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PRACTICA REFLECTIVĂ PROFESORULUI – O NECESITATE
THE REFLECTIVE PRACTICE OF THE TEACHER – WHY IT IS NEEDED

Author(s): Ioana Stăncescu, Luminiţa Mihaela Drăghicescu, Ana Maria Aurelia Petrescu
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Centrul Național de Politici și Evaluare în Educație
Keywords: competences; quality of educational process; reflective practice; reflective teacher; teaching style;

Summary/Abstract: The world we live in is one in permanent change, reorganization, transformation. The educational system has to connect to this world and to form future responsive, flexible, creative adults that respond appropriately to social demands. Referring to such a goal, the educational process aims the formation of students with important competences, like communicational, cognitive and metacognitive, emotional, intercultural, investigative, digital and civic competences. The question in this situation is what kind of teachers can form such students. Beyond the initial and continuous training for the teaching profession, teachers need to understand that the efficiency of the didactic activity implies, necessarily, the reflection on it. This study focuses on the concept of reflective practice, on delimiting the stages of this demarche, on identifying methods and instruments specific to reflective practice (reflection diary, video and audio recordings of the lessons, feed-back, etc.) and, respectively, on shaping a possible personality model of the reflective teacher, which subsumes the following dimensions: self-knowledge, knowledge of students, knowledge of the school organization, knowledge of the curriculum, knowledge in the pedagogical field. We consider that reflective practice is a valuable resource, insufficiently used, which can bring important benefits to the teacher and, implicitly, to the students, towards the scholar success and, subsequently, the professional and social success.

  • Issue Year: LXVI/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 93-109
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Romanian