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And educators do tend to reflect on their teaching methods. Typically, this should not take more than a few moments. 0000008837 00000 n
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Moon (2004) defines reflection as a form of thinking or mental processing used to achieve an intended result. In other words, if a teacher's reflection is distanced by time, that reflection may revise the past to fit a present belief. And educators do tend to reflect on their teaching methods. They can: Reflection is an ongoing process and someday the evidence may provide more specific guidelines for teachers. A reflective teacher is an effective teacher. See our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. evaluation is called reflective teaching. In an article titled "Teacher Reflection In a Hall of Mirrors: Historical Influences and Political Reverberations," researcher Lynn Fendler states that teachers are reflective by nature as they continuously make adjustments in instruction. Were the results of the unit what I had expected and hoped for? When they practice this kind of reflection over a period of time, the information can be illuminating. Yet, there very little evidence to indicate how much reflecting a teacher should do or how she should go about it. Teachers who wait to reflect, rather than reflecting immediately after presenting a lesson or unit, may not be as accurate as those who record their thoughts immediately. 0000007583 00000 n
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Reflect on their successes, find reasons to celebrate, and use these reflections to recommend actions they need to take to ensure success for students in next year's lessons; Individually or collectively reflect on areas that need improvement and look for areas where lessons did not have the desired academic impact; Reflect on any housekeeping issues that arose or areas where. 47 25
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Answering questions can help guide teachers as they decide what they want to keep and what they want to change the next time they teach the same unit. 0000008605 00000 n
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As of this date, Scribd will manage your SlideShare account and any content you may have on SlideShare, and Scribd's General Terms of Use and Privacy Policy will apply. In an article titled "Teacher Reflection In a Hall of Mirrors: Historical Influences and Political Reverberations," researcher Lynn Fendler states that teachers are reflective by nature as they continuously make adjustments in instruction. TEACHER You can change your ad preferences anytime. xref
Research—and there is little published recently on the subject—suggests that the amount of reflection a teacher does or how she records that reflection is not as important as the timing. This purpose of this practice is to reach a common ground within professionals. 0000024441 00000 n
Reflection questions related to standard descriptors: Reflections, insights, experiences, successes, challenges, next steps: Standard 1: Know students and how they learn. Self-reflection is important because it’s a process that makes you collect, record, and analyze everything that happened in the lesson so you can make improvements in your teaching strategies where necessary. Reflection-in-action contrasts with reflection-on-action, in which the teacher considers his actions soon after instruction in order to be able to make adjustments for similar teaching situations in the future.