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.
noun. The nerve pathway involved in a reflex action, including at its simplest a sensory nerve and a motor nerve with a synapse between. Example sentences. 1  The changes in the blood vessel and local hemodynamics could be mediated via a reflex arc, consisting of somatic afferent and autonomic efferent components.2  These relaxations are vagally mediated, but the reflex arc that produces them can be affected by stimulation of other receptors.xample sentences. 1  The changes in the blood vessel and local hemodynamics could be mediated via a reflex arc, consisting of somatic afferent and autonomic efferent components.