It’s time for some R&R. For us, that means to review and reflection.
This is the last thing. You have to think about what you’ve done in this programme and reflect on different parts of it. You don’t need to be doing advanced academic qualifications or read a lot of research to be a reflective teacher.
Reflective teaching is simply the process where you think about your teaching practice and analyse how you did. The idea is to look at where you can improve or change what you’re doing to get better learning outcomes.
If you’re like most of the people who do work in foundation education, you are probably reflecting on what you do all the time. In this next part, we want to make this process visible. Once it’s visible you can use it as evidence to finish off the NZCALNE (Voc).
Here’s what we’re going to ask you to do:
Review your teaching
This includes your reflections and thoughts on:
- What went well.
- What you’d you do differently.
- How you managed the delivery
- Any collaboration with learners and supervisor
- Any comments on the learners’ evaluation
- Anything unexpected.
Reflect on what you need to do moving forward
This includes your reflections and thoughts on:
- Any key changes and improvements you might make.
- What kind of goals you might set for these learners from here.
- What the implications are now for designing your teaching and learning.
All we need to do this then is a set of questions for you to think about and answer. These questions are in the final section of your template for Assessment 7. We’ve also given you sentence starters as well to get you going. You can ignore these if you want.
If you know what you’re doing, you can just write up your reflections in the assessment template now. If you need some time to think about them, the questions are listed next.
