Title: Three Benefits of Reflective Teaching | PLS Classes
Headings: Three Benefits of Reflective Teaching and How to Practice it in Your Classroom
Three Benefits of Reflective Teaching and How to Practice it in Your Classroom
Three Benefits of Reflective Teaching
Three Ways to Practice Reflective Teaching in Your Classroom

Content: Continual reflection allows for constant improvement. By thinking critically about the success of your lessons plans and the outcomes they produced, and by putting time and effort into creative solutions to limitations and barriers to success, you can find innovative and impactful ways to refine your teaching skills for greater professional success. Reflective teaching supports student-centered learning. Student-centered learning refers to “a wide variety of educational programs, learning experiences, instructional approaches, and academic-support strategies that are intended to address the distinct learning needs, interests, aspirations, or cultural backgrounds of individual students and groups of students.” 2 Student-centered learning is one of the foundations of today’s educational theory and practice. By consistently asking for feedback from your students, you can use that information to create better lesson plans which are more meaningful for students in the future. You may also ask for feedback from other sources such as students’ families, other teachers, your principal or instructional coach. In essence, you are creating and experimenting with techniques and curriculum approaches that may contribute toward higher achievement levels since you are fine tuning what works best and what does not work. 3
Three Ways to Practice Reflective Teaching in Your Classroom
There are several approaches to successfully implementing reflective teaching tactics. Carve out time to experiment with one or all of these techniques to find the combination that produces the most significant results for you and your students.