1. Reasons for reflective teaching
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2. Defining reflective teaching
Reflective teaching is thinking about your teaching through both
self-evaluation and evaluation by your colleagues.
Reflective teaching does not mean criticizing your own teaching.
It also means recognizing what is going well and thinking why it
is going well.
W a s m y
e x p l a n a t i o n
c l e a r ?

3. What does a reflective teacher do?
What should I do to
change next time? What
else could I use to help
them to understand?

4. Questioning your aims and actions
You need to question your aims and actions because you need
to be very clear on what you want to achieve and how you
intend to achieve it. Your actions may encourage or discourage
learning.
As you plan for the next lesson, there is need to think about the
topic of the lesson, the content you intend to cover during the
lesson, the activities the pupils will be involved in and, your own
actions at each step of the lesson. As you go to the class, will
then be aware of what to say, how to say it and what other
materials will help you achieve the same aims.

5. "Like other professionals, teachers cannot become
effective by following scripts. Instead, they need to create
knowledge in use as they practice ... knowledge does not
exist apart from teacher and context."
Thomas Sergiovanni, Moral Leadership

6. Becoming an Early Childhood
Teacher: Questions to Consider
• Do I have what it takes to become a good educator of the
very young?
• What do I believe about how young children learn?
• Why do I want to work with young children?
• How do I think about concepts such as equity, diversity,
and fairness?
• What personal qualities and abilities do I possess that
will make me successful in working with young children?
• What kind of early childhood teacher do I want to
become?
• How will I demonstrate my commitment to young
children through my work?

7. Teaching in Early Childhood
Teaching in early childhood requires a
calling considering the following:
1. Complexity of teaching
•Content
•Relationships
2. Involves special responsibility

8. Reflective Practice
• Rethink, reconsider, reflect, rework craft
• Decision making
• Assess consequences
• Consider what has been called to mind

9. Starting the Process of
Reflection: Questions to Ask
• What led me to this career choice?
• How are my personal characteristics
matched to the job?

10. Process of Reflection
•Thinking of myself as a teacher
•Seeing the child
•Hypothesizing
•Questioning
•Trying out
•Reflecting afterwards

11. Levels of Reflection
1. Self as Teacher
2. Task of Teaching in Context
3. Focus on Outcomes for Students

12. Dispositions of a Reflective
Practitioner
•Open-mindedness
•Responsibility
•Wholeheartedness
•Mindful/Relationship-Based
Practices

13. Characteristics of the Reflective
Educator
• Active
• searches for information to problems
• Persistent
• thinks through difficult issues in depth
and without tire
• Careful
• expresses concern for self and others
• respects students as human beings
• creates a positive, nurturing classroom

14. Cont…
• Skeptical
• realizes there are few absolutes
• maintains healthy skepticism about
educational theories and practices
• Rational
• demands evidence and applies criteria
when making judgments
• Proactive
• reflective thinking translated into positive
action

15. What Is Your Disposition to
Become a Reflective Practitioner?
• Commitment to children
• Interest & understanding of children’s
development
• Positive outlook on children & families
• Risk-taking & learning from mistakes
• Flexibility in thinking & ability to adapt
• Mastering content & pedagogy
• Build sense of community; collaboration &
support
• Address problems & make ethical decisions
• Pursue professional growth

16. Significance of reflective teaching
Enables you to:
Adjust lesson plans to differences between classes and
children
Vary the methodology according to such factors as
(1) kinds of children in the class;
(2) purpose of the lesson;
(3) ability of the children to accept responsibility
Modify activities and lessons to available equipment and
facilities
Attempt to understand management problems and then
seek the causes, modifying teaching procedure
accordingly
Regularly assess the children and also seek constructive
criticism about their teaching from children and colleagues

17. "Be a reflective teacher. Honestly
look at what you do from time to
time. Evaluate the purpose of your
role as a teacher."- Robert John
Meehan

18. Thank you