Source: Snowman, Jack, Rick McCown, and Robert Biehler. Psychology Applied to Teaching. 12th. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.
Chapter 16: Becoming a Better Teacher by Becoming a Reflective Teacher Improving Your Teaching and Reflection Skills -student evaluations & suggestions -peer- & self-assessment techniques: observation schedules, video/audiotaped lessons, reflective lesson plans, guided reflection protocol, create a portfolio -developing a reflective journal. -the purpose of reflective journals: to serve as a repository of instructional ideas and techniques that you've either created from your own experiences or gleaned from other sources. Ways to Become a Reflective Teacher -use the Suggestions for Teaching from the book -use the journal entries from each chapter to help guide observation notes of yourself and of your students -analyze the observation notes for strengths and weaknesses. -after each teaching episode, think about &/or write down an assessment of how you did.
