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Reflection

Discover how reflecting on observations can enhance growth in teaching, benefitting your goals through thoughtful analysis and continuous improvement. Explore experiences, interpret meanings, and plan intentional actions for effective teaching. Create detailed reflective logs incorporating significant episodes, analyzing feelings, thoughts, and lessons learned. Address the four key features of teachers, learners, subject matter, and contextual factors, ensuring a holistic approach to reflective practice.

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Reflection

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  1. Reflection

  2. Reflecting on Your Observations • Enables you to grow • Think, Pair, and Share: • How do you expect to benefit from your observations? • What are your goals?

  3. Reflection • Experience + Reflection = Growth • Think about the experience • What does the experience mean • How did it feel • Where might it lead • What will you do about it

  4. Reflective Teachers • Actively, persistently, and carefully consider and reconsider beliefs and practices • Act in deliberate and intentional ways • Devise new ways of teaching • Interpret new experiences from a fresh perspective

  5. Parts of the Reflective Logs • Heading • Name • School Name • Date of Field Experience • Time Spent • Classes Observed • Sequence of Events • Brief list of what happened • Write this as soon as possible

  6. Parts of Reflective Logs (cont.) • Elaboration of Two Significant Episodes • Bothers you, excites you, causes you to rethink something, validates thoughts • Need Four Features • Teacher • Learner • Subject Matter • Context

  7. Four Features • Teacher • Kind of person s/he is • Role • Tasks faced in classroom • Learners • What learners know • Cultural background • Treatment of learners – individual or group • Use fastest, middle, or slower learners to set pace • How are reluctant students helped

  8. Four Features (cont.) • Subject Matter • Facts and concepts • Thinking process • Physical skills • Values, feelings • Breadth vs. depth • Context • Physical and social environment of classroom • Background of learners and teacher • Time available for teaching

  9. Parts of Reflective Logs (cont.) • Analysis of Episodes • Feelings About Episodes • Thoughts About Episodes • Questions Raised • What You Learned • What works? • What doesn’t work? • Confirm your beliefs/ideas?

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