Importance Of Reflective Practice In Education

With the increasing diversity in nowadays classroom, teachers are facing challenges when communicating with children with different cultural backgrounds, religious beliefs, learning preferences and developmental levels. Becoming a reflective practitioner is essential for a teacher to grow, expand and open up a wide range of possible choices and response to meet the needs of all students in a diverse classroom. A reflective practitioner refers to a teacher who actively engages in reflection practices with respect to daily teaching, pedagogy and personal beliefs (Larrivee, 2015). Through critical reflections on their behaviors and professional practices, teachers build confidence in dealing with inevitable dilemmas and tradeoffs involved in daily teaching. They free teaching from routines and are able to deliver more deliberative and intentional …show more content…
My reflection practice in placement helped me outline my personal teaching and learning philosophies, which will be the guidelines for my future teaching. As a pre-service teacher, I can use reflection as a way to examine if my assumptions about those philosophies, pedagogies and guiding principles about children’s learning are compelling. In my future teaching, reflection will be integrated in part of my daily practice. Regularly engaging in reflective practice inspires me to think creatively, imaginatively and self-critically about my teaching practice. It also creates the lens through which I recognize the repetitive circles and reflective loops that limit my thinking and my potential for tolerance and