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Reflection

Reflection. 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?. Reflection. Experience + Reflection = Growth Think about the experience

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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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