Reflective Teaching

Teaching is complex, but it is also a combination of many small and repetitive tasks that all come together to form a bigger picture. Reflective teaching helps you understand how to better perform each little part to create a better future. This can make you a much more effective teacher and can help your students know that you have their best interest in mind when designing your classroom teaching strategy. Reflective teaching can create a better learning environment for your students is the best way to understand why you should be using these techniques.

Values and Importance of Reflective Teaching

• Reflective teaching has a central position in professional education and teachers’ experiences signify its role in effective teaching. The process of reflective teaching relates to the concept of development, education, and training. By these concepts, we can understand that some skills, instruments, and strategies can be taught to enable teachers to become reflective (Mann, 2005).

• Reflective teaching is the method to deal with classroom barriers. In this process, teachers should not be passive in classroom situations; they should have an active role as an innovator in the classroom (Dewey, 1993).

• Teachers can overcome doubts and fears to critically assess their practice and make a meaningful change (Farrell, 2008).
Summing up, learning that results from reflective teaching is best described as one borne of experiences that have been deeply thought of, analyzed and evaluated. Reflection is inseparable from experience. Experience is not yet the best learning, reflection is.

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