Title: Why Reflection Is Important In Teaching | TeachThought
Headings: Why Reflection Is Important In Teaching
Why Reflection Is Important In Teaching
Making Reflection Part Of Your Teaching Practice
Reflection As A Strategy To Improve Social Equity
Four Strategies For Reflective Teaching
Build Community
Create a cycle of reflection
Choose a Purpose
Use Open-Ended Probing Questions
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Content: These are questions we have been asking in our work at Relay Graduate School of Education with new teachers, and it has led us to investigate the power of a humble yet profound skill: reflection. As teachers of teachers, we know from our experience that an educator’s work is infinitely complex. It requires many different facets of teaching, learning, thinking, feeling, and doing. Every day, teachers are tasked with bringing these aspects together seamlessly in order to orchestrate meaningful experiences. Without deep thinking about their work, teachers can fall back on rigid policies, mechanical routines, and scripted curricula. To truly challenge this, teachers need to investigate their own values, beliefs, and biases as they work to create transformative and emancipatory learning experiences. That is where reflection comes in. See also 10 Ways To Be A More Reflective Teacher
Reflection has deep philosophical and pedagogical roots, reaching from the works of John Dewey to the field of culturally responsive pedagogy. Reflection is a rigorous and systematic way of thinking that generates new knowledge by helping us create meaning from our experiences.