reflective teacher. Reflection can be a challenging endeavor. It's not something that's fostered in school-typically someone else tells you how you're doing! Teachers are often so caught up in the meeting the demands of the day, that they rarely have the luxury to muse on how things went.
A reflex arc is a neural pathway that controls a reflex action. In higher animals, most sensory neurons do not pass directly into the brain, but synapse in the spinal cord.his characteristic allows reflex actions to occur relatively quickly by activating spinal motor neurons without the delay of routing signals through the brain, although the brain will receive sensory input while the reflex is carried out.
1 The abnormal plantar reflex, or Babinski reflex, is the elicitation of toe extension from the wrong receptive field, that is, the sole of the foot. 2  Thus a noxious stimulus to the sole of the foot produces extension of the great toe instead of the normal flexion response. The plantar reflex is a nociceptive segmental spinal reflex that serves the purpose of protecting the sole of the foot. 2  The clinical significance lies in the fact that the abnormal response reliably indicates metabolic or structural abnormality in the corticospinal system upstream from the segmental reflex.