week #14: Teacher development through reflective teaching

According to the reading; “Since the early eighties a number of approaches to teacher development have been proposed and implemented in classrooms. These approaches include the teachers-as-researchers, action research, clinical supervision, and the critical pedagogy perspective, among others”.

I think reflective teaching is very important since the teachers organize themselves before start a class. “According to Julie Tice, Reflective teaching means looking at what you do in the classroom, thinking about why you do it, and thinking about if it works - a process of self-observation and self-evaluation. By collecting information about what goes on in our classroom and by analyzing and evaluating this information”. So according to this information, I think that an effective teaching teacher is the person who really cares about the students necessities. It is a person that improves his/her knowledge in order to give his/her best in class. It is the person who motivates, and helps his/her students to give their best.