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: We can’t afford to mindlessly implement out-dated and unjust policies, or rely on the same curricula and methods that created our current world. To change we need to be willing to ask difficult questions of ourselves and each other. Ultimately, rigorous reflection is about empowerment and liberation. It is about meaning-making and personal and intellectual growth. Reflection demands that we collectively measure our actions alongside the values that we believe in. As educators, we can build communities that value justice, equity, and empowering our students; we can normalize struggle, and we can pick each other up when the answers don’t match our ideals. After all, as educators, it is our responsibility to build the spaces where people have the courage to walk inside their perspective and emerge with answers that they can live with. Four Strategies For Reflective Teaching
Build Community
Reflection can be individual, but there is great power when done in community. It allows teachers to share key learnings, hear other perspectives, and make commitments with people they trust.