Session 5:
Review, Reflection and Action Planning (3.5)

Objectives

This session introduce into tools for recording and organising reflections.

Outcomes

After this session the participant will:

• Have reveiwed and reflected on their performance in an interview or presentational situations and updated their ePortfolio with their reflections;
• Have constructed an action plan that focuses on what they need to do to prepare for their next interview or presentational situation and what they need to do to prepare their students to prepare for interview or presentational situations;
• Have explored the role that student self-reflection might play in the interview or presentational situation process and considered strategies that might be used to encourage students to select and present evidence of self review and reflection;
• Have investigated how the MOSEP resources could be used to support their teaching;
• Developed an awareness of the available research and good practice relating to the use of presentational ePortfolios;

Activity

Discuss the role that learner self-reflection might play in the interview or presentational situations process and consider strategies that might be used to encourage students to select and present evidence of self review and reflection.

The following questions may be helpful:

• What effect had your own self-reflection on your planning of further presentations or interviews?
• Are there things you would like to write down, for remember the next time you have to prepare a presentation?
• Can you transfer your experiences from your presentation to other tasks you have to handle in your life?
• With all the preparation in the former sessions, which aspects you handled better and which worse than in former presentations?Self reflection requires questions you have to ask yourself. Try to find useful ones and compare your experiences with former ones, even if it was a completly different context.

Activity

Reflect on your personal performance in the End of Module Presentation and discuss:

• The challenges and issues
• What learners might find difficult?
• What support they might need?

After that, Identify what a range of different students might find:

• Challenging,
• Motivating or
• What strategies might help.

Activity

• Construct an action plan that focuses on what you need to do to prepare for your next interview or presentational situations .
• Prepare a checklist that you could follow to help your students prepare for an interview or presentational situations .