Getting To Know the Face in the Mirror: Reflection in Practice for Teachers and Teacher Educators.
Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: This chapter reports on a study--referred to as the reflection study--took place within the department of foreign languages at the University of Toledo. The study sought to engage in a collaborative action research project with volunteer graduate teaching assistants. The students were to select an aspect of their teaching, determine goals in relation to the selected aspect of teaching, project plans for change, execute change, record results of executed change, and evaluate the initial goals and results thereof. The goal of the study was to examine and learn about the graduate students' process of learning. The methodology used was informal and included interviews, observations, and conversations with the participants, as well as journal entries and video and audio tape recordings of classroom teaching. The action research enabled the participants to reflect on their professional development, because it encouraged them to hypothesize and theorize from personal experience to personal sets of generalizations about change and the learning process. Appended are: French 517: Teaching Colloquium syllabus; Portfolios assignment description; Final Project Options--Teaching Colloquium; Student Questionnaire; and Sample Questions for Student Interviews. (Contains 34 references.) (Author/VWL) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY Sect Pt_ _C-41.1010k TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) O This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it. O Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. Getting to Know the Face in the Mirror: Reflection in Practice for Teachers and Teacher Educators
Author: Sangeeta Dhawan
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W211819966