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- Reflective practice ensures you’re always evaluating past decisions in the classroom and making tweaks to improve your delivery and content, as well as tailoring your teaching to your current students as every cohort has different needs. It’s an essential aspect of ongoing professional development and part of being an effective teacher.
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Sep 20, 2024 · Reflective teaching allows you to critically evaluate your classroom management and improve your handling of challenging behaviour. For example, you may assess your current rules and procedures to create a more positive and inclusive classroom environment overall with less disruptions.
Reflective teaching means looking at what you do in the classroom, thinking about why you do it, and thinking about if it works - a process of self-observation and self-evaluation.
- Reflection-in-Practice. Reflection in practice is a concept by David Schon which involves small moments of reflection throughout your day. Instead of pausing at the end of your activities and reflecting upon what you did, Schon argues that good practitioners reflect in the moment and make tiny changes from moment-to-moment.
- Conducting Classroom Observations. Another way to do reflective teaching is to start a classroom observation routine. Create a template for your observations (e.g.
- Pivoting based on Formative Feedback. Reflective teachers also try to obtain formative feedback from students in order to gather data that can form the basis of their reflection.
- Keeping a Teaching Diary. A personal teaching diary can help teachers to identify trends in their behaviors (and the behaviors of their students) that can help teachers to improve.
- Checklist & Questions For Meaningful Teacher Reflection
- Journaling For Meaningful Teacher Reflection
- Blogging For Meaningful Teacher Reflection
- Reflecting with Future Goals & Vision Boards
- Verbal Reflections
If time is of the essence, checklists are a great way to quickly and meaningfully reflect on yourself. But first, you must spend a little bit of time creating one that is useful to YOU! To create your own reflective checklist, ask yourself this key question: Then, you can make your list into a checklist. 1. Students are smiling. 2. Students seem re...
For some, there is nothing better than a good old-fashioned journal and that may be JUST what will work best for you! But instead of using a list of questions for this, I like to have some Journal Starters. These are like sentence starters. They give you a jumping point from which to write. As you read through some of these Journal Starters, one ma...
Now, blogging may be something that interests you as well. It certainly did for me! I started my blog in 2008. It was a way for me to express my ideas and give voice to my concerns and aspirations for education, specifically for teachers! And now… 11 years later, those reflections have helped me define my role as a teacher and consultant. It contin...
Thinking about your goals, hopes and dreams is another way to reflect on your teaching. (And a fun one at that!) For this, you can journal, blog or create something that shows the vision you have for yourself professionally. A number of years ago, for one of the Summer Arts Integration & Steam Retreat workshops, I led teachers in designing their ow...
Now, let’s get real. Written reflections are great, but it doesn’t always make sense for some of us. It takes time and energy and well, sometimes you just need to reflect in the moment WITH someone. In fact, when I polled some of the Inspiring Teachers over in our wonderful Facebook group, (BTW – Have you joined yet?), verbal reflections were what ...
However, we can adjust our approach to reflection by grounding our thinking and feeling to a concrete classroom artifact or objective observation. The following examples for reflective teaching highlight different ways we can start with evidence.
Reflecting on Your Teaching. Self-reflection of your teaching can lead to endless opportunities for your professional growth as an educator. Reflection is a skill, and it starts with transparency and willingness to critically engage with the feedback you receive from your students, your peers and yourself.
