By: Dre Querry, Grispina Sanchez, Hope Atchison, and Rose Arndt

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Reflection

• By Dre Querry, Grispina Sanchez, Hope Atchison,
  and Rose Arndt

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What is Reflection?

• Reflection is
• Thinking back
• Learning from mistakes
• Making changes in strategies
• Celebrating your successes

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Why Should I Reflect?

• Improves teaching
• Tend to be better
• At recognizing why students are making mistakes
• At analyzing teaching situations
• Problem solvers
• RememberM.I.R.R.O.R

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My Time Self Evaluation

• Your time to reflect on how to improve your
  teaching
• Self-evaluation
• Plan
• Deliver
• Debrief
• Examples Journals video

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Invite Learner Input

• Second opinion
• Students provide input on your teaching
• Survey
• Ask for feedback
• See from students perspective
• Benefits teachers and
• students

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Read Supervisor Comments

• Supervisors have significant classroom experience
• Carefully read comments
• Suggestions should
• always be welcome

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Reframe Your Teaching

• Think about your lesson from the viewpoint of
• Students
• Supervisors
• Yourself
• How to Reframe
• Use videotape
• Read supervisor comments and journals

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Why Should I Reframe?

• New insights for improving your instruction
• Address persistent problems
• Create reflective and thoughtful solutions

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Other Teachers Peer Reviews

• Feedback from proficient teachers
• Another source for suggestions
• Experienced teachers know what they are talking
  about
• Are currently in the field
• Know schools mission and goals
• DO NOT seek review from a new teacher or one that
  is a friend

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Resolve Problems

• Putting your reflections to work
• Improved teaching and learning
• Teachers goal is to touch the future of every
  student we teach
• Requires continuous improvement

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In Conclusion

• Reflection is thinking about your teaching
• Improves your teaching as well as your students
  learning

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RememberM.I.R.R.O.R

• My time
• Invite student input
• Read supervisor comments
• Reframe your teaching
• Other teachers
• Resolve problems
• and weaknesses

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Put It To Work!

• Ideas Mnemonic device, object, picture, word,
  etc
• What would you do to remember to
• Involve kinesthetic learners?
• Summarize main points in a lesson?
• Implement use of groups?

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Successful TeachersReflect!

• My time
• Invite learner input
• Read supervisor comments
• Reframe your teaching
• Other teachers
• Resolve problems and weaknesses
• 
  RememberM.I.R.R.O.R