ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the final stage of the Framework for Reflecting on Practice: beyond practice. The important stage of the framework outlines and discusses the importance of critical reflective practice and how this impacts the field of TESOL in critical applied linguistics, sociocultural theory, and moral and religious reflective practice. The chapter suggests that the process of critical reflection is best carried out with other teachers in a teacher reflection group. This chapter is important, however, to detail how such groups can be formed and to discuss such issues as the type of group teachers want to form, the different roles group members take on, their preferred modes of reflection, the topics they want to discuss, how they will sustain the group, and also how they will evaluate the group after the period of critical reflection. The critical reflection encompasses the whole being of the teacher, the contemplative, reflective, cognitive, social, and political aspects of their professional and personal lives.
