Teaching Practice Reflections
You are welcome to take your reflections in any direction that you believe to be appropriate and useful to your own development as a teacher. The questions that follow should be used simply as a prompt to stimulate your reflections on your professional development and practice teaching experiences.
Reflection on teaching: Learning to reflect on the complexities of teaching practice—planning, implementing and self-evaluating—are integral to the professional development of teaching. A written plan and subsequent self-evaluation will be required for a minimum of 3 class periods.
Some questions you might consider:
- What learning goals did I have (for myself and the students) during my practice teaching?
- What aspects of my teaching plan succeeded and why?
- What aspects of my teaching plan would I change in future?
- How did students respond to my various teaching strategies/approaches?
- Given the students’ response to my teaching strategies/approaches, what would I change in the future and what aspects of my plan/approaches would I retain?
- What did I do to ensure that I felt confident and comfortable in the class?
- What could you do next time to ensure that I felt confident and comfortable?
- What were my responses to the peer/faculty feedback I received?
- What did I learn about myself as a teacher through this teaching practice experience?