Creating a Culture of Self-Reflection

Professional Development Credit – This Micro-Credential may be eligible for continuing professional development credit in your state. Contact your state affiliate association to learn more.

Overview – The Creating a Culture of Self-Reflection Micro-Credential requires that the practitioner demonstrates proficiency of all the essential outcomes and the research-based subskills defined in the details. These include the practitioner’s ability to facilitate, support, and sustain processes which increases stakeholders’ capacity to self-reflect, recognize, and reflect on strengths and areas of improvement vital for personal and professional growth. Further, the practitioner will: provide proof of the ability to create and implement processes and structures to assess and evaluate self-reflection and growth of all stakeholders; and provide a plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and a monitoring process to establish and sustain best practices in self-reflection that allow each stakeholder and the school to achieve peak performance. The educational leader recognizes the attainment of a learning community’s highest possible potential is incumbent upon their individual and the community members’ reflection and overall growth (NASSP, 2018, p. 207).

Essential Outcomes – Creating a Culture of Self-Reflection includes the following four identified essential outcomes:

1. Facilitate, support, and sustain processes which increases stakeholders’ capacity to self-reflect.
2. Facilitate, support, and sustain opportunities for stakeholders to recognize and reflect on strengths and areas of improvement vital for personal and professional growth.
3. Create and implement processes and structures to assess and evaluate self-reflection and growth of all stakeholders.
4. Provide a plan with strategies, implementation timelines, evaluation, and monitoring process to establish, foster, and sustain best practices in self-reflection that allow each stakeholder and the school to achieve peak performance.

Requirements

Part 1. Overview Questions

Develop a responsive narrative that answers the following questions (1,000-word minimum):

1. What resources, processes, and supports have you implemented that demonstrate best practices, behaviors, and abilities to increase stakeholders’ capacity ability to sustain and regularly self-reflect? (Students and Teachers)
2. What processes and procedures have you established for stakeholders to engage in formal self-reflection assessment to identify strengths and improvement areas which promote their personal and professional growth.
3. What strategies, process, structures, and data collection do the stakeholders and educational leaders currently use to assess and evaluate self-reflection and professional growth of all stakeholders?
4. What process do stakeholders employee to develop professional growth plans which utilizes self-reflection feedback and data to develop strategies, implementation timelines, monitoring process, and evaluation to establish, foster, and sustain best practices in self-reflection that allow each stakeholder and the school to achieve peak performance.

Part 2. Skill Demonstration Product with Self-Analysis

Develop an artifact portfolio that captures the essential outcomes for the Creating a Culture of Self-Reflection Micro-Credential and complete the evidence self-analysis.

For each EO detail you will be required to reference an uploaded artifact(s) and guide the assessor to the specific evidence (page number, video time stamp, etc.) within the uploaded artifact(s). An explanation of how the evidence demonstrates proficiency of the outcome detail is also required. The practitioner must clearly and compellingly demonstrate proficiency of every detail under each essential outcome.

Part 3. Reflection & Application

Submit, in writing, a summary of your experience of Creating a Culture of Self-Reflection (500-word minimum). Provide specific examples of how you applied all components of the four essential outcomes. This could include topics covered and a description of the process used to promote evidence-based self-reflection, instructional strategies in self-reflection, including protocols for conducting observations and providing actionable and timely feedback. This could also include testimonials from teachers on changes of practice after conducting self-reflection professional development or self-reflective assessment(s) that lead to higher levels of learning for them or their students. Include a contemplation of what impact self-reflection and self- assessment has had on you stakeholders’ professional practices and how you will continue to foster and sustain self-reflection among your stakeholders it in the future.