The Reflection Space
An online platform that supports insight, connection, and growth
CTLM invites instructors to join The Reflection Space to engage in reflective practice on teaching while building community with other instructors.
Throughout the semester, you’ll receive reflections – prompts encouraging you to think and write about various aspects of your teaching and your students’ learning.
- Respond at your own pace – You decide how often to participate and how much time to spend.
- Build connections and learn from others – If you choose, you may share your writing and read about others’ experiences.
- Open to anyone in an instructional role at UW-Madison – Academic staff, faculty, and graduate students.
What participants say
“I loved writing and reading the posts. It helped me understand others’ teaching, which helped me understand my teaching.”
Jonathan Gallimore, Lecturer, Psychology
“I found many things in common with others and was often inspired by their teaching philosophies and practices.”
Kate Rotzenberg, Teaching Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy
“Useful for my own reflective practice and also for thinking about how to bring some of these concepts and practices to my students.”
Kelsey Henriquez, Teaching Faculty, Physician Assistant Program
By participating in the Reflection Space, you can:
- Reflect on ways to improve your teaching and student learning by adjusting aspects of your course and your teaching.
- Examine your personal beliefs, biases, habits, and assumptions, and how they influence your practices.
- Connect with the motivations and values that underlie your identity as an educator.
- Recognize sociocultural and contextual factors and barriers that support or inhibit learning in your own context.
- Build community with other educators engaged in critical reflection on teaching and learning.
Example reflection
Weekly Reflection – Critical Incidents
For this reflection we’re turning our attention to the formative events in our personal journeys as educators. This is the first reflection on “Critical Incidents:” those unexpected moments that are “vividly remembered” and can lead to important changes in our practice.
This Reflection Overview is a shortened text of the Featured Reflection. The full text is available within The Reflection Space.
What’s inside
In addition to the Featured Reflections, joining The Reflection Space gives you access via Canvas to:
- A reading room on scholarship of reflective practice
- A community forum to share your written reflections on teaching and interact with colleagues
- A gallery of additional reflections, and more!