Module 1 Reflective Teaching Practice Eds 113

Leo Migdal

-Dec 10, 2025, 7:01 AM

module 1 reflective teaching practice eds 113

This module will cover the following areas: Benefits for professional growth and student outcomes Role in fostering a culture of continuous improvement Mezirow's transformative learning theory Establishing reflective routines and habits We reflect on our day to day activities, events.

problems and conflicts. Reflecting help us to learn from the previous experience. We have realization and analyzation such as what happened? how do you feel about it? what do you think in the situation? why it didn’t work out?

what you have done? what we have to do if it will happen again? Those are guiding questions when I reflect. In my teaching practice, I usually reflect at the end of the day and when something arose. I evaluate my skills, performance and how I teach my students. I critically reflect in my teaching practice for me to learn new things.

It provide me better teaching strategies and methodologies. As teacher, I usually reflect on my experiences, teaching plans/journals, assessment/evaluations, feedback from my students and coworkers. I also analyze my priorities and goals for me to determine where and what I need to improve and what adjustments I have to make. Thus, I learn how to solve complicated and challenging problems. Furthermore, I gain knowledge when I attend tseminars and workshops that will improve the learning outcomes. At the start of this module, my thoughts on reflection were as follows:

To me, reflection means to look within myself and see the reasons for my actions. It allows me to understand myself more and move toward goals that would be aligned with my passions and values. Reflection is done by thinking about my thoughts, feelings, and actions as objectively as possible. It is important to see how I impact others, and how I could do things in a better way. I believe incorporating reflection in the teaching practice is very important. A teacher impacts students in many ways, and so one must be mindful of his actions.

After doing the tasks in this module, I can say that my thoughts about reflection have definitely expanded. I also realized that I made a lot of assumptions during my reflection! If I were to revise my initial statement, it would be as follows: To me, reflection means to look within myself and see the reasons for my actions. It allows me to understand myself more and move toward goals that would be aligned with my passions and values. Reflection is done by thinking about my thoughts, feelings, and actions as objectively as possible.

It is important to see how I impact others, and how I could do things in a better way. To reflect more thoroughly, using Gibbs’ cycle of reflection would help create a structure for reflection. Having a journal dedicated to professional development and reflecting on a regular schedule would be most fruitful. During reflection, one should be critical, hunt for assumptions and consider the perspectives of others. I believe incorporating reflection in teaching practice is very important. A teacher impacts students in many ways, and so one must be mindful of his actions.

Reflection also helps a teacher to take charge of his own professional development and not just go with the tide, thus improving teaching practice in ways that are relevant to students and the community. This does not stay within the classroom but expands to social and political contexts as well. I must admit that while I think of myself as a reflective person, I’ve never thought about reflection itself. I never thought about the theories behind it or the steps and advantages of reflecting. I especially did not realize the importance of reflection for teaching. The readings particularly mentioned that the only way you can grow as a teacher is to reflect, and I found myself agreeing with them.

Reflection is how we know who we are (Scales, 2008). I especially did not realize that hunting for assumptions and using different lenses are crucial in reflection (Brookfield, 1995a; Brookfield, 1995b). Being an organized person while playing all of my main roles in life as a student, as a mother, and as a wife, I have practiced being organized by making assessment, evaluation and reflection... I make sure to reflect on my thoughts, doings and actions in order to perform improvement every now and then. In teaching, I have come to realize that reflection is not as simple as I thought it was. After studying the module, I got to understand how significant it is to be aware of self strengths and weaknesses as a professional teacher.

Learning critical reflection is challenging, I think. Being aware of its significance, how to do it and the theories behind it require time and effort. But that is what we are here for as aspiring professional – public school teachers, right? Since this module has awaken and added necessary information that I should always carry, now what are the steps I am going to take to be able to improve?

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