How to Reflect on Teaching Practice: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
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Practices that may help
- Debrief each session with a structured reflection
Write a three-question debrief right after practice to convert experience into learning.
Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability - Build a weekly reflection ritual so the cycle runs regularly
Schedule a fixed reflection window so the four stages happen as a routine, not an afterthought.
Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice - Use structured debrief questions to guide any review
Replace "how did it go?" with specific questions that move through each stage of the cycle.
Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice - Reflect to turn experience into lessons
After a task, extract what to keep and what to change instead of just moving on.
Metacognition: Knowing What You Actually Know - Observe from multiple angles before drawing conclusions
Deliberately take different perspectives on the experience before deciding what it means.
Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice - Extract a generalizable principle from what you observed
After observing what happened, ask: "What general rule does this experience support or challenge?"
Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle: Learning by Doing and Reflecting - End every review with a single resolved next action
The review is incomplete until you name one specific thing you will do differently tomorrow.
The Pythagorean Evening Review - Structured Reflection: Kolb’s Learning Cycle in Practice
Structured reflection, built on David Kolb’s experiential learning cycle, turns raw experience into usable knowledge by moving deliberately through four stages: concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. Without structure, most experience passes without producing the insight it could; with it, every attempt generates a lesson that feeds the next one. - Post-session reflection
Immediately after a learning session, evaluate what you learned, what strategies worked, and what to do next.
Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn - Keep it brief and daily
Do a short Examen most days rather than a long one occasionally.
The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I finish a session and just move on without ever sitting down to name what actually worked and what didn’t
- I keep meaning to step back and take stock, but reflection always loses to whatever’s urgent
- When I ask myself “how did that go?” my mind just hands me the single best or worst moment and calls it done
- I rack up tons of experience but barely seem to get better, because the second one thing ends I’m already onto the next
- I replay what happened and I only ever see it from my own side
Related concerns
- Structured Reflection Skill Development
Write a three-question debrief right after practice to convert experience into learning.
Debrief each session with a structured reflection
- How Can Educators Use Critical Reflection
Write a three-question debrief right after practice to convert experience into learning.
- How To Facilitate Reflective Practice
Write a three-question debrief right after practice to convert experience into learning.
- How To Reflect On Practice
Write a three-question debrief right after practice to convert experience into learning.
- Structured Reflection
Schedule a fixed reflection window so the four stages happen as a routine, not an afterthought.
Build a weekly reflection ritual so the cycle runs regularly
- Study Reflection
Immediately after a learning session, evaluate what you learned, what strategies worked, and what to do next.
Post-session reflection
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