Reflection Reflecting on Your Observations Enables you to
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 What does the experience mean How did it feel Where might it lead What will you do about it
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
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
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
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
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
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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