Creative Methodologies: Designing a Framework for Teacher Reflection and Authorship

This research has as its main objective to create, test and improve methodologies and artefacts that help teachers to reflect to transform their practices, making them more creative. Actions are expected that go beyond envisioned planning, but that the teacher is able to concretize, evaluate and continuously improve his/her pedagogical actions. This paper describes the creation of a framework that aims to promote reflection on creative methodologies by teachers, helping them to make explicit the creative movements they already make highlighting their authorial moments, their limits, challenges and difficulties, as well as getting to know new creative possibilities.The data used for the initial construction of this framework was collected in two online courses on Design of Pedagogical Strategies, in which the participating teachers had to describe their teaching practices. From the qualitative analysis of this data, we mapped the challenges and strains in the construction of pedagogical strategies, as well as the fashions and trends that appeared in the discourses. An analysis of formative needs was made and a categorization was created based on a theoretical reflection and critical analysis of the trends presented in the teachers’ data, emphasizing the importance of teachers’ authorial and creative stances in their methodological construction. In this article, we will describe the mapped data, the categorization and the theoretical foundations that supported the construction of this framework. We will also describe the categories and the first validation phase already carried out as well as the next steps for a large-scale application.

ONTOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF PROFESSIONAL REFLECTION OF A TEACHER IN PEDAGOGICAL INTERACTION

Purpose. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the psychological essence of professional reflection of a teacher in pedagogical interaction. With this in mind, the article analyzes the main approaches to the study of professional reflection of a teacher, which are based on the epistemological paradigm and proposes a model of teacher reflection that takes into account its ontological features in interaction with children. Methods. To achieve this goal, general scientific methods of theoretical level were used: analysis, comparison, systematization and generalization of scientific-theoretical and empirical data. Results. Professional reflection of the teacher ensures the teacher’s entry into a reflexive position during pedagogical interaction, stimulates the experience of his own subjectivity in the field of professional activity, determines the peculiarities of teacher management of pedagogical interaction. The reflexive position has value and instrumental components. The value aspects of the reflexive position are characterized by the rank of reflection. The article analyzes the main ranks of the reflexive position in accordance with the types of value attitude of the teacher to professional activities. Attitude to the profession as a means of life is inherent in the zero rank of professional reflection. The first rank is characterized by the teacher’s attitude to professional activity as a goal of his own being. The second rank of the reflexive position characterizes the attitude to the profession as a personal value.The instrumental component of the reflexive position is the pattern of reflexive processes. The pattern of reflexive processes covers the main spheres of professional activity of the teacher, ensures their integration and regulation, determines the teacher’s ability to take into account various aspects of the real situation of pedagogical interaction, to comprehend their mutual influence and interdependence. The areas of manifestation of reflexive processes are: their own cognitive structures and cognitive structures of students, which are connected with the subject and methodological means of educational and educational influence; cooperative aspects of pedagogical interaction with pupils; professional self-consciousness; existential and spiritual formations of the teacher’s personality. Conclusions. The systematic approach allowed to reveal the ontological aspects of the teacher’s professional reflection. Reflection provides a teacher’s understanding of himself in relation to students. The results of this reflection determine the strategy and methods of teacher management of the development of students’ personalities in the educational process.Key words: ontology, systematic approach, teacher reflection, reflexive position, pattern of reflexive processes. Метою статті є обґрунтування психологічної сутності професійної рефлексії вчителя у взаємодії з учнями. З огляду на це у статі проаналізовано основні підходи до вивчення професійної рефлексії педагога, які засновані на гносеологічній парадигмі, та запропоновано модель рефлексії вчителя, що враховує її онтологічні особливості у взаємодії з учнями. Методи. Для досягнення поставленої метивикористано загальнонаукові методи теоретичного рівня: аналіз, порівняння, систематизація та узагальнення науково-теоретичних та емпіричних даних.Результати. Реалізація основних принципів системного підходу дозволила визначити професійну рефлексію вчителя як психічну властивість та механізм, що забезпечує вихід вчителя у рефлексивну позицію під час педагогічної взаємодії з учнем, стимулює переживання власної суб’єктності у сфері професійної діяльності та визначає особливості управління вчителем педагогічної взаємодії з учнем, яке характеризуються урахуванням меж власного «Я» та «Я» учня. Рефлексивна позиція має змістов-ний та інструментальний складники. Змістовні аспекти рефлексивної позиції визначають ранг рефлексії. У статті аналізуються основні ранги рефлексивної позиції відповідно до типів ціннісного ставлення вчителя до професійної діяльності. Ставлення до професії як до засобу свого життя притаманно нульо-вому рангу професійної рефлексії. Перший ранг характеризується ставленням вчителя до професійної діяльності як до цілі власного буття. Другій ранг рефлексивної позиції визначається ставленням до професії як до особистісної цінності. Інструментальним складником рефлексивної позиції є патерн рефлексивних процесів. Патерн рефлексивних процесів охоплює основні сфери професійної актив-ності вчителя, забезпечує їх інтеграцію та регуляцію, визначає здатність вчителя враховувати різні аспекти реальної ситуації педагогічної взаємодії, осмислювати їх взаємовплив та взаємозалежність. Сферами прояву рефлексивних процесів є: власні когнітивні структури та усвідомлення когнітивних структур учнів, які пов’язані із предметом та методичними засобами навчального та виховного впливу; комунікативні аспекти педагогічної взаємодії; професійна самосвідомість; екзистенційно-духовні утво-рення особистості вчителя. Висновки. Системний підхід дозволив розкрити онтологічні аспекти професійної рефлексії вчи-теля. Рефлексія як психологічний механізм та психологічна здатність забезпечує сутнісно-змістове осмислення вчителем себе у ставленні до учнів. Результати цього осмислення визначають стратегію та прийоми управління вчителем розвитком особистості учнів в освітньому процесі.Ключові слова: онтологія, системний підхід, рефлексія вчителя, рефлексивна позиція, патерн рефлексивних процесів.

Pre-service Teacher Reflection and Feedback Using an Online Video Platform During Professional Experience

This paper presents the results of a pilot study in which 11 triads comprising a pre-service teacher, a supervising teacher and a university supervisor used a video platform for pre-service teacher self-reflection and for the provision of feedback. Pre-service teachers made video recordings of one lesson each week during a four-week professional experience placement. They annotated the videos using time-stamped comments and shared them with their supervisors who added comments to provide feedback. The annotations were investigated through questionnaires and interviews that were analysed for their depth of reflection and participants’ views about the video reflection process. Results indicate that the video process only marginally supported the provision of targeted feedback and pre-service teacher reflection. Factors which contributed to these outcomes are discussed.

#learningtoreflect

Although research on teacher reflection is vast, research on preservice teachers’ (PSTs) use of social media and multimodal reflections is minimal. This study provides greater understanding into how PSTs used Instagram as a platform for engaging in reflection. Throughout an academic year, a group of fourteen PSTs used Instagram several times each week to reflect on their field experience rather than writing a reflective paper. I propose that the participants in this study were photoreflecting, which is the process of deep consideration as one transmediates images and print language. The participants in this study photoreflected by (a) photojournaling, (b) noticing, (c) noticing and extending, (d) noticing and problem solving, and (e) noticing and changing. Participants photojournaled the most and noticed and changed the least.

TWO OBSTACLES TO ENABLING CHANGE IN ELF-AWARE TEACHER EDUCATION AND HOW TO OVERCOME THEM

<span lang="EN-GB">In this paper I discuss the possibilities, opportunities, challenges and (even) perils in applying the ELF-aware perspective in teacher education. I focus on presenting two obstacles in enabling this application, the first related to teachers’ attitudes, which tend to be fundamentally negative, and the second referring to an uncertainty about establishing, applying and evaluating appropriate ELF pedagogy. The obstacles are discussed with reference to examples from my personal experience as teacher educator, and argue (a) that these obstacles are also present in more “traditional” teaching and teacher education practices and (b) that they can be overcome if they are perceived as opportunities for integrating real-life interactions involving non-native English language users in the EFL classroom and prompting EFL teacher reflection and growth.</span>

Use of a Metacognitive Tool to Facilitate Teacher Reflection in an Online Graduate Literacy Course

This chapter describes use of a metacognitive tool to facilitate teacher reflection in an online graduate reading practicum course. The Teacher Learning Instrument (TLI) is a tool designed to support the evidence-based practice of reflection on teaching through collaborative inquiry. The purpose of using the TLI in an online reading practicum course is to facilitate candidates' reflections on teaching struggling readers in one-to-one intervention settings with the goal of refining instruction to improve students' reading ability. The analysis of the assignment data associated with use of the TLI demonstrates the potential of the TLI to inform a collaborative, reflective process among practicing teachers within the context of a practicum course, addressing the requirements of Standard 7. The reflective process and sharing of insights among colleagues make literacy instructional practices visible for close examination in an online environment and thus exposes the complexity inherent in the effective teaching of struggling readers.