REFLECTIVE TEACHING 2018-2

DIRECTIONS: In your blog write your autobiography by enhacing your schooling experiences and the development of your bilingual literacy skills SAMPLE AUTOBIOGRAPHY: MY TEACHING IDENTITY: A LIFELONG LEARNING EXPERIENCE Edgar Alirio Insuasty My initial views of teaching were shaped by the kind of schooling I had as a child and a teenager. Teaching was one of my favorite childhood  games . As soon as the daily school timetable was over, I used to get together with some of my neighbors and I played the role of the “teacher”. What I did was to “teach” my friends the topics we had previously studied at school by trying to replicate as much as possible our teacher’s strict ways. Our teacher was an all-knower who taught us all the subjects. He was a respectable person in the community, as important as the judge, the mayor or the priest. Definitely, I wanted to be become a teacher when I would grow up!  When I entered my secondary studies, I underwent some educationa...

DIRECTIONS: Once you have drawn your visual teaching metaphor, scan the drawing, post it in your blog and write an interpretation about it.

DIRECTIONS:  Based on the questions posed by Richars & Lockhart (2007) in " Exploring teachers´ beliefs ", in your own blog write down you own: Beliefs about English Beliefs about learning Beliefs about teaching Beliefs about teaching as a profession Beliefs about the program and the curriculum

DIRECTIONS: Watch the video " Shaping the way we teach English -Reflective Teaching  ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKVTh6HG-T4 ) ," and give an account of the characteristics of the participating teachers´ reflective practices. 

DIRECTIONS: Read the papers " Teacher Development through Reflective Teaching " by Leo Bartlett and " Reflective Teaching in ELT " by John Murphy, and make a proposal to explore the potential usefulness of Reflective Teaching as a strategy to solve one of your particular teaching problems.

DIRECTIONS: Analyze the following two papers and the movie about Reflective Teaching and answer the subsequent questions in your blog: Towards Reflective Teaching   by Jack C. Richards:  https://www.tttjournal.co.uk/uploads/File/back_articles/Towards_Reflective_Teaching.pdf Reflective Teaching by Thomas Farrell:   https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/03-41-4-b_0.pdf Becoming a reflective practitioner - The cycle of reflection :   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB0dorWd-e0 What is reflective teaching? How important is reflective teaching? What is the cycle of reflection like? What is reflection? How many types of reflection are there? What can be done to put reflective teaching into practice?