Nishele Lenards
Reflective Conversation - Internship
What captures your attention?
"Rather than keep a general diary of what happens during your internship, choose a single event that is thought provoking.
For each formal reflection follow the pattern of analyzing a memorable event that occurs during your internship".
Activating and Engaging
Contextual Information
• As you reflect on this event, what are some things that come to mind?
Information About the Event
• What are some of the factors that influenced what happened?
Presenting Issues/Concerns
• Given your reflections, what are some of the things that capture your attention?
Perspectives and Perceptions
• What are some of the things you are noticing about your own reactions to this event?
Exploring and Discovering
Weigh Priorities
• Given your impressions, what might we focus on that will be most useful to you?
Search for Patterns
• As you reflect on this event, what are some patterns of which you are aware?
Compare/Contrast
• How might you describe any differences between what you anticipated and what occurred?
Analyze Cause-Effect Relationships
• Choose one significant element in this event. What might have been some of the things that caused that?
Organizing and Integrating
Connections
• What are some of the ways that this experience fits within the larger picture for this year?
Generalizations
• Based on this experience, what advice would you give to someone about to do something similar?
Applications
• What are some of the things that you are taking away from this experience that will influence your practice in the future?
Personal Learning
• What are some of the things you are learning about (yourself, your students, this curriculum, this unit, this aspect of your teaching?)
Copyright 2008 by Nishele Lenards