ eyes‚ colleagues’ perceptions‚ educational literature‚ and teachers’ autobiographical experiences as learners. Viewing classroom practice through these four lenses helps teachers make more informed judgments and take more informed actions‚ in community college classrooms. Using the Lenses of Critically Reflective Teaching in the Community College Classroom Stephen D. Brookfield Community college classrooms represent
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From Brookfield Place Ensues High Fashion & Hot Debate The question of whether malls are in or out in Manhattan has been hotly contested since Brookfield Place‚ a luxury mall in downtown Manhattan‚ sprung up directly across from Ground Zero. Even as a Real Estate investor‚ I can relate to both sides of this argument‚ especially when bringing it down to the basic question of what exactly constitutes a mall? As Adam Bonislawski relates in his Observer article‚ there seems to be some question over
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Supplemental Two Critical Thinking Week Two – Learning Activity #5 Introduction 2 Recognizing Critical Thinking 2 Critical thinking is a productive activity. 2 Critical thinking is a process. 2 Manifestations of critical thinking vary. 2 Critical thinking results from positive and negative trigger points. 3 Critical thinking is emotional and rational. 3 Components of Critical Thinking 4 Component 1: Identifying and challenging assumptions. 4 Component 2: Recognizing
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peng (Gary) Brookfield Airport Deadline: 28 March 2013 1084words Contents Page 1. Executive summary----------------------------3 2. Introduction---------------------------------------3 3. Findings--------------------------------------------4 4. Conclusion----------------------------------------5 5. Recommendations-----------------------------6 6. Reference----------------------------------------9 Brookfield Airport Executive
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Lenses by Annie Dillard Annie Dillard wrote on her experience with analyzing other forms of life. She inadvertently discovered that she and other human beings were not alone in the world. She described her different views of the world by either using a microscope‚ to see a world too small to see with the naked eye‚ or binoculars‚ to see a world that appears to be sightly never ending. Dillard recalls as a child obbessing over watching the algae in her “child’s microscope set”. She was so
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Strategic Lenses: Strategic lenses are a concept of strategic management. They are the four angles from which strategy can be viewed and implemented on a corporate level. There are 4 strategic lenses: Strategy as Design Strategy as Experience Strategy as Variety (Ideas) Strategy as Discourse Strategy as Design: Is the view that strategy development can be a logical process in which economic forces and constraints on the organization are weighed carefully through analytic and evaluative
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