Reflection: Effective Communication In The Classroom

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American educational philosopher John Dewey once said, “We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on our experience” (Stefano, Gino, Pisano, & Staats, 2014, p. 29). This belief rings true for students and teachers equally. As educators, we lead our students through learning experiences and periodically ask them to reflect on what they have learned, what wonderings they still have, what went well and what could be done differently next time to advance their understanding. It is crucial for teachers to take the time to also stop and reflect on their own practice. It is in these moments of reflection that teachers are able to identify opportunities for improvement in our practice. The clinical supervision process is one way that teachers can reflect in effort to improve their classroom instruction (Gall & Acheson, 2011). In effort to practice being a supervisor in the clinical supervision process, I asked second-year teacher, Mrs. Tan, if she would be interested in going through the process of a planning conference, classroom observation, and …show more content…

By observing Mrs. Tan’s classroom, I was able to see how another teacher handles some of the same difficulties that I face as a teacher. In addition, I gained new ideas about how to introduce and co-construct essential agreements in my own classroom. From a future administrator’s point of view, I had the opportunity to give the process a try in a safe learning environment. The more times I complete the process, the better I will get at following the entire process and asking the right questions in order to prompt the teacher to be reflective of her own practice. When I do become an administrator, I will have appropriate experience and be ready to lead my school in making the clinical supervision process a regular practice for the benefit of teacher’s classroom instruction and the learning of

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