At the End...

Reflection has been the over-arching theme of my semester in our Learning Disability block of classes. Our professors wanted to create an experience this semester to produce reflective teachers. Each time we are in the classroom, we reflect. Before we teach we write a pre-reflection. We think about what were are going to teach and how we feel about it, and after words we fill out a post-reflection, and think about how things went that day. At the completion of a project, reflection is vital.

Reflection allows us to think about what we did and what we can do better in the future. The key is to make reflection meaningful. I have done reflections in that past that didn't mean anything to me. I didn't put any real thought into it. The same goes for our students. We need to allow freedom with reflective thought, I feel that I can provide a guide for my students, but it will only be meaningful if my students can provide their own thoughts and feelings.

Today Marjorie and I finished our website. Upon reflection, we talked about how creating the website was actually fun. I could see this being a fantastic opportunity for my students in the future, but I will need to make some alterations to best suit the needs of my students. This is the purpose of reflecting, I thought of a way to make the activity better in the future.