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Reflective Criticism In The Classroom

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In order for people to grow, they must be open to constructive criticism. Likewise, in order for teachers to grow into great educators they must also be open to constructive criticism. One of the best ways to be open to constructive criticism is to take criticism from ourselves. That is because some people critique themselves harder than anyone else would. Throughout this narrative, I will reflect and critique a video of myself teaching inequalities to an Algebraic Connections class. While reflecting on the video of myself teaching, I realized that there were many things I did that I was unaware of. One thing I noticed was that I turned my back to students a lot. By a lot, I mean way more than I should. I gave my students way too many opportunities to break their focus from the lesson. I believe one reason I have not caught onto this before is because these students are really good students. However, I will not always have really good students. Even if I am giving a certain student the attention they need, I need to pay more attention to how much time I spend with my back to the rest of the students. Another thing I learned from the video of my lesson is that …show more content…

One of those types of criticism is constructive criticism or something that person should work on. The other type of criticism is something that they did well on. While reflecting on the video, I was able to pick out many things I did wrong. Thankfully, this reflection also allowed for me to recognize some things that I thought I did well on. One of the things I feel I did well on was the amount of time that I walked around the classroom. I did not stand at the front of the classroom the entire time. I traveled around the classroom so no student felt like I was not giving them enough attention. With traveling around the classroom, I felt like each student got a lot of one on one time to ask me

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