This episode’s aspect of learning to learn involves a skill that can become a lifetime’s habit of mind: self-reflection. Intertwined with agency, reflection is the skill that differentiates between having experience and learning from experience. It's quite possible to refuse to learn and change based on experience: it's reflection that leads to action that gives learning traction.

In this episode, we'll compare two "flavors" of the teaching of reflection at the college.

As you may recall from episode 1 of this season, "flavor" is Mary Helen Hendrix's word for the customization of common learning topics we teach at the college yet are taught and practiced is quite different ways depending on what is being taught. This episode will be the first to allow you to compare “flavors” of the same skill at the college.  

Matt Stilwell, Public Speaking Professor in the School of Humanities, will talk about the cadence of reflection in his classes. Cayce Hendrix, Respiratory Therapy Professor and COL Lead for the School of Healthcare, will talk about the value of reflection in the practice of medicine professionally and as a student and will explore how she embeds it in her classes. Both professors also talk about their own reflective practice, which is what lead both of them to their fulfilling and meaningful careers at MTC.