The importance of promoting self-reflection in the pedagogical practice of teachers

Abstract

Teaching is not an easy task because teachers have many and different roles in the class. Part of these roles is to self-reflect about their teaching practice to improve as a teacher and with this to help students to succeed. Some aspects may improve the process of self-reflection. This is crucial for personal growth since teachers can recognize their strengths and weaknesses by the observations and analysis of themselves. The different models of self-reflection will allow the teachers to be guided during the process of reflection. Moreover, these processes have almost the same stages: awareness of the need for self-reflection, the feelings, evaluation of the experiences, analysis of situations, conclusions, and action plans. The diverse strategies that may help to self-reflect on your own teaching practice are going to be explained in order to demonstrate that there are different ways to self-reflect and teachers need to select the one better fits for them. Therefore, self-reflection makes people more conscious about what needs to be changed or modified when teaching.