Title: 7 Reflection Tips for Assessment, Empowerment, and Self-Awareness | Edutopia
Headings: 7 Reflection Tips for Assessment, Empowerment, and Self-Awareness
7 Reflection Tips for Assessment, Empowerment, and Self-Awareness
How to model and guide students toward a more reflective approach to their projects, grades, actions, and reactions.
By James Kobialka
1. Reflect With Shout-Outs
2. Reflect Through Writing
3. Model Reflective Learning With Pluses and Deltas
4. Reflect on Quizzes
5. Reflect on Behaviors
6. Model Reflection for Your Students
7. Reflect on Your Teaching Practice
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Content: Reflect on Your Teaching Practice
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Of course, not everything needs to be shared with students. Each day in a classroom brings successes and failures of various sizes. Being honest with yourself about both is absolutely imperative. No one will ever be a perfect teacher. From the first day to the last, we will all make mistakes. As we become more experienced educators, those mistakes will change, but they will never disappear. When I started teaching, my weakest skill was making my lessons accessible. My students often had difficulty engaging with the complexity of my classes. Now, I struggle with the opposite, challenging the high-flyers in my class while still allowing everyone to participate. I only know this because I can look back over six years of lesson plans, saved assignments, notes to myself, and journals that I’ve written.