Reflect with Purpose. Teach with Intent. 

The Educator Reflection Journal helps post-secondary educators transform everyday teaching experiences into greater confidence, meaningful professional growth, and a lasting record of their teaching journey.

Capture Your Teaching Story

Great teaching doesn't grow through experience alone—it grows through intentional reflection.

The Educator Reflection Journal is a guided 14-week companion that helps post-secondary educators transform everyday teaching experiences into meaningful professional growth, greater confidence, and clear evidence of their impact.

Through weekly and monthly reflection prompts across five key areas, you'll identify what's working, recognize patterns, strengthen your teaching practice, and build your teaching philosophy—one reflection at a time.
Designed to take just 10–15 minutes each week, the journal helps you build a reflective practice that fits into a busy academic semester.

Everything You Need to Reflect with Purpose:

  • 82-page guided reflection journal
  • 14 weeks of structured prompts
  • Weekly, monthly, and end-of-course reflections
  • Prompts that help you develop and strengthen your teaching philosophy
  • Downloadable PDF for print or digital use
TAKE YOUR TEACHING PRACTICE TO NEW HEIGHTS

Created by Educators, for Educators

The Educator Reflection Journal was inspired by years of teaching, faculty development, and conversations with educators across higher education.

Every prompt is designed to help you pause, reflect with purpose, and capture the teaching moments that shape your growth—before they're forgotten.

By the End of the Semester, You'll Have...

✅ 65 guided reflections capturing your teaching journey
✅ 13 curated artifacts to strengthen your teaching dossier
✅ 3 monthly summaries that help you recognize patterns and celebrate progress
✅ 1 cohesive professional narrative you can draw on for interviews, annual reviews, promotion and tenure applications, teaching awards, and other career opportunities.

Instead of trying to remember your best teaching moments months or years later, you'll have the confidence, evidence, and language to clearly demonstrate your growth as an educator.

Perfect for post-secondary educators, sessional instructors, and anyone committed to intentional reflection and continuous professional growth.
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Capture Evidence While It's Fresh 

Perfect for documenting experiences that can support:
✓ Teaching dossiers
✓ Promotion & tenure
✓ Annual reviews
✓ Award nominations
✓ Job applications
✓ Professional development
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Reflection Builds Confidence 

Instead of wondering whether you're growing, you'll have tangible evidence of your development.

Celebrate progress. Recognize patterns. See how far you've come. Push for more. 
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Built by educators, for educators. 

Created through years of conversations with educators across higher education, this journal provides practical prompts that encourage meaningful reflections.

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Build Your Teaching Philosophy

One reflection at a time! Rather than sitting down years later trying to write a teaching philosophy from memory, build it as you teach.

Each reflection becomes another piece of your story as an educator.
What educators are saying about
The Educator Reflection Journal 

"The journal helped me to reflect on why I am a teacher. And helped me to ensure I stayed true to my philosophy. I have recommended it to all new scheme teachers at my school."

Kurt Walker 

What educators are saying about
The Educator Reflection Journal 

" I really liked digging into my values. It is something I ask students to do with their leadership philosophy, so doing it for myself was great. "

Dr. T. J. Hoogsteen

Not sure if reflective journaling is for you?

Download the FREE 10 Questions Every Educator Should Ask After Class

Get a taste of the reflection process with 10 powerful questions you can use after your next class.

✔ Reflect more intentionally
✔ Identify what worked (and what didn't)
✔ Start building your teaching story
Meet Your guide

Salli Carter

I’ve spent more than a decade working in higher education, and throughout that time, reflection has become one of the most valuable parts of my own teaching practice.

Some of my greatest learning as an educator has come from simply taking the time to notice what worked, what didn’t, how students responded, and what I wanted to do differently next time.

That experience inspired the Reflection Journal for Educators.

I created this journal to make reflection practical and intentional—not something we mean to do when we have more time. The prompts are designed to help you capture meaningful moments from your teaching, recognize patterns, celebrate growth, and turn everyday experiences into better decisions for your practice.

Because experience gives us something to reflect on. Reflection is what helps us grow from it.
Patrick Jones - Course author

Continue Your Professional Learning

Check out The Educator Experience Podcast

Recognized as one of Canada’s top education podcasts, The Educator Experience Podcast brings together educators, researchers, academic leaders, and innovators to share ideas, experiences, and research shaping teaching and learning.

From reflective practice and student engagement to AI, assessment, leadership, and faculty development, each conversation offers new perspectives to help you think differently about your own practice.

Listen, reflect, and keep growing as an educator.

🎧 New episodes released weekly.
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