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Teachers’ Attitudes towards Reflective Teaching

Reflective teaching

Schön (1987): "Reflection in action" Is a reflection in which the teacher find a new sense to uncertain and conflictive situations.

Cruickshank (1981): The reflection is thinking about what happens in clasroom lessons and thinking alternatives.

Dewey (1933): “an integration of attitudes

and skills in the methods of inquiry”. open the mind in class to take action searching alternatives.

Process of reflection by Dewey

1. The reflection start in the social.

2. Teacher should be interested in the issue or problem.

3. The issue is derived of the practice of teacher.

4. The reflection is about solve problems of teaching situations in whichthe teacher is located.

5. The issue and the solultion is teacher's property.

6. Teacher's ideas sould be tested in the teacher's practice.

7. The tested ideas promote a course of action.

8. The reflective actions may be in a new practice.

9. Tested practice sould produce a change.

10. Reflective actions produce changes in teaching

Teachers’ Reflective Thinking

Boud et al (1985): suggest that knowing our practice is central to learning to reflect upon it and that this process of reflection involves both looking back and looking forward.

Improve our future teaching

professional experience

in the process of “understanding the self”.

The principal question to encourage the reflective thinking is What kind of teacher are you?

Produce reflective thinking in

Teaching shape.

Direction.

Awareness in purpose.

Open to inspection and critique.

Meighan (1990): Suggests three differents ways as techers construct learners.

As a registers

As a receptacles

As a raw material

This construction reflect individual teacher's views of the world.

Perception of teaching

Teacher controlled

Direct process

Responsible for

their students’

Source available for the students

culture of teaching”

Teacher's Beliefs system are founded on the goals values and beliefs. and these values sereve as the background in the decisions making and action.

Richards

Summarizes the teacher's belief systems in different sources.

(a) their own experience as language

learners.

(b) their experience of what works

best.

(c) established practice.

(d) personality factors.

(e) educational based or research.

(f) principles derived from an approach or method.

Teachers` innovation.

Is necesary to change the pratice teaching in the school and is a consecuence of reflective teching.

Produce

Improving Teaching.

Implemented actionsand followed them.

innovating in the practice meant seemed to be motivating.