Reflective Activity 1 – P.

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Discuss the mission of your university from the point of view of content, relevance, clarity,
precision, etc.

1. Reflection on the Mission

 WSU is dedicated to produce competent graduates, provide problem solving research

outputs, transfer appropriate technologies and deliver demand driven community and
consultancy services.

2. Reflection on Vision

 WSU aspires to be one of the best five universities nationally and top ranked university in
East Africa by 2020.

2. How effectively are the teachers in your HEI working towards realizing the mission and vision
of the institution?
 By understand more fully our university’s’ mandates, roles, responsibilities and
expectations.
 By discussing leadership contexts, mandates and functions
 By deals with the role of professionalism and professional development
 By addressing inclusive higher education with respect to some principles of diversity,
inclusion and equity.
 By treating Opportunities and challenges in teaching diverse populations.

3. What are the core values of your institution?

Core Values including: -

 Academic freedom
 Accountability
 Institutional autonomy
 Reputability
 Customer orientation
 Good governance
 Strategic partnership and collaboration
 Recognition of merit
 Effectiveness and efficiency
 Democracy and multiculturalism
4. To what extent are the above core values practiced?
 They conduct up to 65-85% in the institution. Thus, we usually spent some months without
work.
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 Reflective Activity 2 - P. 8
1. How relevant and important are the various leadership positions for the effective
functioning of HEIs?

 By ddoing with employment of the right resources for the right task as ordered by
the level of importance.
 students can learn from the leaders’ actions and hence enables them to develop a
sense that being effective is not just theoretical
 by doing with achieving the vision and mission of becoming academic excellence
 Significantly contributing for the national economy through such engagements as
problem solving research and community services on the other hand

2. To what extent does the top leadership understand and support the efforts of lower
academic units to achieve the ultimate goals of the institution?
 They conduct up to 25-45% in the institution.
 They act as
major roles of interpersonal contact, information processing and decision making.

3. From the point of view of need and efficiency, how satisfactory is the organization of
HEIs?
 Increasing graduation rates and levels of educational attainment
 Colleges and universities need to reconfigure graduate programs to better
 Finally, the present practices seem bound to give way to more satisfactory 

Reflective Activity 3 - Pp. 8 - 9

1. How reasonable are the rights and duties of the academic staff as indicated in the
Senate Legislation of your University?
 Duties and responsibilities of department/school graduate committee
 Be responsible for the implementation of the policies laid down by the Senate 
 load stipulated in the university legislation; a teaching staff invited from any other
 He/she may also would be paid a reasonable honorarium of birr 300.00
2. To what extent are higher education teachers (in your university) performing
according to their duties and responsibilities as indicated in the Senate Legislation?
 They perform up to 95-100% in the institution
 Utilize the national focus accorded to the expansion of higher education to popularize
 enrolls students, offers courses, awards degree, conducts research
 their functions within a month of their establishment, at the latest.

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 Unit Two: The Role of Reflection among Higher Education Teachers

Reflective Activity 4 - P. 12
1. What do reflection, reflective practice and reflective teaching mean to you?

Reflection means a habit of looking back on experiences so as to learn from them. Also, a
means of constructing knowledge about oneself and about the world.
Therefore, reflection in teaching and learning defined as
 reviewing one’s practice, identifying lessons from it and determining how the lessons
influence future action, or
 engaging in a deliberate, purposeful, structured activity to link theory and practice.
 In short, reflection has to do with learning, change and development.
 Is the action that what we did in the past?
 Why I miss this chance?
reflective practice in teaching means
 past experience/expectation
 may be external factor/push pull factor
 what we learn from the past mistake and practices/model from back lesson?
 is the ability to reflect on one's actions so as to engage in a process of continuous
learning.

2. How well do you practice reflective thinking to deepen your own

understanding and to improve your teaching competence?
Reflective teaching is a process where teachers think over their teaching practices,
analyzing how

3. Based on your teaching experiences, give examples of reflection on, in and for
action.

Example for reflection in is, I am doing during the teaching and learning lesson give a refresh
time to students. For reflection on, about what we were learn to day? Discussion about
Summary on session/ lesson
and reflection for action, I am giving reading assignment on next session/ lesson.

4. How well have you handled the technical, practical and critical levels of
reelection? Elaborate.
 By asking the question/brain storming randomly in the class room
 By giving the quiz by cluster
 Gap the lecturer, refresh, joking

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Reflective Activity 5 - P. 14
1. What are the different techniques of reflection that you have been using in your
reflective learning endeavors? Why did you use them and how?
 Role model-the way the love gives to others
 Smooth or positive communication
 Active presentation
 Control the classroom

2. Which reflective technique is more preferable and appropriate for

teaching/learning and for lifelong learning? How?
 Gap the lecturer. It makes the presenting way active i.e. presentation was good.

Reflective Activity 6 - P. 15
1. What have you understood about reflective higher education teachers in higher
education from the above cases?
 I have understood that different teacher shows different forms of reflective in
their teaching and learning process. One was active in reflective form that used
the tree types of reflection in it teaching lesson. Other teacher was careless in
their teaching system. Also other was loss their induction in the staff.

2. How effective are the above cases in changing your attitude towards applying
reflective thinking in your study and in your teaching? Explain.
 Fresh teacher should have induction i.e. the relationship to other senior/ older
teachers to share the information. By using the tree forms of reflective in our
lesson i should teach effective teaching learning process in my session.

3. After going through the cases, do you feel you should change your attitude
towards the application of reflection in your practice? Explain.
 Yes, by learning from the above cases, I refine my shelf to use effectively the
three forms of reflection i.e. in, on and for action in my teaching and learning
process and practices, in addition to reflection levels.

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 Activity 8 - P. 18
Plan CPD of your own in terms of knowledge, skill, and attitude. You may consider any
one of the following.

CPD Plan on Student assessment

S.No Types of Date of % of Feedback Year/Section

Assessment Assessment mark Date

1. Test_1 16/03/2012 10 16/03/2012

2. Test_2 15/04/202 10 15/04/2012

3. Individual 26/03/2012 10 After two

Assignment weeks 2nd year/one
section
4. Group Assignment 10/04/2012 10 After two
weeks

5. Quizes 26/03/2012 6 26/03/2012

6. Practicals Every week on 20 After a week

(I,II,III,IV,V...) Friday
Quiz(s) afternoon

CPD Plan on Classroom presentations

Skills gaps to develop suggestion/ recommendations

- Lacking gap in presentation -Through giving gap in the presentation, 10’ discussion, brain
storming question, quiz by cluster…etc.

- Lacking teaching with video -By teaching through video prepared no lesson/ searching google
collaboration on video of the session and using it.

- Lack of using latest -Improved through learning, searching internet, watching video,
way/wireless function TV, and reading different materials i.e. book, journal, article,
presentation in teaching magazine, newspaper…etc.

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Activity 9
Teaching may be described as a process of facilitating student learning using appropriate
planning and presentation, managing students and resources, guiding and counseling students
and assessing student learning outcomes. Given the above three cases identify and describe
those teaching skills you feel you should develop. Look at the example of a CPD plan and
then develop a CPD plan

Skills you need to develop Why and how?

Case 1
-classroom management -Trough eye contacting on students
- Student assessment - By time managing
-Technology utilization in - By using wireless function presentation in teaching
teaching

Case 2 -Through giving gap in the presentation, 10’ discussion, brain

-Classroom presentation- storming question, quiz by cluster…etc.

-By using medium/balanced, normal sound during teaching

- Self-management /presenting,
- Classroom management -Following students through eye contacting
-Student assessment -By giving time for answering the questions
Case 3
- Classroom presentation -By using visible Pont number on slide/type of colored text on
slide
- Diversity management -By participating all students on answering and questioning
systems.

Activity 10 - P. 22

Your Continuous Professional Development Plan

What I Specific objectives What I will do By when Review of objectives

would like (Date) (How? By whom?)
to develop

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 Technology -To conduct the latest Getting Latest PC, smart 27/03- - Improved through
utilization in way of teaching mobile phone 10/10/2012 learning, searching
teaching internet, watching video,
TV, and reading different
materials i.e. book,
journal, article, magazine,
newspaper…etc.
Diversity To assess/participating Relaying role 27/03- By participating all
management all students in all model/best approaches 10/10/2012 students on answering,
session equally. questioning and practical
session

Activity 12 - P. 25
What are your personal characteristics as a teacher?

Positive characteristics Behaviors

Active presenter Participatory teaching method
Smooth/positive communication show self-discipline, open-mindedness
and understanding
Role model Showing best approaches to class
Control classroom Following students through eye contacting
and working with class
Method of education Based on student preference

Negative characteristics Behaviors

Lacking induction with staff Silenced. Weak relationship with staff

Coming class late/corruption Preparing teaching material like LCD,
Duster…etc.
Discharge the students If they were without discipline