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Department of Education (Planning and Development) Course Title: Critical Thinking and Reflective Practices B.Ed. (Hons) Secondary Semester II Course Code: Maj/B.Eds-103 Credit Hours: 3 Course Description This course is designed to develop critically reflective professional practitioners. Reflective practice focuses on ethical conduct, resilience in crisis situations, high community engagement and the development of lifelong learning for professional growth. Learning Outcomes By the end of the course student will be able to: • Demonstrate an understand the meaning of reflective practice, and related literature • Reflect on classroom problems with help of reflective practices models • Analyze his/her strengths and weakness as reflective teachers using reflective practices approaches Course Outline Unit 1 Introduction of Critical Thinking 1.1 What is Critical Reflection? 1.2 Introduction to Critical Thinking 1.3 Critical Thinking Standards 1.4 Importance of Critical Thinking 1.5 Barriers to Critical Thinking 1.6 Characteristics of Critical Thinkers Unit 2 A Critical Thinking Framework 2.1 Core ideas about Thinking Skills 2.2 Critical Thinking development: A Stage Theory 2.3 A Schema for Critical Thinking and RP Unit 3 Recognizing, Analyzing, Evaluating the Arguments 3.1 What is an Argument? And what is not 3.2 Diagramming Short Argument 3.3 Summarizing Longer Arguments 3.4 Teaching Students to Narrate, Analyze, and Evaluate their own 'Points' Unit 4 Critical Analysis 4.1 Bloom’s Taxonomy and Critical Thinking 4.2 Techniques for Critical thinking 4.3 The 5-Step Model of Critical Thinking 4.4 Halpern’s Framework for Critical Thinking 4.5 Critical Incident Analysis 4.6 Examining your Personal Filtering System Unit 5 Conceptual Learning 5.1 Learning through Conceptual Innovation 5.2 Technical and Conceptual learning 5.3 Theory-in-use or Espoused Theories Unit 6 Introduction to Reflection 6.1 Meaning of reflection on practice/educational issues 6.2 Difference Between Reflection, Reflective Practice, Reflective Teaching 6.3 Link between Reflection and Reflective Practice 6.4 Types of Reflection 6.5 Typology of Reflection Unit 7 Becoming a Reflective Teacher 7.1 Experiential Learning as Reflection 7.2 Develop Critical Thinking Skills 7.4 Professional Competencies 7.5 Indicator of Reflective Practitioner Unit 8 Being a Reflective Teacher 8.1 Characteristics of Action Research 8.2 The Reflective Practitioner Engaging in Action Research 8.3 Reasons to do Action Research 8.4 Action Research for Continuous Improvement 8.5 Achieving best practice and its implication Unit 9 Process and Method of Reflection 9.1 Reflexivity 9.2 Brookfield critical lenses Unit 10 Major Proponents of Reflective Practice 10.1 John Dewey (1933) 10.2 Gibbs (1988) 10.3 Kolbs (1984) 10.4 Application of these Models Unit 11The Dialogic Process in Reflective Practice 11.2 Teaching Journal 11.3 Dialogic Diaries 11.4 The Academic Portfolio Evaluation Criteria Student will be evaluated on the basis of following criteria 1 Test 1(Unit 1 to 3) 10 2 Test 2(Unit 4 to 6) 10 3 Final Paper 65 4 Assignment/Quiz or presentation 5+5 5 Attendance 5 Total 100 Suggested Books Basshan, G., Irwin, W., Nardone, H., & Wallace, T. M. (2011). Critical thinking: A Student introduction (4th ed.). McGra hill. Brookfield, S. (2012). Teaching for Critical Thinking: Tools and Techniques to Help Students Question Their Assumptions. Jossey-Bass. [selected chapters] Bolton, G. (2010). Reflective practice: Writing and professional development (3rded.). Los Angeles: Sage. [selected chapters] Brookfield, S. D. (2017). Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher. Jossy-Bass. Brandenburg, R.,Glasswell, K., Jones, M., Ryan, J. (2017). Reflective Theory and Practice in Teacher Education. Springer. Cottrell, S. (2011). Critical thinking skills: Developing Effective Analysis & Argument. Palgrave Macmillan. Moon, J. (2008).Critical Thinking: An Exploration of Theory and Practice. Routledge. Myers, P.Z. (2018).The Teacher's Reflective Practice Handbook: Becoming an Extended. Routledge. Wink, J. (2011). Critical pedagogy: Notes from the real world (4th ed.). NJ, Pearson Education, Inc. [selected chapters] Thompson, S., & Thompson, N.(2013).The Critically Reflective Practitioner. Macmillan education, Palgrave. Pollard, A., & Collins, J. (2005). Reflective Practices.. (2nded.). Continum. Links https://Medium.com/@wandarossi/literature-review-5827db28764e Received 10-08-2019.

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course student will be able to: • Demonstrate an understand the meaning of reflective practice, and related literature • Reflect on classroom problems with help of reflective practices models • Analyze his/her strengths and weakness as reflective teachers using reflective practices approaches