My Reflection

In my classroom, I’m always striving to be the best teacher I can be. This often means making mistakes, reflecting on them, and then finding ways to improve. I’m always looking for beneficial changes I can make and new resources that I can use in my classroom to elevate my lessons. Throughout this course, and really throughout my entire master’s program, I have focused on reflection. Part of learning as an educator is accepting feedback and making adjustments that will benefit you and your students. As this class comes to a close, I took some time to revisit a past assignment and reflect on it.

For this assignment, I wrote an essay about how I had become an expert at marching while I was a member of Michigan State’s Spartan Marching Band. My first essay was solid, however, there’s always room for growth. I looked at it critically and considered the feedback I had received and made some changes. Here is my new essay based on the reflection that I have done. Through this class, I have realized how crucial reflection and feedback is to the learning process. Having others review my work allows me to view my work from a different perspective and help make it better. Moving forward, I will continue to be reflective and use feedback to improve my teaching, as well as encourage my own students to develop these same skills.