Thursday, 16 November 2017
Reflective thinking -
When first looking at Reflection the idea critiquing myself against myself was quite foreign to me, but the longer I teach the more i see and feel it is one of the ways I can improve myself and produce a better teacher.
Now self review and reflection has become part of the teachers habit- feedback and feedforward is all part of the routine.
In, Finlay 2008 p4, the five level of reflection: Rapid, Repair, Review are commonly used in our daily teaching practice and this is on the sport reflection, the other two reflections, Research, Retheorizing and Reformulating are often the reflection processes left to when you as a teacher have the time to do so. These last two reflections are the ones that allow you to go deeper and confirm your OTJ's.
The in depth study allows me as the teacher to research the topic/ issues and find out the route cause or the effect and address it, plan for it, process it improve it. Ghaye, 2000, p7
I look forward to adding more as I go on reflecting over the weeks to come.
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You raised some interesting points here Paul, and yes initially it is hard to stop and look at yourself critically without being negative. I think if you use Finlay's five levels you can get a much deeper critique of your teaching practice that affirms as well as dig deeper.
ReplyDeleteFinding the time to do a "good job" to your self reflection is always a challenge to us as teachers, but its important time that we need to set aside and see as an investment not in just our teaching practice but also as an investment in the children we teach.