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What is reflective teaching?

Reflective teaching involves examining one's underlying beliefs about

teaching and learning and one's alignment with actual classroom practice
before, during and after a course is taught. When teaching reflectively,
instructors think critically about their teaching and look for evidence of
effective teaching.

What is the importance of reflective teaching?

Reflective practice develops your ability to understand how your students

learn and the best ways to teach them. By reflecting on your teaching,
you identify any barriers to learning that your students have.

How does reflective teaching help teachers?

It helps teachers to take informed actions that can be justified and

explained to others and that can be used to guide further action. It allows
teachers to adjust and respond to issues. It helps teachers to become
aware of their underlying beliefs and assumptions about learning and
teaching.

What are the characteristics of reflective teaching?

Some characteristics of a reflective teacher include the ability to self-

analyse, identify their own strengths, weaknesses, objectives and threats,
as well as good time-management skills, organisation, patience, self-
acceptance, and the well for, and implementation of, self-improvement
of self and teaching practices.

What is the best strategy of reflective practice of a

teacher?

Reflective teaching means that you take a look at what you do in your
classroom, and think about why you do it. Then, think about whether this
works for your students and for yourself. Why is reflection important in
teaching? Well, when reflecting, you're collecting information about what
goes on in your classroom.

What’s are the three benefits of reflective teaching?

No matter what approach you take, the most important concept to

remember is that reflective teaching requires an openness to
observation, self-assessment, and experimentation. By remaining open to
change, you will open yourself—and your students—up to improvement.

How can reflective teaching be applied in the

classroom?

In a reflective practice, this theory is applied in classroom. The teacher

observes the results, reflects on them, and then adapts the theory to
meet the specific classroom needs. This means that the teacher is
constantly discovering what works best in the classroom to enhance
learning.

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What are the components of reflective teaching?

• Mutual respect
• Intentional use of space
• A culture of questioning
• Thoughtful silence
• Student-to-student discussion

What is the cycle of reflective teaching?

Description
First, describe the situation in detail. At this stage, you simply want to
know what happened – you'll draw conclusions later.

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Feelings
Next, describe how you thought and felt during the experience. At this
stage, avoid commenting on your emotions.

Evaluation
Now you need to encourage yourself to look objectively at what
approaches worked, and which ones didn't.

Conclusions
Once you've evaluated the situation, you can help your yourself draw
conclusions about what happened.
Encourage yourself to think about the situation again, using the
information that you've collected so far.

Action
You should now have some possible actions that you can take to deal
with similar situations more effectively in the future.
In this last stage, you need to come up with a plan so that you can make
these changes.
Once you've identified the areas you will work on, get yourself to commit
to taking action, and agree a date on which you will review progress.