Reflectiveness

I believe that teachers and students find it hard to reflect on themselves because they want to believe that they are doing things right. Most believe reflectiveness to be the heart of the teaching process in order to be successful and know what they did wrong so they can look back at what they did wrong and fix it or improve it. It help them to be a better teacher for future student. I believe that the best time to reflect on your teaching would be immediately after you teach. If you wait several days then you forget what happened in that class session and what you did and by the time you reflected on it.. that one little piece of memory or information that you may need in order to change what you could have done better is gone. It can make all the difference. If you reflect on it right away.. you could write your self little notes of what you can do. Some teachers do it as they go along or they wait until they go home at the end of the day then they sit and reflect on their day and what they did wrong and what they could have done better. Either way works ..whatever works best for you..Just do not wait too long.