Task 5. Reflecting on Teaching & Learning
Adapted from: PACT Handbook - Science Teaching Event Candidate Handbook 2008-2009; Performance Assessment for California TeachersPurpose
The Reflecting on Teaching & Learning Task describes what you learned from teaching the learning segment. It provides evidence of your ability to analyze your teaching and your students’ learning to improve your teaching practice.
Overview of Task
Record your reflections after teaching each lesson, discussing how the lesson went for the class as a whole as well as for specific students. (See instructions in the daily reflection box in Task 2. Planning Instruction and Assessment.)
Review your daily reflections and your analyses of the effectiveness of instructional and assessment strategies in previous tasks. Use these specific analyses and reflections to identify more general patterns within your planning, instruction, and assessment practices across the learning segment.
Reflect on your experience teaching the learning segment in light of 1) your observations of the effectiveness of your teaching practice in helping your students learn; and 2) the theoretical perspectives and research principles that you learned during teacher preparation.
What Do I Need to Do?
Submit the daily reflections that were completed as part of Task 2. Planning Instruction & Assessment.
- Respond to each of the prompts in the Reflection Commentary.