Title: Teaching Strategies: The Value of Self-Reflection - TeachHUB
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Teaching Strategies: The Value of Self-Reflection
Janelle Cox
Why is Self-Reflection So Important?
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Content: Teaching Strategies: The Value of Self-Reflection - TeachHUB
Teaching Strategies: The Value of Self-Reflection
Janelle Cox
M.S. in Education
October 24, 2014
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Have you ever taken a moment to step back and think, “Why did I just do that?” Self-reflection is a simple way to dig deeper into your feelings and find out why you were doing something or feeling a certain way. With a profession as challenging as teaching, self-reflection offers teachers an opportunity to think about what works and what doesn’t in their classroom. We teachers can use reflective teaching as a way to analyze and evaluate our own practices so we can focus on what works. Why is Self-Reflection So Important? Effective teachers are first to admit that no matter how good a lesson is, our teaching strategies can always be improved—oftentimes it’s why we seek out our colleagues’ opinions. However, we run the risk of our audience making snap judgments about our instruction without truly having the context to support it. Self-reflection is important because it’s a process that makes you collect, record, and analyze everything that happened in the lesson so you can make improvements in your teaching strategies where necessary.