“…As an integral part of successful teaching (Woolway et al, 2019), reflection is crucial to teachers' professional development (Brown et al, 2021;Buschor & Kamm, 2015;Jarvis et al, 2014;Van Braak et al, 2022) in that it not only provides teachers with opportunities to bridge theory and practice but also supports self and peer guidance (Woolway et al, 2019). In essence, there is a great deal of variation in how reflection is perceived, conducted, and evaluated, as well as in how much focus is given to it (Tight, 2023). Different from individual reflection, collaborative reflection refers to the procedures by which members of a specific community reflect through the outcomes of this process (Jiang & Zheng, 2021), prompting teachers to think through their professional responsibilities that they were not previously aware of or even ignored (Lin et al, 2013).…”