Chapter 1: Teaching as a Reflective Practice Flashcards
What is Reflective Practice?
The process of purposefully thinking about one’s teaching practice and actively considering whether it can be changed.
Why should teachers go through reflective practice?
It is a career-long tool that is mostly driven by a desire to reshape the design and delivery of instruction so that it best serves student learning.
What is the process of reflective practice?
By adopting the attitude of, “I will be the best teacher I can be” the process will follow naturally. You will think on (reflect) and change your thoughts and actions (in practice) so you can become a great teacher. That is reflective practice.
What is professionalism?
Teacher professionalism comprises high levels of competence, performance, and conduct in regard to educating students, engaging in professional development, and being an example of discipline,
What is ONE of the FIVE benefits of participating in reflective practice?
Examining our teaching practices will illuminate our ideological and philosophical views of teaching.
Why is it important to understand that our teaching practice is something that can change?
Knowing something can be changed is the vital first step in seeking ways to change it.
What are the 5 R’s of reflection?
Reporting, Responding, Relating, Reasoning, and Reconstruction.
What are some elements of exemplary teaching?
Subject matter expertise, teaching method proficiency, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to alter your teaching to a variety of students.
In the case of student-teacher interaction, what are some elements?
Having a personal characteristic and attitude that makes you consciously choose to have students’ best interest at heart, firm but flexible, acknowledging that school is not the first priority to some students, and accepting that how students learn is more important than how you teach them.
3 specific areas of knowledge, skills, and dispostitions that are important for teachers to acquire and implicate are…
- Knowledge of learners and how they learn and develop within social contexts.
- Conceptions of curriculum content and goals; an understanding of subject matter and skills to be taught in light of the social purposes of education.
- An understadning of teaching in light of content and learners to be taught, as informed by assessment anf supported by classroom environments.
What is an excellent analogy to better understand exemplary teaching?
“If you give a man a fish you feed him for the day. If you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.”
