Personal reflection is exceedingly a useful method for both the students and the teachers. After a lesson, students may give advice to their instructor in regards to what they found helpful in the entire lesson. Its also one of the best ways to advance students learning and adjusting instructional practices. Take a scenario where a teacher may give their class an assignment where each student is required to reflect on their first lesson which would help them improve their next week’s lesson. Clearly this brings out the imagination and reflection on the course visibly . In a major way this reveals the kind of teacher one is, in striving hard to instill such methods of examining the effectiveness of their lessons. Take this for instance, a new teacher in an institution being evaluated on instructional practices and in the process the evaluator points out some things the new teacher needs to improve on before starting off his official duties. This greatly helps the new teacher in revealing and determining their weaknesses and strengths. Though it doesn’t please to be told of one's weaknesses, its always pretty necessary to improve consequently.
Feedback be it from the teacher or student is very fundamental in classrooms today, however this kind of interaction creates a better learning environment for the students. Feedback lays out specific strengths as well as the weaknesses of a certain lesson to the instructor. Feedback always is a fruitful method of identifying intelligible and easier learning methods to students. An instructor would randomly use quizzes to identify strengths and weaknesses of a particular lesson, if certain questions are missed by many students then it would clearly reflect the weak area of the topic taught in that particular lesson.
Works Cited
Mitchell, Karen J. Testing Teacher Candidates: The Role of Licensure Tests in Improving Teacher Quality. Washington, D.C: National Academy Press, 2001. Print.
