Use the CREATE self - evaluation form at the end of this chapter and
the Teacher Reflection forms in the appendix to organize your thoughts.
Our data set includes many elements such as field notes, e-mails, sidebar conversations, meeting notes,
teacher reflection forms, evaluation and teacher lesson plans.
Sample: Individual
Teacher Reflection Form — Another step that I take each time we complete a common formative assessment is to complete this reflection form.
Not exact matches
My
reflections arose, as I have indicated, in part from formative books and
teachers, but they also grew out of grappling with Scripture (one of the lightning bolts here was the simple but profound insight of realizing once again the ineradicable connection of
form and content — for instance, what is said in a parable can not be said in any other way), and with the complex business, endemic to academic theologians, of, as Kierkegaard would put it, becoming a Christian (not in general or for someone else but in particular and for me).
An online
form could clarify and streamline classroom walkthroughs by focusing on a summary, specific and targeted feedback,
teacher reflection / action plans, and adding multimedia.
Student planning
forms such as calendars, task lists, and the like can help students create deadlines and benchmarks for peer feedback,
teacher feedback, and
reflections.
The conservative call for practicality must be understood as an attempt to sabotage the
forms of
teacher and student self -
reflection required for a quality education, all the while providing an excuse for a prolonged moral coma and flight from responsibility.
With variations on the implementation,
teacher educators are incorporating different
forms of technology into reflective practice, with implications for both preservice
teachers»
reflection and their understanding of technology (Germann, Young - Soo, & Patton, 2001; Koszalka, Grabowski, & McCarthy, 2003; Romano & Schwartz, 2005).
This post shares the top five ways a mentor or instructional coach can help support new (and veteran)
teachers and provide both a weekly
reflection chart, as well as a «Glow and Grow» feedback
form.
Familiarity with technology may support preservice
teachers» engagement with reflective practice, encouraging preservice
teachers to focus on the
reflection created rather than the
form of technology used.
Using the weekly Mentor and
Teacher Reflection and monthly Glow and Grow Mentor Observation
Form are a great way to record, resolve, and revisit difficult situations.
The implications of the preservice English
teachers» views on technology use for
reflection are then explored, with attention to the choice of «easy»
forms of technology and the elements of journal length, choice of expression, and audience awareness in reflective practice.
Furthermore,
teacher educators should explore the benefits and drawbacks of different technology media as related to reflective practice, just as they should «experiment with the
form, process and method of
reflection» itself (Shoffner, 2008, p. 132).
Teacher educators seek to integrate various forms of reflective practice throughout teacher preparation, acknowledging that reflection supports teachers» ability to analyze issues of teaching and learning from differing perspectives, as well as their efforts to make changes to practice and belief (Calderhead, 1992; Zeichner & Liston,
Teacher educators seek to integrate various
forms of reflective practice throughout
teacher preparation, acknowledging that reflection supports teachers» ability to analyze issues of teaching and learning from differing perspectives, as well as their efforts to make changes to practice and belief (Calderhead, 1992; Zeichner & Liston,
teacher preparation, acknowledging that
reflection supports
teachers» ability to analyze issues of teaching and learning from differing perspectives, as well as their efforts to make changes to practice and belief (Calderhead, 1992; Zeichner & Liston, 1996).
Using
reflection to consider specific issues critically — such as the rapid rate of technological change, the design of technology for educational purposes or the use of specific
forms of technology to support the situated nature of learning (Mishra & Koehler, 2006)-- provides preservice
teachers with the opportunity to develop their technological pedagogical content knowledge while engaging in meaningful reflective practice.
INCLUDES 1 Hands - On Standards Math
Teacher Resource Guide Grade 8 with 27 lessons TOPICS The Number System Approximating square roots Irrational square roots Expressions and Equations Squares and square roots Cube roots Slope as a rate of change Problem solving with rates of change One, No, or infinitely many solutions Solving multi-step equations Solving equations with variables on both sides Solving systems of equations Functions Graphing linear equations Linear functions Lines in slope - intercept
form Symbolic algebra Constructing functions Geometry Congruent figures and transformations
Reflections, translations, rotations, and dilations Triangle sum theorem Parallel lines transected by a transversal Pythagorean theorem Statistics and Probability Scatter plot diagrams Line of best fit Making a conjecture using a scatter plot
Rich
forms of inquiry unfold when
teachers engage in inquiry cycles across time, interweaving learning and
reflection on practice.
Teachers follow a lesson
reflection form that is based on student motivation, cooperative grouping, language skills, higher order thinking and comprehensible input.
The interaction of unfamiliar
forms of technology and reflective practice, however, is an area that calls for additional study in order to explore the implications for preservice
teacher reflection.
Modifying the informal
reflection assignment to require the use of these less familiar
forms of technology would extend the preservice English
teachers» interactions with technology, in general, and provide specific experiences with a different medium that might encourage future experimentation in the classroom while supporting the development of preservice
teachers» TPACK during university preparation.
As engagement with informal
reflection was the primary purpose of the assignment, the preservice
teachers are not at fault in choosing an «easy»
form of technology.
Different
forms of technology that support individual ways of engaging in
reflection may encourage preservice English
teachers to expand their understanding of reflective practice beyond the rigidity often associated with university
reflection.
Although a direct email is a relatively simple and frequently used technology medium, few preservice English
teachers chose to use this particular
form for their
reflection journals.
The implications of the preservice English
teachers» views on technology use for
reflection were then explored, with attention to the choice of «easy»
forms of technology and the elements of journal length, choice of expression, and audience awareness in reflective practice.
Instead, the primary goal of such professional learning and
reflection could be to develop and act upon TPCK in and to whichever
forms and extents...
teacher practitioners choose.
The
teacher leaders developed sustainable methods of communicating with their teams three times over the course of a month: 1) midway through the month, the
teacher leaders hand back to their site colleagues copies of the
reflections they wrote at the last meeting and the plans they chose to implement during the month; 2) Co-principal Maria Carriedo sends an email to all the
teachers a week before each meeting to remind them to bring their observations of their focal students; 3)
teachers make notes to themselves, in a simple chart
form, about the interventions and behaviors they plan to track and keep these on their classroom walls as an easy way to document their focal students» progress.
That is why the sixth and final section of Pencils Down, «Beyond High - Stakes, Standardized Testing,» focuses on authentic
forms of assessment, including portfolios and ongoing
teacher and student self -
reflection based on classroom evidence.