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Based on your practicum

experience in school, evaluate the
benefits of reflective journal
writing and portfolio management
in developing your higher order
thinking skills.
High order Thinking Skills Higher order thinking skills include
(HOTS) critical, logical, reflective, metacognitive,
and creative thinking. They are activated
when individuals encounter unfamiliar
problems, uncertainties, questions, or
dilemmas.
A reflective journal is a means of
Reflective Journal recording ideas, personal thoughts and
experiences, as well as reflections and
insights a student have in the learning
process of a course

Portfolio A reflective, reflective, evidenced based

document of based document of
teaching, research, and service
performance. Significant professional
accomplishments and achievements.
 1- Enhance critical thinking and creativity

 The process of self-reflection enhances the

development of critical thinking skills among
students when they relate their knowledge to real
world issues.
 It can help students develop their creativity and a
solving problems towards different issues and
problems.
 Creativity and critical thinking = HOTS
 2- Analyzing errors

 Writing reflective journals enables the students to

analyze errors that have been made.
 Analyzing errors means they have to question
themselves how the errors occurred.
 Thus, it can help students to develop questioning
attitude towards different issues and problems.
 3-Identify and explore our own practices and
underlying beliefs

 Process of collecting, recording, and analysing our

thoughts and observations
 lead to changes and improvements in our teaching
 changes leads to quality of teaching and learning
takes place effectively
 1- Offer multidimensional perspectives of one’s
progress / reflection
 It has a lot of aspects : Co-curricular, journal,
students progress, Teaching and Learning aids,
school information
 Allow us to reflect on multidimensional perspectives
on our progress.
 Due to that, it enable us to interrelate all the aspects
into one and how certain thing should be done
simultaneously.
 This requires HOTS skills in order to find the
solutions.
 2- Provides window into practices and outcome

 Writing weekly reports requires me to evaluate the

effectiveness of my lessons
 Pupils' inability to achieve learning objectives would
prompt me to come up with ideas for remedial
lessons
 Repetition leads to more practice, which in turn
develops my higher order thinking skills
 3- Promote self-evaluation

 To evaluate our own learning

 Can be used to evaluate our own performance
 To help ourselves to perform better next time.
 Those who participate in self-evaluations are
motivated, have a positive outlook and develop
cognitive skills.
THANK YOU