Reflective Practice
Reflective practice is a very large subject that has been covered by a number of academic scholars. There are a great many methods and techniques you can use, but to save you running through the books yourself, here are a few simple ways that you may apply reflective practice to your online teaching and tutoring.
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Teaching teachers how to be leaders should take a higher priority within modern education. Below there are five simple ways that you may practice more reflectively. If you are interested in further details, you may read more in The Leadership Quarterly 21 (4): 633–644.
1 - Seek feedback
Get it from students, parents and online observers. You have to take their feedback with a grain of salt, as …show more content…
Were you the one that genuinely helped the students learn the material, or have they found a very good online resource? Is it the homework you set that has helped, or was it your ability to explain concepts clearly? Identify what you are doing well, especially when it comes to your value as a leader. If your students do not follow you as they would a leader, then you are relying on luck and the goodwill of your students.
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4 - Objectivity is more about blaming yourself
This is one of the few areas where leaders in business differ from tutors and teachers. If a leader fails, then it is his or her job to find the reason, assign blame, and then fix that problem so that it doesn’t happen again. If the same thing happens again because the problem isn’t fixed…then it is the leader’s fault.
With online teachers and tutors, the only person to blame is the teacher/tutor. That is what being objective means in the teaching industry. An objective reflective practitioner blames only himself or herself. If there is a problem, you need to consider ways to avoid it in the future by changing what “you” do, say, and how “you” act.
5 - Empathy has to feature in your reflective …show more content…
For example, a teacher may say, “Oh, this is an easy bit” and explain a concept. In the teacher’s mind, he or she has planted a seed of positivity in the minds of the students so that they feel comfortable with the subject matter. The students that understood the content “will” feel more comfortable with the subject matter, but the students that “don’t” understand will be embarrassed to ask for help because they are stuck on something that they think everybody else finds
Investments In Leadership Training
Teaching teachers how to be leaders should take a higher priority within modern education. Below there are five simple ways that you may practice more reflectively. If you are interested in further details, you may read more in The Leadership Quarterly 21 (4): 633–644.
1 - Seek feedback
Get it from students, parents and online observers. You have to take their feedback with a grain of salt, as …show more content…
Were you the one that genuinely helped the students learn the material, or have they found a very good online resource? Is it the homework you set that has helped, or was it your ability to explain concepts clearly? Identify what you are doing well, especially when it comes to your value as a leader. If your students do not follow you as they would a leader, then you are relying on luck and the goodwill of your students.
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4 - Objectivity is more about blaming yourself
This is one of the few areas where leaders in business differ from tutors and teachers. If a leader fails, then it is his or her job to find the reason, assign blame, and then fix that problem so that it doesn’t happen again. If the same thing happens again because the problem isn’t fixed…then it is the leader’s fault.
With online teachers and tutors, the only person to blame is the teacher/tutor. That is what being objective means in the teaching industry. An objective reflective practitioner blames only himself or herself. If there is a problem, you need to consider ways to avoid it in the future by changing what “you” do, say, and how “you” act.
5 - Empathy has to feature in your reflective …show more content…
For example, a teacher may say, “Oh, this is an easy bit” and explain a concept. In the teacher’s mind, he or she has planted a seed of positivity in the minds of the students so that they feel comfortable with the subject matter. The students that understood the content “will” feel more comfortable with the subject matter, but the students that “don’t” understand will be embarrassed to ask for help because they are stuck on something that they think everybody else finds