Reflective teaching is a process where teachers think critically about their teaching practices by analyzing lessons and looking for ways to improve student learning outcomes. It involves self-evaluation techniques like peer observation, journaling, and recording lessons to better understand classroom interactions. Reflective teaching supports teachers' professional development and helps them meet rising educational standards by ensuring they are aware of each student's learning and tailoring instruction appropriately.

1. REFLECTIVE TEACHING AS INNOVATIVE APPROACH

2. Dewey believed that teachers should take time to reflect
on their observations, knowledge, and experience so that
they can effectively nurture each child's learning.

3. Reflective Teaching
• Reflective teaching is a process where teachers
think over their teaching practices,
analyzing how something was taught and how the
practice might be improved or changed for better
learning outcomes.
It is a systematic reflection on teachers’ practices
within the classroom.

4. Reflective teaching is a personal tool that teachers can
use to observe and evaluate the way they behave
in their classroom.
Helps teachers in their professional development
self-awareness is a powerful ally for a teacher,
especially when so much of what and how
they teach.
Purpose of Reflective Teaching

5. Approaches to Reflective teaching
Peer observation
Peer observation can provide opportunities for teachers to view
each other’s teaching in order to expose them to different teaching
styles and to provide opportunities for critical reflection on their
own teaching.
 Each participant would both observe and be observed
 Pre-observation orientation session
 The observation
 Post-observation

6. Written Accounts of Experiences
Another useful way of engaging in the
reflective process is through the use of
written accounts of experiences.
Their potential is increasingly being recognized
in Teacher Education.

7. Self Reporting
 Self Reporting involves completing an inventory or check list in
which the teacher indicates which teaching practices were used
within a lesson or within a specified time period and how often
they were employed.
 Self Reporting allows teachers to make a regular assessment of
what they are doing in the classroom. They can check to see to
what extent their assumptions about their own teaching are
reflected in their actual teaching practices.

8. Journal Writing
A procedure which is becoming more widely acknowledged as a
valuable tool for developing critical reflection is the journal or diary.
o To provide a record of the significant learning experiences that has
taken place
o To help the teacher come into touch and keep in touch with the self-
development process that is taking place for them
o To provide the teacher with an opportunity to express, in a personal
and dynamic way, their self-development
o To foster a creative interaction

9. Recording Lessons
 Audio or video recording of lessons can also provide a basis for reflection.
 While there are many useful insights to be gained from diaries and self-
reports, they cannot capture the moment to moment processes of teaching.
 Many things happen simultaneously in a classroom, and some aspects of a
lesson cannot be recalled.
 Many significant classroom events may not have been observed by the
teacher, let alone remembered.

10. Reflective teaching in an age of standards
 Becoming a reflective teacher can help to keep track of what we are doing and
what each child is learning and, in turn, help children meet the early learning
standards.
 Reflective teaching will help to slow down and take time to notice and enjoy
the amazing things children do each day and the important ways we contribute
to their learning.
 Reflection can be seen as a responsibility, but it can also be viewed as a right of
early childhood teachers.
 Quality programs will invest in teachers’ abilities to be reflective, thoughtful
decision makers.
 As rising early learning standards bring changes, teachers deserve to be seen
as active collaborators, not compliant observers in the change process.

11. Advantages of Reflective Teaching
 Reflective teaching develops the quality of teaching through continuous
improvements.
 It gives educators new opportunities to reflect on and assess their
teaching.
 It enables teachers to explore and test new ideas, methods, approaches,
and materials.
 It provides opportunity to assess how effective the new approaches were.
 Teachers share feedback with fellow team members.
 They make decisions about which new approaches to include in the
school’s curriculum, instruction, and assessment plans

12. Conclusion
 A reflective approach to teaching involves changes in the way we usually
perceive teaching and our role in the process of teaching.
 Teachers who explore their own teaching through critical reflection develop
changes in attitudes and awareness which they believe can benefit their
professional growth as teachers, as well as improve the kind of support they
provide their students.
Reflective teaching suggests that experience alone is insufficient for
professional growth, but that experience coupled with reflection can be a
powerful impetus for teacher development.

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