Reflection

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Reflection

• EDT 338
• Chapter 14

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What skills do effective teachers possess?

• Chapter 10
• Enthusiastic (Ellis, 2001)
• Interest and involvement (Good Brophy, 2000)
• Warm and humorous
• Credible
• Holding high expectations
• Self-fulfilling prophecy
• Sustained expectations (Cooper and Tom, 1984)

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What skills do effective teachers possess?

• Encouraging and supportive (Ornstein Lasley,
  2000)
• Businesslike (Chall, 2000)
• Task-oriented and businesslike classroom demeanor
• Goal-oriented
• Organized
• Adaptable/flexible
• Knowledgeable

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What skills do effective teachers possess?

• Chapter 11
• Establishing set
• Using variety
• Optimizing instructional time
• Using questions
• Providing clear instruction
• Monitoring students progress
• Providing feedback and reinforcement

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Reflective Practitioners

• Routinely and purposefully deliberate on teaching
• Open-minded (Dewey, 1933)
• Willing to question own views
• View situations from multiple perspectives
• Search for alternative explanations
• Use evidence (data) to support or evaluate
  decision
• Take responsibility

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Reflective Practitioner

• Sincere
• Investigate their teaching
• Spirit of inquiry
• Want to learn about teaching from both theory and
  practice
• Student of teaching

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Benefits of Reflective Teaching

• Enhances learning about teaching
• Increases ability to analyze and understand
  classroom events
• Enhances classroom life
• Self-monitoring
• Personal and professional transformation

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Theory to Practice

• Turn to page 433
• Read the section
• A Tale of Two Student Teachers
• Analyze the two teachers reflection (use a
  graphic organizer to present your data)

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Developing Reflective Abilities

• Dialogue journals
• Play back what happened
• Provides feedback on the situation and your
  thinking
• Discussions
• Focused and purposeful
• Describe what you did
• Inform
• Confront
• Reconstruct
• Portfolios

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• Action Research
• Process of conducting classroom research to
  answer questions or solve problems
• Aids teachers in understanding their teaching
• Block/Student teaching