Reflective Teaching as a Strategy for Teacher Growth. D. Cruickshank, Jane H. Applegate. Published 1 April 1981. Education. Educational Leadership. I f we hope to improve teaching we must encourage practitioners to practice their art with an eye to ward improvement. What seems to be needed is a strategy by which teach ers can engage in teaching teaching. 2. Learning from reflective practice There is a good range of evidence that purposeful reflection helps ‗deep' learning take place, and for you as a teacher, it will help you to make connections between different aspects of your teaching and what goes on around your teaching. Reflective practice Reflective Teacher An empowered teacher is a reflective decision maker who finds joy in learning and in investigating the teaching/learning process—one who views learning as construction and teaching as a facilitating process to enhance and enrich development. —Fosnot (1989, p. xi) Chapter Objectives The facilitator will Reflective Language Teaching Reflective Language Teaching: Practical Applications for TESOL Teachers is an extensively revised and updated second edition of the popular and accessible text Reflective Language Teaching: From Research to Practice originally published in 2008. This fully up-to-date second edition includes: · an expanded preface the advantages of practicing reflective teaching are: (1) make teachers more aware what they actually do, (2) promote collegial sharing if the data collected in professional contexts involving Reflective teaching is defined as looking backfor teacher's own teaching. It includesthinking and rethinking about one's performance before, during and after class activities.Instructorshave toreflect about the problems of students which are likely to happen during achievement of targeted goals. Reflective teaching is a beneficial process in teacher professional development, both for pre-service and in-service teachers. Ur (1999) says that the first and most important basis for professional progress is simply the teachers' own reflection on daily classroom events. So, she gives emphasis to personal progress through reflecting on one Reflection on Teaching Page 1 of 3 Often lost in the midst of conversations about the evaluation of teaching is the role of the individual practitioner, who plays a significant part in crafting her own narrative and creating her teaching strategy, student performance on a test, feedback from a teaching mentor, and so on. Pick a starting 200 "Reflective practice is something more than thoughtful practice. It is that form of practice that seeks to problematise many situations of professional performance so that they can become potential learning situations and so the practitioners can con-tinue to learn, grow and develop in and through practice" [5].In reflective thought, a person examines underlying assumptions, core Teaching: the Reflective Profession Promoting Teacher Professionalism General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland. 3 Teaching in the Knowledge Society and Economy 7 Vision and Mission Teachers for the Twenty-First Century Creativity at the Heart of Education Value-Based Practice: Charter and Code Reflective teaching is a process where teachers think over their teaching practices, analyzing how something was taught and how the practice might be improved or changed for better learning A reflective teacher is able to keep records of incidents, problems and issues that truly concern herself as a pr