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: How will you use this information in your work with students to support and empower them?” and “What did you learn about your teaching? What changed?” By using the same prompts, teachers see how their thinking is changing. By using open-ended questions, teachers have begun asking themselves increasingly critical questions and seeking to find honest answers. And by doing this work in community, we worked to create a space where teachers are safe to take risks in their reflection. At one level, teachers are connecting their experience in the classroom to larger learnings about themselves as educators. For Devin Rice, a second-grade teacher, his reflections led him to shift his focus from how he viewed himself as a teacher to how his students viewed him. He wrote: “ How did my teaching make them [my students] feel?