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1. Integrating Culture in the
Language Classroom
Iris Moye and
Leslie Opp-Beckman
University of Oregon

2. Topics, Session 10
•Announcements
•What is Reflective Teaching?
•Purposes and Benefits of RT
•Activity 1:
•Tools for RT
•Teacher Diary Suggestions

3. Topics, Session 10
•Teacher Diary Suggestions
•Activity 2:
•Student Feedback Examples
•Analyzing Your Evidence
•Activity 3:
•Conclusion, Q & A

4. Announcements
•Introductions
•Homework to share?
We are continuing the series,
starting November 2005.
For information, see:
http://thaiuo.uoregon.edu

5. What is Reflective
Teaching?
Three attitudes are necessary for
us to become reflective teachers:
1. Open-mindedness.
2. Responsibility.
3. Wholeheartedness.
(J. Dewey, A Handbook for Reflective Teaching)

6. What is Reflective
Teaching?
• Exploring underlying beliefs.
• Self-observation, evaluation.
• Process of observing and
collecting information:
-- our own behaviors
-- those of our learners.

7. What is Reflective
Teaching?
• A means to institute
meaningful changes and
improvements in our teaching.
• A beneficial form of
professional
development.

8. Purposes /
Benefits
• To expand our understanding of
the teaching/learning process.
• To enlarge our repertoire of
options as language teachers.
• To enhance learning
opportunities for our
students.

9. Activity #1
Small Group Task, Analysis
Think about a lesson you have
recently taught. Describe a part of
a lesson that went well and why this
was so. Describe a part of a lesson
that didn’t go well. What
might you do differently to
make that part go better?

10. Tools
•Lesson notes.
•Teacher diary.
•Peer observation.
•Video or audio class recordings.
•Student feedback.
•Professional portfolio

11. Teacher Diaries
Suggestions
(Adapted from: BBC/British Council. (2004). Think, Writing
a Teaching Diary.)
Lesson objectives: Did the students
understand what we did and why we did it?
Was it something all learners could do?
challenged the faster learners?
Materials and activities:
Appropriate to our goals?
Appeal to the students?

12. Teacher Diaries
Suggestions, continued:
•Learners: Were they on task? If not, when
and why? Which parts engaged them most?
Least? How much English did they use?
•Management: How was the pacing and
timing? What were the interaction formats
(groups, etc)? Did they work?
Were my directions clear?
•Overall: If I teach the lesson again,
what will I do differently?

13. Activity #2
Small Group Task, Brainstorm
It’s the middle of a course.You
observe that many of the students
don’t seem to be interested in the
course. How could you
find out what some of the
problems might be?

14. Student Feedback
Examples
• Five-minute papers.
• Smiley Faces for younger
learners.
• Stop, Start, Continue.
• Other?

15. Analyzing Your
Data / Evidence
• Think.
• Talk / Ask.
• Read.

16. Activity #3
Three-minute Papers
Write: What is the one thing you are
most likely to remember from
today’s session? Explain why you
will remember it, and what its
relevance is to your teaching
situation. Share your
response with your group.

17. Conclusion
•What are you (and the learners)
doing?
•Why are you doing it?
•How effective is it?
•How are the students
responding?
•How can you do it better?

18. Reflective Teaching
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