4A.1: Reflective Practice
One of the things about the Clark MAT program I have most appreciated, is the focus on reflection and learning from these reflections. Thinking about each lesson, each unit, and each week, is an incredibly powerful way of developing meta-cognitive strategies that improve your practice. I have never really kept a journal, but after this program I have began keeping one as I can see the value in documenting your thought process, and subsequently learning from this.
Evidence:
This is my final reflection of the teaching year. It really brought everything together and made me think not only on what was accomplished, but why I began teaching in the first place, and even areas I still want to improve in. Reflection is such a key part of improving your practice in my opinion.