I know i will be a reflective teacher, i know this due to my sensitive (insecure) my nature. I care and worry too much about things (often) unrelated to me.
i strongly believe that being a reflective teacher is a necessary component of our job that is done (with or without active awareness) intuitively, else we could not be a teacher……an effective one.
My TPI score was as i expected. my primary concern is to teach and for the most part that is the transmission of knowledge and the filling of the empty vessel that lie before me. However i understand completely that transmission as a teaching style (sucks) is ineffective, which brings me to inner beliefs of being develop mental and apprenticeship. While my scores are in effect equivalent, i find myself tending to the developmental approach. I truly believe in scaffolding and building my students up and taking them where they need to go. the notion of student development i know is a core characteristic of my being and teaching approach; inextricably who i am.
the idea of apprenticing a student was a little more surprising, most likely due to diverging definitions. The reason why i believe this is that i only (more forcibly) apprentice those who are struggling and those who approach me. In my inner soul i have a habit of ignoring the middle of the class. If there are there and happy, so am i. Next to the stragglers i will try to apprentice a select few from the top of the class, but as they are on top, doing well, and i have little understanding of their home and personal life, i do not tend to push them as perhaps it is taking all they have to be where they are and my extra input might not be…….to welcoming, despite the word and emotions portrayed (face).
i absolutely understand why social reform goes out the window. if all else fails this is what i do not do. The reason for this is because it is not a testable PLO. Since the students are not required (i know), this is something that i will teach or connect with once the core of the lessons are understood and i know that my students will do well on the tests (i know….bad, bad teacher).
i am so aware of this that i generally place (replace and update) these social aspects on the wall around my classroom and allow students to take in what they want. Only on occasion will i spend time on any one in particular.
