Title: What It Means To Be A Reflective Teacher
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Content: Reflection sounds like an abstract idea–something unspecific, and even a little mystical. Something we do in the shower on the drive home when no one’s around and we’re free to roam in our own minds. It’s definitely true that reflection comes most effortlessly, and in its purest and rawest forms, in those circumstances when we–that is, our minds–are not otherwise engaged. Reflection isn’t a single thing–a box to check in some elliptical cycle of learning. It’s as much a matter of self-awareness, humility, and affection as it is timing, sequence, and procedure. I can see the craft of teaching as both a sequence of steps and the fulfillment of design. It’s both parts and whole. Science and art. Professional and people. I know nothing is ever perfect, so I seek to improve.