Reflective Practice in Teaching

“Perhaps the most outstanding feature of the professional is the capacity for self-evaluation and self-improvement through rigorous and systematic research and study of his or her own practice.”

 

Reflection is ‘a way of thinking about educational matters that involves the ability to make rational choices and to assume responsibility for those choices’

• Seeing teaching as problematic;
• Seeing the theory/practice relationship as problematic;
• Realising the personal experience of teaching is individualistic;
• Having a will to learn;
• Having and ability to notice (i.e. to learn from observation)