How Reflection Improves My Teaching Practice?
“ We do not learn from experience…. We learn from reflecting on experience” John Dewey. Thoughtful reflection is a part of every day. 50 minutes to work and 50 minutes home gives me opportunities to improve my practice. I work through lesson planning that did not achieve the goals I had set. I think about the student who I observed who has more socks than shoes under his feet. I consider the disengaged student and wonder what is going on in their life that is causing them to come in day after day and engage minimally in my programme. One of the things I don’t do well is write down reflections. When I write reflections, usually in my plan book, I note that I am repeating some of the issues day after day that I have observed, or that I have not come up with a sustainable change that I can make to my practice. This issue will be a major focus for 2018 as I believe that spending more written time at the end of the day will have the biggest effect on student achievement th...