What is the importance of reflection? Yes! I groaned when I see a task asking me to reflect. Reading this, I think reflections on a lesson helps teachers to improve the quality of a lesson.
As a teacher myself, I don't do thorough reflection after my lessons (this as in when I am not during a Professional Experience). Just thoughts in my mind either the lesson was delivered smoothly or was not. Tamdubois had a similar experience like mine which she was reflecting little things on her own.
When I am doing the student's report, noting down their inability to grasp a concept, I would just think on how can I make that student understand. I still don't reflect on the lesson I conducted.
The benefits of reflective teaching is that we get to think about the student's input. By answering some questions during reflection, we (teachers) will be able to see if the lesson objective is met. The lesson objective can also be a guide when doing reflection on a lesson.
Other than that, reflecting after a lesson helps teachers to identify the unwanted things that were supposed to happen. For instance, having not enough material can take up the student's waiting time which could lead to restlessness amongst them. Restlessness amongst them may be the cause of their short attention span.
As Rhalmi (2011) stated that reflective teaching enable teachers to discover other ways of teaching and trying it out with their students. This is a great opportunity for teacher's development.
The down side of reflective teaching would be for the teachers. It takes time to reflect on lesson that we teach. Not forgetting the amount of works that we need to check!
I would like to practice making reflections after my lessons. I think it can guide me to become more explorative in my teaching skills.
Reference:
Rhalmi, M. (2011). Reflective teaching and action search. Retrieved October 27, 2016, from http://www.myenglishpages.com/blog/reflective-teaching-and-action-research/
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