Teacher Reflective Report

Teaching is a very personal activity, and it is not surprising that any individual teacher brings to his lessons very different feelings, beliefs and assumptions about what makes this discipline effective. Teaching is part of a life-long and non-stop learning process. Reflecting upon the way I conduct my classes provides me with many dimensions of learning and with many dimensions of professional growth too. It helps me to improve what I do inside the classroom on a daily basis with my students and it helps me to overcome my weaknesses in my field of work as well. First, in order to improve the way I, as an educator, teach my students, reflection on my teaching procedures on a regular basis is a must and second, after reflecting on the way

All in all, a teacher can make his instruction more effective by continuously reflecting on his teaching procedures and by making conscious decisions based on what he has observed and consequently analysed. There are many ways to become a reflective practitioner and each teacher must find his own path. Any path a teacher chooses must involve a willingness to be an active participant in a perpetual growth progression, requiring ongoing critical reflection on his classroom practices. This interesting and long journey involves the teacher in a process of analyse of his personal beliefs and values and to mould them into his professional identity, resulting in developing a thoughtful code of conduct in his daily performance as an educator. Conversely, critical reflection is not only a way of approaching education, it is at the same time, a way of life. The more a teacher explores, the more he discovers. The more he questions the existing reality of his classroom, the more he accesses to new realms of possibility. The path to developing as a critically reflective teacher just cannot be arranged with an intervention formula. The route the teacher will go through cannot be planned before hand. It must be actively lived and experienced, with all the ups and downs he comes across. Undoubtedly, teaching in today 's classrooms is a challenge of great magnitude. Meeting the challenge requires me to be a teacher who resists to establish a classroom culture of control and become a vigorous reflective practitioner, continuously engaged in critical reflection and as a result, remaining as a key element in the dynamic environment of my