Title: All Teachers are Reflective Teachers
Headings: The Importance of Teacher Reflection
The Importance of Teacher Reflection
'Reflect-in-Action'
Methods of Teacher Reflection
What to Do With Reflections
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The Importance of Teacher Reflection
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When teachers reflect on teaching is more important than how they reflect. Tara Moore / Taxi / Getty Images
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Melissa Kelly
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M.Ed., Curriculum and Instruction, University of Florida
B.A., History, University of Florida
Melissa Kelly, M.Ed., is a secondary school teacher, instructional designer, and the author of "The Everything New Teacher Book: A Survival Guide for the First Year and Beyond." our editorial process
Melissa Kelly
Updated March 19, 2020
A reflective teacher is an effective teacher. And educators do tend to reflect on their teaching methods. 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. "The laborious attempts to facilitate reﬂective practices for teachers ﬂy in the face of the truism expressed in the epigraph of this article, namely, that there is no such thing as an unreﬂective teacher."