Teacher Reflection and Evaluation

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Teacher Reflection and Evaluation
It is important in any career to reflect on your day, week, month, and even year. It is important to grow and improve yourself. Effective teachers know what to do and why to do it (Danielson, 2009). As a teacher you are faced with many problems throughout the day. It is easy to focus on just the problems that are going on in you classroom. It is easy to focus on Johnny’s behavior and complain about it to your co-workers. There comes a time that you need to ask yourself, “What can I do to help Johnny improve?” At this time you should sit down and reflect on what you have done and other objectives you can do.
Reflection is essential for growth. If one is just looking at a lesson, a child’s behavior, or one’s own actions, a teacher should always reflect. Reflection for a teacher should be at the beginning of the year, weekly or a few days a week, monthly, and most important at the end of the year. Having this time to sit down and have a deep thought process is good for the teacher to improve and grow.
Reflective Practices
A teacher has complex choices to make throughout the day. These complex choice cause a different type of thinking. In a way a teacher needs to use the Bloom’s model to reflect. One needs to start by remembering, then analyzing, and finally evaluating. Then the difficult parts of the reflection process the change. According to Danielson (2009), there are four models of thinking: technological, situational, deliberate, and dialectional.
Technological thinking is common knowledge that comes from an external source. This is information like daily routines, schedules, etc. This thinking is considered the effective and efficient thinking process (Danielson, 2009).
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...tuation and all possible outcomes. It is important to share your refection with co-workers (not every reflection).
Reflecting on lessons, professional, and self is essential. Reflecting should only take about 10-20 minutes. If you take time to reflect you will be impressed with your student’s improvement and your own improvement.

Works Cited

Bauer, G. (2010). Become a reflective practitioner, retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWnpsiwmups&feature=youtu.be

Brigden, D. & Purcell, N. (2014). Focus: Becoming a reflective practitioner. Retrieved from
://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/subjects/medev/Focus_Becoming_a_reflective _practitioner

Danielson, L. (2009). Fostering Reflection. In Educational Leadership, 66(5). Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb09/vol66/num05/Fostering- Reflection.aspx

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