Act of Teaching

Chapter 14
Reflective Skills of Effective Teachers
Outline
Characteristics of Reflective Practitioners (461)
Benefits of Reflecting on Teaching (462)
Developing Reflective Thinking (465)

The Reflective Process (465)

Becoming A Reflective Teacher (465)

Notes
Reflection is the ongoing process of critically examining and refining teaching
practice by considering the personal, educational, social, and ethical aspects of
teaching and schooling (460)
Characteristics of Reflective Practitioners (461)

Deliberate (461) reflect on purpose as we are accountable for our

lesson and class
Open-minded (Dewey,1997b) (461) are willing to look at their decisions
from a different perspective and are able to take criticism. Willing to admit
that they are wrong.
response[ble] (Dewey, 1997) (462) realize that we are responsible to
help student learn as best as we could
sincere (Dewey, 1998b) (462) reflect not because we are forced, but
we reflect because we want to improve and get better.
spirit of inquiry (462) have the spirit of students who wants to learn
more and more about teaching.
Benefits of Reflecting on Teaching (462)

enhances your learning about teaching (462) try to figure out where
we went wrong and improve by fixing it in the future
increases your ability to analyze and understand classroom events (463)
when we are faced with the same kind of problem, we know how to fix
them from different approaches.
enhance your classroom life (463) our reflection will affect us and our
classroom
self-monitoring (464) always try to assess yourself and keep yourself
from unwise decisions
personal and professional transformation (464) our reflection will make
us improve as both a teacher and a person.
Developing Reflective Thinking (465)

The Reflective Process (465)

o describe what happened (465)
 o Compare and contrast different perspective and the different things
that you could have done
o Evaluate by making changes (465)
Becoming A Reflective Teacher (465)
o Discuss with other fellow teachers
o Create a Dialogue journal (466) to help describe, compare, and
evaluate (466)
o Create a portfolio to see what you have done and think about what
you could have done better
o Action research (467) ask the students and get their suggestions
o Laboratory experiences (468) microteaching (468)
o Reflective Teaching (468)

Reflection
I actually had experience in this last semester. During our Indonesian Studies
course, all the Indonesian has a chance to teach a lesson. We had one lesson to
teach in one week, since there was two meetings and there were four of us, we
decided to split the lesson in two. The first half was done by two of my friends
and the second half was done by me and another. Since we were responsible for
our own lessons, we were not that involved on the first half of the lesson. When
they finally did their lesson, we found that it was quite a messy lesson, so my
friend and I decided to talk about what we should do on our lesson. While we
were talking, we kept coming back to the lesson that was done by our friends
and we try to find ways to fix them. When it was our time to teach, we found that
it went smoothly and our expat friends really enjoyed the lesson. I believe what
we did was reflecting and I could see how beneficial it is for a teacher. I would
definitely implement this as a teacher as I want to improve more and more when
there is room.