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Chapter 1

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Short Essay / Discussion Questions

  1. Specify and briefly explain the differences between reflective teaching and more technical teaching.
  2. Thinking of your own student and/or teaching experiences, specify and briefly explain the major areas where reflective teaching may help improve your personal teaching practice.
  3. To see yourself as a reflective teacher is to thoughtfully deliberate on top-down educational reform. Identify and then briefly explain some ways you could avoid being the “victim” of top-down directives at either your future or current school site and still maintain a professional working environment. How do you balance what you believe and what your administrator may tell you to do when the two conflict?
  4. Chapter 1 mentions the invisibility of teacher-generated knowledge in educational research.  Think about your teacher preparation or your current professional development program—were you exposed to teacher-generated knowledge?  Describe some strengths and weaknesses of both teacher-based research and externally based research?
  5. Identify and briefly explain the five key features or dimensions of reflective teaching, as conceptualized by Zeichner and Liston.  Did you encounter or investigate any of these features in teacher preparation or in your current professional-development program?  How could you use each of these dimensions to become a more well-rounded educator?

Video Case Studies

Each video contains a snapshot of the video, a link to the video, and a few questions after the video that pertain to the information in the video and chapter.

Video

General Overview of Reflective Teaching (humor involved). 

http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=40561&title=Cycle_of_Reflection

Questions

What two types of reflective teaching does the video display? When would you use each type of reflective teaching?  Which of reflective teaching do you feel is most important? Support your response with reasons and examples.

Video

Experienced teacher interview: Preschool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EajkgQZbWUQ

Published on May 4, 2012

This video highlights particular aspects of a teacher working with a Head Start class for three-year-olds. The teacher shares information about how she manages the students’ behaviors and works with the families, and describes the relationships that she builds with them. She uses specific student examples as references to discuss how and why she implements certain strategies to impact students’ experiences

Question

What did you “hear” in this interview that demonstrates reflection?  Identify the action and if it was reflection in-action or reflection on-action.

Video

Older students (Case Study)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E68dTBT8V8

Questions

Identify the issue(s).

What problem do you see the teacher having with the students?  What issue(s) do you have with the instructor in this video, if any? Is this teacher engaging in reflection in-action?  What do you think this teacher should do? How would you address these issues? 

Video

Teaching “movie” clip (teacher in-action) spur of the moment teaching decisions

Mr. Holland's Opus (clip)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN7f2yDYn78

Question

Identify the moments when Mr. Opus used reflection in-action.