Coaches can help teachers to reflect on their practices in a variety of ways. Let’s listen as Ms. Sheri Harris discusses how to encourage teachers to take on new perspectives and consider alternate points of view. The goal of reflection is to help the teacher think about their own practices and identify areas of improvement – in their instruction, interactions, or ways of thinking.
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Awareness and objectivity is a crucial part of reflective thinking, as it requires a teacher to consider events or situations in ways that are uninfluenced by personal feelings or opinions. In this video, Ms. Sheri Harris describes how awareness and objectivity support the teacher in describing a situation or event more accurately so they can better understand their strengths and areas needed for improvement.
In this video, Ms. Sheri Harris explains that perspective taking is when a coach supports a teacher in viewing a situation or event from another point of view. It allows the practitioner to better explore the situation or event that occurred in the past — or it can even support in making an upcoming decision. Teachers are usually able to engage in deeper conversations when they can take on the viewpoint of another person’s thoughts, feelings and attitudes. It can also shape how practitioners act or react in future situations.
This subcategory area is about how coaches can help teachers to connect their instruction to meet specific learning objectives for a lesson, broader learning standards and key outcomes, or child assessment/progress monitoring data. Coaches can use these competencies to build reflective thinking skills to see whether their instruction or interactions provided the right support to children.