KNR 364: Senior Seminar in Physical Education Teacher Education
Reflection. The physical education teacher understands the importance of being a reflective practitioner and its contribution to overall professional development and actively seeks opportunities to sustain professional growth.
The ongoing process a teacher or teachers engage in to make sense of the ever-changing environment of teaching with the ultimate goal of finding better ways to meet students’ needs To be effective, reflection must lead to action
PlanActObserve Make Judgments
Help you to bridge the gap between being a student of teaching and being a teacher of students Help you to manage the complex nature of teaching in schools Help you to learn from your experiences
Experience alone does not guarantee teacher change. For change to occur, a person must be deliberate about reflecting upon experiences.
Teaching Evaluations Journaling Self-evaluations Video Analysis Student Feedback Observing Others
Technical SensitizingSituational
Teaching skills and methods Reflecting on past experiences and applying new technical knowledge to better understand the situation
Contextual level of reflection Occurs as a reaction to a problem that comes up in your class that is unexpected
Dialectical Level Refers to social constructions (race, SES, gender, etc.)
Describing: What happened? Justifying: What did you do and why? Critiquing: How did it go?
Think back to a situation where you have used reflection Identify the situation and the problem How did you reflect? What actions did you take to change the situation? How did your actions work? How did you know?
Tsangaridou & O’Sullivan, 1997 What did they do? What did they learn? So what?
Micro reflection: day to day practices Pedagogical issues Content Social issues Ethical and moral issues Macro reflection: informs practice over time Subject matter issues Societal concerns Contextual issues
Teaching context and experiences were the biggest catalysts for reflection Teachers’ values about education served as the foundation for reflection
Micro reflection helped teachers to fine tune their teaching Reflection is an essential component of professional development Experience can lead to professional development only if it is accompanied by reflection