Linking the UK Professional Standards Framework to reflective practice and action research

This is a part of a collection of materials developed by the HEAcademy Subject Centre for Languages, linguistics and area studies. The materials provide reflective activities designed to engage teachers with some of the key issues in working with international students and practical ideas for ways in which these can be addressed. They will be of particular interest to new staff or anyone new to working with international students.

Black Boxes and Abstraction or A quick run through how computers work

How we get from transistors through to logic gates to ALUs and memory to the stored program and the fetch execute cycle through to machine code and high level languages. Inspired by Tanenbaum's approach in "Structured Computer Organozation"

Abstraction: From Transistors to Computers and from Bits to Programs

Takes the Tanenbaum (Structured Computer Organisation) approach to show how application of successive levels of abstraction allow us to understand how computers are made from transitors and how they are programmed.

Sample student reflective writing (Computer Science)

4 examples of student reflections

Reflective diary template

This is the framework we would like you to complete for your daily diary log.

REFLECTIVE LOG ENTRY 1

One working day: Reflection on practice: facilitating an occupational therapy student.

Sustaining Success reports vs reflective writing

This handout summarises obvious differences between reports or essays and reflective writing.

Looking at reflective writing

Two reflection exercise to help you understand the reflection process better, and how to evaluate this type of activity In each case you are asked to read through some reflective writing, and then decide how they compare