REFLECTING TEACHING

Reflective teaching means looking at what you do in the classroom, thinking about why you do it, and thinking about if it works - a process of self-observation and self-evaluation. By collecting information about what goes on in our classroom, and by analyzing and evaluating this information, we identify and explore our own practices and underlying beliefs. This may then lead to changes and improvements in our teaching. In my personal experience, I have faced many difficulties such as when students do not want to participate or when there are annoying leaders in the classroom. At the beginning I was worry about it, but after I studied ´´reflective teaching´´, things changed for me. I reflected on what I was doing, the way I was doing it, and so on. After doing this, I could realize that the topics I was presenting to my students, and the materials I was using were not appealing for them. So I modified all these things, and I have had good results. Now my students pay more attention, and like what they are learning. About the videos, I like the comment one teacher said. She said that she would like to have her own English classroom because she could have more advantages in teaching the language. I totaly agree with her.