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Reflective Reflection Essay

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Reflection is they key to growing and developing any new skill. With teaching being such a complex skill that involves many layers of practice and theory, it requires equally in depth reflection in a variety of formats. Watching my teaching video in front of the class helped me get over my self-consciousness and provided me with a number of action points moving forward. I feel motivated from the character and lesson based glows, challenged by the management based glows, and directed by the detail oriented “next steps” that I received through this feedback session. The first glow that I received was pertaining to my character and teaching presence. The adjectives that I collected were: calm, firm, confident, warm, and consistent, which …show more content…

This is a very real problem in all of my classes, and typically comes from the quicker students in those classes regardless of class level. I think that it can be easy to let happen because teachers have a bias of seeing these students as “good students” and do not see any immediate harm from shouting out. However, if this continues, it creates a negative culture of uncertainty for the rest of the students and does not prepare them for effective discussion. In reflecting on these grows and glows, as well as general comments that I heard, I came up with two separate action steps that I can do immediately. The intention is that these are less conceptual and more of a direct and precise change that I can make tomorrow. The first “next step” is to avoid facing away from the students so much when I am writing on the board. In the cases when I am facing away or writing, it is also important for me to avoid giving any important instruction until I have face the students again. The second “next step” is to reach out to more students to confirm the answers that I get from a cold call. I have struggled with this because we don’t use hand signals in our classroom as per my host teachers preference, but I think that it can be done more intentionally if I am tracking data on it. For instance, if I know the students who went through and did a certain set of math, then I can call on them to confirm the work. This

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