Reflective Practice with Carmel Lillis

Reflective Practice

Reflective Practice:  Reflective practice can be narrowly understood as a way to increase efficiency and achieve specific targets.  Every teacher has been urged to think about their work and to devise ways and means of improving their practice.

This online session hopes to develop an understanding of the teacher as an autonomous professional who is engaged in exploration of the self, society and the moral purpose of education.  This is a richer vision of teachers as reflective practitioners (Leith, 2019).

Background reading:   cosan-framework-for-teachers-learning.pdf

Learning Outcomes

• To further develop teachers’ confidence in their learning and expertise
• To provide a space for the exploration of and support for the ideas current in educational literature
• To encourage the facilitation of professional reflective dialogue in the school context.

Date & Time: Wednesday 26th October at 5:30 PM

Facilitator: Carmel Lillis

Carmel practiced as a primary school teacher, a home/school/community coordinator, a school principal and as a lecturer in Maynooth University on the (then) Post Graduate Diploma in Educational Leadership, now the Future Leaders programme. She subsequently trained as a coach and now works as an independent researcher and facilitator with education centres. She works to support teachers and school leaders so that they fulfil their potential as educators for the greater good of the students in their care. Carmel is particularly interested in the role of reflection through conversation, action research as a way to improve practice and embedding coaching practices to transform school cultures. She holds a Master's degree in Education and an Advanced Diploma in Personal Leadership and Executive Coaching.