I've just completed my 9th year teaching and the second year of my three year masters.
I feel in control of my classroom, I have enough resources that if I've forgotten to plan a lesson I can teach of the top of my head and it's a decent lesson. I could quite happily sit back and relax and still do a good enough job.
But I'm not sure that's enough, I ask my students to reflect on their feedback and to use this to improve. We spend a lot of time setting them goals and then looking at whether they have met them, and I think it's time for me to do the same.
Too often I find that I get to the end of the school year and have to fill in my professional reflection without having made much of a note of what I've done over the year. Once I have my new targets I'm ready to start and then set myself so many goals it only lasts a few weeks into the new school year.
I want next year to be different, I am going to concentrate on a single aspect of my teaching each month. Here's my first terms goals:
September - Getting to know my students
October - Improving participation
November - Study skills
December - Giving better feedback
I am going to try different techniques and see what works, and hopefully improve my teaching at the same time.
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