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What are the benefits of reflection for your professional development and career goals?

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As a teacher, you face many challenges and opportunities every day. How do you make sense of your experiences and learn from them? How do you improve your practice and achieve your career goals? One powerful tool that can help you is reflection. Reflection is the process of thinking deeply and critically about your actions, beliefs, and outcomes, and identifying areas for growth and change. In this article, we will explore the benefits of reflection for your professional development and career goals, and how you can incorporate it into your daily routine.

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1 Why reflect?

Reflection can help you become a more effective and confident teacher by allowing you to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses, address any gaps or misconceptions in your knowledge and skills, recognize and celebrate successes, learn from mistakes and failures, understand student needs, interests, and perspectives, develop creativity and innovation, enhance critical thinking and problem-solving skills, connect theory and practice, and align values with actions. Setting realistic goals for improvement, seeking feedback from others, building self-esteem and motivation, developing resilience and coping strategies, trying new strategies in the classroom, applying relevant research to your teaching, and fostering a sense of purpose as a teacher are all great steps towards becoming an effective teacher.

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Dr. Tiffany Rehbein

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Reflection demonstrates a level of thoughtfulness tied to emotional intelligence. Collaboration with an instructional coach with reflective practices can have profound and positive impacts on teaching.

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Cassandra Sparrold Shute

Costumer | Historian | Creative Curriculum Architect | Servant Leader | Quantitative Impact Driven Educator | Non-Profit Assistant Director | Project Manager | Team Design
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Additionally, reflective teaching allows for discernment of patterns that help identify various opportunities, not just tied to instruction. It's the ability to identify these patterns that allow us to tackle other societal obligations, particularly if a child is experiencing a situation that makes learning a struggle. This documentation allows us to "tag in" an appropriate expert with concrete dates for varying events. I found that I am also able to remind myself of what I'd learned and what my evidence was to support those conclusions. As someone who is responsible for teaching a variety of learning styles and neurodivergencies, AS a neurodivergent myself, it's critical to be able to look back and review progress.

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Pansy Gee

Educational consultant-coach-mentor-seminar facilitator
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Reflection is hard. It takes courage to look honestly at yourself and it takes the want to improve not for one’s own pride, but for the students the teacher faces every day!

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2 How to reflect?

Reflection is an important part of teaching, and there are many ways to do it. Keeping a journal or portfolio can be a great way to record your thoughts, feelings, and observations on your teaching. It can also be helpful to engage in dialogue with a mentor, colleague, or peer to share your experiences and get feedback. Certain frameworks or models, such as the Gibbs cycle or the STAR method, can provide structure for reflection. Asking yourself questions such as “What? So what? Now what?” can also help in prompting reflection. Evidence or data such as student work, test scores, surveys, or observations can be used to inform reflection. Furthermore, participating in professional learning communities or networks can provide an opportunity to collaborate with other teachers and reflect on practice.

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3 When to reflect?

Reflection can be done before, during, or after teaching, and it can be focused on different aspects of teaching such as planning, delivery, assessment, or evaluation. It can also target different levels of teaching, like individual actions, interactions with others, or impact on the wider context. Depending on the purpose and goal of reflection, it can be used to prepare for a lesson by anticipating challenges and setting objectives; monitor progress and adjust strategies during teaching; or review performance and identify areas for improvement after teaching.

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Pansy Gee

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An important step in planning or creating any lesson is for the teacher to try it-do it before teaching it! This helps the “anticipation” mentioned above. What steps; what processes; how much time; as well as what needs to be taught specifically so each student is successful. Neither Activities nor assessments should be “gotcha” events.

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4 What are the challenges of reflection?

Reflection can be difficult and uncomfortable, as it requires time, effort, honesty, and openness. You may face challenges such as a lack of time or space in a busy work environment, a lack of support or guidance, a lack of structure or direction, or a lack of motivation or confidence. Without access to a mentor, colleague, or peer to facilitate your reflection, and without a clear framework or model to help you organize and focus your reflection, it can be hard to see the value of it and to feel confident in your teaching.

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Pansy Gee

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It’s a challenge even to teach at the lowest of efforts. To ask to reflect is to ask to put in even more energy, more thought, more of one’s self. Everyone’s go to of course is “time”! “I don’t have time.” Time can’t be invented. It can be managed or used as an excuse.

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5 How to overcome the challenges of reflection?

Despite the challenges, reflection is worth pursuing as it can help you grow and develop as a teacher, and achieve your professional development and career goals. To overcome the challenges of reflection, you can make time or space for it, seek support or guidance from others, use structure or direction to guide your reflection, and build motivation or confidence. Additionally, you can find a mentorship or partnership, create a framework or model, set specific or SMART goals, recognize and reward your efforts, seek and provide positive feedback, and celebrate or share your learning or insights.

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Pansy Gee

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Asking for a coach, mentor, or even “critical friend” that will hold you accountable. Forming a habit on your own is hard in an already difficult profession.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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Pansy Gee

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Reading an article, even one as good as this won’t make anyone become a reflective teacher. Reflection comes from within. It comes from a brave desire to look at one’s self honestly and digging deep inside for the energy and time to make the changes.

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1 Why reflect?

2 How to reflect?

3 When to reflect?

4 What are the challenges of reflection?

5 How to overcome the challenges of reflection?

6 Here’s what else to consider

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