- What did I do?
- Why did I do it
- How did it go
- Where do I go from here?

Best Teaching Practices: Reflection
Reflection is the process of reviewing what you have already done and extracting lessons and principles from these various experiences. Surprisingly, this is a commonly forgotten skill in teaching. Teachers are so busy preparing for their next class or the next day, that sometimes they do not take a minute to see what 
works for them and their students. Through the process of reflection, a teacher begins to grow and develop as an instructor. Reflection helps teachers to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Some basic questions to consider when reflecting on your teacher include the following…
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See also Kemp’s article on the use of journals to raise learner awareness and develop academic listening skills. https://academic.oup.com/eltj/article/64/4/385/389211?searchresult=1
The context and purposes may be different, but the principles and benefits are fundamentally the same.
If you are a reflective practitioner you will no doubt be locked into cycles of plan-do-review. This is in effect a process of pedagogic action research, although you (and your institution) may not recognise it as such, and may not explicitly link it with your much-needed process of personal and professional development. And yet, when the full potential of action research is embedded in both personal and institutional processes, it can create benefits ranging from positive changes through small-scale activity to whole-institution incremental developments in policy and practice.
I had the privilege of convening an Action Research Consortium (ARC) at one HEI where I worked, and wrote a chapter about the experience in a chapter, as follows:
Kumar, A. (2010) Chapter 18, p. 254 ‘Supporting action research as a CPD process’, in Atlay, M. and Coughlin, A. (eds.) Creating communities: developing, enhancing and sustaining learning communities across the University of Bedfordshire. Luton: University of Bedfordshire.
I’m now freelancing as a consultant so I don’t know if the ARC has been sustained – unfortunately a great many initiatives in HE are a flash in the pan and do not get consolidated. I’m sure however that it can be replicated elsewhere and is a sustainable model.