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conclusion: "Research on effective teaching over the past two decades has shown that effective practice is linked to inquiry, reflection, and continuous professional growth (Harris 1998). Reflective practice can be a beneficial form of professional development at both the pre-service and in-service levels of teaching. **By gaining a better understanding of their own individual teaching styles through reflective practice, teachers can improve their effectiveness in the classroom**"

[|Copeland, Birmingham and Lewin (1993)] ask a critical question: 'Do students of highly reflective teachers learn more or better or even differently?'" " As Larrivee[|[23] ] argues, Reflective Practice moves teachers from their knowledge base of distinct skills to a stage in their careers where they are able to modify their skills to suit specific contexts and situations, and eventually to invent new strategies" I am a reflective practitioner but it can sometimes take a few "loops" before changes are implemented:

A lecturer must have an awareness of the preconceived ideas which affect his practice,

but no evidence teaching reflection has much of an impact... . Kolb also clarifies the limitations of his Learning Style Inventory, pointing out that it only represents "elementary learning orientations" which he sees as being in a different dimension to that of development ([|Kolb, 1984: 76, 98]).