The Reflective Educator
David Kolb
Experiential Learning
Focus
We learn by doing, then reflecting on what happened — exactly how a simulation works.
Key concepts
- Experience → reflect → adjust
- Reflective practice
- Safe rehearsal before real stakes
In the classroom
After a rough transition, a teacher takes thirty seconds to ask herself what worked and what she'd try differently tomorrow.
See it in practice
Every Edfable simulation connected to this theory — and why it applies.
Ethical judgment is built by reflecting on hard cases before they're yours — exactly what this rehearsal is for.
A mandated-reporting gray area and a staff conflict. Reason through the Code of Ethical Conduct.
Great leaders run the experience-reflect-adjust loop out loud — that's coaching, and it's how programs improve.
The boss scenario: a mishandled disclosure, a demanding relative, and a junior colleague to coach — all at once.