1. KNR 364: Senior Seminar in Physical Education Teacher Education

2. I’ve come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous, I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or de-humanized. (Haim Ginott, 1972)

3.  Definition:  Importance: National Standards for Beginning Teachers – Standard 5 and 5.3

4. PlanActObserve Make Judgments

5.  Bridge the gap  Manage complexity of teaching  Help you to learn from your experiences

6. Technical SensitizingSituational

7. Tsangaridou & O’Sullivan, 1997  What did they want to learn?  What did they do?  What did they learn?  So what?

8.  Questions:  1.  2.

9.  Participants  Data Collection  Data Analysis

10.  Micro reflection: day to day practices  Macro reflection: informs practice over time

11.  Teaching context and experiences were the biggest catalysts for reflection  Teachers’ values about education served as the foundation for reflection

12.  Fine tune their teaching  Professional development  Experience + reflection

13. 1. Opportunities for reflection 2. Reflect on actual issues and events 3. Field experiences with teachers who effectively teach and reflect 4. Reflection should occur early and throughout a teacher education program