Benefits of Reflection

Reflective Practitioners:

Reflective teachers utilize ways to describe and analyze their instructional decisions while they asses their personal acceptance with the lesson that they created. In order to be a good and effective teacher one must consider how to appreciate, apply, and synthesize aspects of good teaching by critiquing them from all views. These teachers have a unique way of looking back on their teaching styles, the learning in their classroom, make constructive criticisms about the approach, and reconstruct their teaching behavior as a result.    

Benefits of Reflection:

Reflection can have shot term and long term benefits. Reflection can increase the teacher’s ability to understand and critique the classroom events. Reflective teaching can also demonstrate the need to enhance the teacher’s learning about teaching. To exhibit the most from this process one will need to first, have a concrete learning experience that will include grading of homework papers. Secondly, one must reflect on the experience by observation and evaluation. Think back on why the home work was assigned and the overall nature of the homework, what was the target of the assignment. Thirdly, you must process what you already know and believe about teaching and learning to integrate your reflections of them both.

How can you develop reflective abilities?

In relating to an early childhood education background and serving a diverse community one would have to be a reflective practitioner. My plans would be to design lesson plans that will center on cultural awareness in serving bi-lingual students and their families. I would have to critique all lesson to be sure to allow for each student to understand the material, explore the material and for the student to be able to problem solve as a means of gaining knowledge from the experience. A Head Start Teacher must be able to have lesson plans that will target all types’ of learners and participants. The plan must be able to attract the learner for exploration, hold the learners attention, and the learner must be able to display what they have captured from the experience. One true way of gaining information from young learners is to have a system of asking open-ended questions that will allow the students to express their feelings about the experience. Young students often will follow the lead of other students in voicing their opinions about the stimulation at hand. A good teacher must provide case notes, anecdotes, charts and assessments to provide knowledge of how a student is progressing. Teachers must have a system of change in the approach of teaching when it appears that a student is struggling with processing information. In summary a good teacher knows how to approach diverse student learning, set goals for classroom structure and create an atmosphere for student achievements as a means of progressing their learning.

 

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
— Martin Luther King Jr.