1. KNR 364: Senior Seminar in Physical Education Teacher Education

2.  Reflection. The physical education teacher understands the importance of being a reflective practitioner and its contribution to overall professional development and actively seeks opportunities to sustain professional growth.

3.  The ongoing process a teacher or teachers engage in to make sense of the ever-changing environment of teaching with the ultimate goal of finding better ways to meet students’ needs  To be effective, reflection must lead to action

4. PlanActObserve Make Judgments

5.  Help you to bridge the gap between being a student of teaching and being a teacher of students  Help you to manage the complex nature of teaching in schools  Help you to learn from your experiences

6.  Experience alone does not guarantee teacher change. For change to occur, a person must be deliberate about reflecting upon experiences.

7.  Teaching Evaluations  Journaling  Self-evaluations  Video Analysis  Student Feedback  Observing Others

8. Technical SensitizingSituational

9.  Teaching skills and methods  Reflecting on past experiences and applying new technical knowledge to better understand the situation

10.  Contextual level of reflection  Occurs as a reaction to a problem that comes up in your class that is unexpected

11.  Dialectical Level  Refers to social constructions (race, SES, gender, etc.)

12.  Describing: What happened?  Justifying: What did you do and why?  Critiquing: How did it go?

13.  Think back to a situation where you have used reflection  Identify the situation and the problem  How did you reflect?  What actions did you take to change the situation?  How did your actions work? How did you know?

14. Tsangaridou & O’Sullivan, 1997 What did they do? What did they learn? So what?

15.  Micro reflection: day to day practices  Pedagogical issues  Content  Social issues  Ethical and moral issues  Macro reflection: informs practice over time  Subject matter issues  Societal concerns  Contextual issues

16.  Teaching context and experiences were the biggest catalysts for reflection  Teachers’ values about education served as the foundation for reflection

17.  Micro reflection helped teachers to fine tune their teaching  Reflection is an essential component of professional development  Experience can lead to professional development only if it is accompanied by reflection