The importance of Reflection

I have been staring at the blinking line for a couple of minutes now...Why am I finding it so hard to write something, to reflect on something? Now that I am actually thinking, I found the answer...I have never actually stopped to write down my reflections.

Last year, during my observations, the lecturers used to tell us to reflect on what we observe. But I used to ask myself: "Reflecting? Why reflecting?" But now, that I am writing for the first time on a blog, spending some time to think and reflect before writing, reflecting is important, and as a student teacher I should reflect more after each observation and in the near future, reflect after each lesson that I will be doing, in order to improve and change my teaching.

I was never in the habit of keeping a journal but I will take the advantage of this blog to start writing down and reflecting about my teaching observations and practices.

Daniela

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