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Act of Teaching Chap 14
Act of Teaching Chap 14
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
It holds both immediate and long- term benefits for you as a teacher.
Enhance your learning about teaching
Increase your ability to analyze classroom events.
Improve your classroom life
Enables you to monitor yourself, personal and professional growth
Enhances your learning about teaching (this is very important).
Four things needed to learn how to reflect on teaching.
Have a concrete learning experience such as grading, home work papers for
your co-operating teacher.
Have an opportunity to reflect on the experience by recapturing and
evaluating it.
Integrate your reflections with what you already know and believe about
learning hence recognizing new way of doing it.
The reflective thinking process; descriptive, comparative and evaluative (Jay, 1999;
Jay&Johnson, 2002).
Descriptive- involves describing what happened. Comparative involves exploring
alternative perspectives or interpretations that help you understand why the event
happened that way. Evaluative involves moving beyond describing and
understanding an event and seeing it from another point of view to making a
judgment about how best to proceed with making changes.
Becoming a reflective teachers
Portfolio- provides a structural opportunity for you to document and describe your
teaching and learning.