While reading chapter nine of Gebhard & Oprandy (2013), a couple things caught my

attention. The first of which was the idea of how experienced teachers should not tell

inexperienced student teachers how they should teach. I totally agree with that since doing so

will only create copies of those experienced teachers. I have always believed that teachers should

not be the same. Teaching, similar to many things, evolves and develop with time and

experience. Having different teaching methods and perspectives will almost always be better for

the students and the field as a whole. If we became copies of each other, the students might get

used to that one and only teaching method, which in my opinion, kills the creativity of the

learning process and experience.

Also, another thing that I found very interesting was the concept of self-observation. Both

experienced and inexperienced teachers can learn a lot from self-observing. We get to see what

worked during the class and what did not, and as a result, we change and adapt until we reach a

level of satisfaction for both ourselves and the students. Of course, no lesson is perfect, and we

should not even aim for that because situations happen. However, with more and more self-

observation, we can better ourselves each time to be the best version of ourselves as teachers in

the field.