WHAT IS REFLECTIVE TEACHING? As a teacher, you will have days when you finish teaching only to find your mind racing with thoughts about lessons completed. We should spend time and energy to develop understandings through reflective teaching. By: Seyed Mojtaba Jafari

1. By: Seyed Mojtaba Jafari
Allameh Tabataba’i University
SM_Jafari@atu.ac.ir
Reflective Teaching
Principles and Practices

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-Think over their teaching
practices
-Analyzing how something
was taught
-How the practice might be
improved or changed for
better learning outcomes

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It develops the
quality of teaching
through continues
improvements
It gives educators
new opportunities
to reflect on and
assess their
teaching
It enables teachers to
explore and test new
ideas, methods,
approaches, and materials
It provides opportunity to
assess how effective the
new approaches were
Teachers share feedback
with fellow team
members
They make decisions about
which new approaches to
include in the school’s
curriculum, instruction,
and assessment plans.
Advantages of
Reflective
Teaching

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Teaching experience
Alone is insufficient
As a basis for
Continuing development

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The purpose of reflective teaching
are:01 To expand our understandings of the
teaching learning prosses
To expand our repertoire of
strategic options as language
teachers
To take ownership of our own
theories of language teaching as
informed by teaching practice
To enhance the quality of
learning opportunities we are
able to provide in language
classrooms
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