Reflective Teaching

Reflective Teaching

1. What is it?

   • Approach to L2 classroom instruction
   • To examine attitudes, beliefs and teaching practices
   • Critical reflection

2. Importance

   • Better teaching
   • Innovations
   • New alternatives or strategies
   • Modifying teaching routines

3. Purposes

   • To expand our understanding
   • To expand our repertoire of strategic options
   • To take ownership of our own theories of language teaching
   • To enhance the quality of learning opportunities

4. Characteristics

   • Open-mindedness
   • Responsibility
   • Wholeheartedness

5. Types of teacher reflection

   • Reflection-on-action
     • Reflection-in-action
       • Reflection-for-action

6. Alternative traditions

   • Self-observation
   • Critical reflection and change

7. Topics explored by RTs

   • Communication patterns in the classroom
   • Teacher decision making
   • Ways in which learners apply knowledge
   • Te affective climate
   • Impacts of the classroom's physical environment
   • A teacher's self-assessment of growth and development as a professional

8. Tools

   • Five-minute papers
   • Formative teacher assessment surveys
   • Student focus groups
   • Retrospective field notes
   • Formative feedback

9. Challenges

   • The search for multiple perspectives
   • The question of learner involvement

10. The future of reflective teaching

    • Increasing teacher participation
    • Forging wider professional appreciation
    • To model, discuss, and share the results of reflective teaching

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