Reading Reflection 10

The importance of setting aside time for reflection:

Reflection is a crucial part of what teachers do. If you’re not looking at what you’re doing in the classroom, how do you know it is working? How do you know it doesn’t need to be tweaked? As teachers we also want to make sure we help our students to reflect on the things we do so I think it is important to practice reflection in order to properly implement it into the classroom.

The reason students need to reflect and elaborate:

Reflection is an important part of the learning process. It is important to not only give students time to reflect but also guidance on how to reflect. It is important for teachers to implement the reflection piece consistently because it will guide their student’s learning of new information so that the purpose and objectives of each lesson make an impression on students.

How schools build tradition and identity.

Schools build tradition and identity by bridging the community of learners and the community that surrounds them. In schools these days children are doing majorly impressive things and by bringing the community into the school and by taking those students out into the community, students will be celebrated by the community for their accomplishments and learning.

The importance celebrating a project.

By celebrating a project, you are celebrating the hard work of your students. To get to the end of a project, students have put in a lot of work and hard thinking and it is important to recognize this as a great accomplishment. Also, students have a chance to look back and connect everything they have done to one culminating finished product.

How concepts in this chapter relate to your topic/project.

At the end of lessons that make up this unit, students are engaged in some sort of reflective wrap up of that new information. It is important implement this kind of reflection throughout our project so that our students have a reason and purpose for their learning.