Standard 8: Reflection and Continuous Growth
- The teacher is a reflective practitioner who uses evidence to continually evaluate and adapt practice to meet the needs of each learner.
- A teacher can't be better without reflection and keep learning for growth. Teachers should engage themselves in professional development, reflect on the outcome of teaching strategies, and adjust teaching method based on feedback from students, colleague, parents, and community to become a effective teacher of their students.
Goal:
- Keep track/record students' learning progress and use these information to adjust my teaching pace and modify lesson plan.
Reflection:
- I update students’ homework assignments, worksheets’ grades, and test score daily. So, parents can login student information system to check their student’s progress in class and see if their student is missing anything. I repeat the same quiz on every Friday. Every week I add a new question into weekly quiz. According to American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages' (ACTFL) guideline the "Novice-level speakers can communicate short messages on highly predictable, everyday topics that affect them directly..... that have been encountered, memorized, and recalled* ". I modify my lesson plan after getting students' formal and informal assessment result. To be a professional immersion language educator I reflect my lesson and assess students base on Utah core standard and ACTFL's guideline. I found that reflecting on own teaching is a good way to make myself to aware of a way to meet the need of each student. An effective teacher should do self-assessment regularly.
Evidence:
- Recording students in the classroom:
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Reflection:
- I always think that when is time to change or adjust my teaching practices. I found that an effective way to find out is to think and watch record videos about my own teaching regularly, thoroughly, and systematically. That is, to become a reflective educator, I regularly look at the record I have recorded from the classes to see if everything goes well. If not, what did not go well? After finding out something not goes smoothly or effectively, I will discuss with the English partner teacher or the second grade Chinese teacher to see what might need to change for the next time to make it better. I also attend dual language immersion book study and mentor teacher meeting once per month. I took notes during each meeting and apply useful information to my lessons. During the book study and mentor meeting, I reflect my own teaching to see which strategy mentioned in the book or from the mentors I have applied and how it went. I would always brought up my experience, either effective or not, to discuss with other DLI teachers and mentors. I also fount that other people's observation, including principal, mentors, DLI program coordinator, and others, are extremely useful. Although I look over my teaching video recording, there are blind spots that I myself cannot see. Thus, it is useful and helpful for me to read observation notes from others so that I can see my strength and weakness that I am unable to see. Thus, I will be able to maintain the strength and improve my weakness in teaching.
- I also like to watch other teacher's videos and their website's materials regularly. It would also be even better to observe other teachers' teaching in their classroom. Sometime I "borrow" other teacher's worksheet for my students and I play other school's students' videos for my students to see their performance. My students always said "他们很棒,我可以说...(They're great. I can say ...)" I'm/we are better than them.