Reflection: Similarities And Differences In The Classroom

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We identify our own weakness and discover our core principles by collecting data of what happens in our classroom, by analysing and evaluating this data. With this, we can make improvements and tweaks in our teaching and lesson plan. Teaching and learning reflection is therefore one of the means in professional progress which begins in our classroom.
Many of our colleagues ponder about their teaching and we would chat about it too. We think or tell each other that "My or our lesson went well (I co-teach with another lecturer for one module)" and other common issues we chatted about:
1. "My students didn 't seem to understand my lesson"
2. "I couldn’t control the students as they were talking amongst themselves.”
3. “The class was silent when …show more content…

Making a list of discussions about teaching beliefs, we can debate on ones we agree or disagree with, and which ones are reflected in our own teaching giving evidence from our self-observation and observation of each other’s lesson.
3. We may have noticed patterns occurring in your teaching through our own observation. We may also have noticed things that we were previously unaware of. We may have been surprised by some of your students ' feedback. We may already have ideas for changes to implement.
Attending the Teaching and Learning course with CPLD, made me realised there are many teaching ideas, resources and academic articles out there. Thereafter I also found there are also magazines and online forums for teachers and lecturers where we can find articles on a wide range of topics or pose questions to online forums or magazines to get ideas from other lecturers or professors.
Teaching and learning reflection is a continuous process as once we start to introduce changes, then the evaluative and reflective phase begins over again.
As a result of our reflection we may decide to do something in a different way, or we may place ourselves in the students’ shoes then ask ourselves how we want to be taught. And that is what teaching and learning development is all

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