Doing Reflective Practice in English Language Teaching: 120 Activities for Effective Classroom Management, Lesson Planning, and Professional Development

✍ Scribed by Thomas S. C. Farrell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This practical and engaging book introduces readers to refective practice in
English language teaching. Assuming no background knowledge, Thomas
S. C. Farrell clearly and accessibly walks through ways that teachers can
integrate and implement refective practice in the classroom and in other
contexts to beneft their teaching and their own professional development.
Each chapter covers an important dimension of refective practice and
features many ready-to-use activities that are designed to empower
teachers and allow them to overcome challenges they’ll face throughout
their careers. Covering many types of refection and the many purposes it
serves, this book addresses written refection, lesson planning, classroom
observation, classroom management, group communication and more.
This resource is ideal for preservice and early career language teachers and
is an important supplement to courses in language education and applied
linguistics programs.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
Half Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents Page
Preface Page
1 Invitation
1. Are You a Reflective Teacher?
2 Why Reflect?
2. Taking Stock
3. Life History
4. Personal Critical Incidents
5. Feelings About Teaching
6. Teacher Burnout
7. Ten Questions
8. Reflective Dispositions
9. Recognizing a Reflective Teacher
3 What Is Reflective Practice?
10. Routines
11. Bandwagons
12. Reflection as Process
13. Reflection as Action
14. Reflection as Product
15. Reflection as Community
16. Reflection as Moral Agency
17. Reflectivity
18. Dimensions of Reflection
19. Levels of Reflection
20. Spirals of Reflection
21. Typologies of Reflection
22. Reflecting on Philosophy
23. Reflecting on Principles
24. Reflecting on Theory
25. Reflecting on Practice
26. Reflecting Beyond Practice
27. Tailoring Reflection
28. Some Cautions
4 Written Reflections
29. Writing
30. Why Write a Teaching Journal?
31. Starting a Teaching Journal
32. Types of Teaching Journals
33. Audience
34. Using Teaching Journals Effectively
35. Teacher Narrative Writing
36. Teacher Research Writing
37. Technology and Writing
5 Reflecting in Groups
38. Dialogue
39. Group Reflections
40. Type of Group
41. Setting Up Groups
42. Roles and Responsibilities
43. Modes of Reflection
44. Communicating and Interacting in Groups
45. Trust
46. Time
47. Sustaining the Group
48. Evaluating the Group
49. Resisting Plateauing With Groups
6 Classroom Observations
50. Delight or Despair?
51. Purpose
52. Qualitative Observations
53. Self-Observation
54. Critical Friends
55. Recording
56. Category Instruments
57. Focus
58. Teacher Action Zone
59. Bumpy Moments
60. Classroom Critical Incidents
61. Etiquette
7 Lesson Planning
62. Why Plan?
63. Approaches
64. Creating a Plan
65. Planning and Textbooks
66. Implementing the Plan
67. Evaluating the Plan
8 Reflecting on Teaching and Assessing the Skills
68. Reflecting on Teaching Writing
69. Reflecting on Assessing Writing
70. Reflecting on Teaching Speaking
71. Reflecting on Assessing Speaking
72. Reflecting on Teaching Reading
73. Reflecting on Assessing Reading
74. Reflecting on Teaching Listening
75. Reflecting on Assessing Listening
76. Reflecting on Teaching Grammar
77. Reflecting on Assessing Grammar
9 Classroom Management
78. Manager or Conductor?
79. Organizing the Class
80. Space and Time
81. Diversity
82. Mixed Abilities
83. Learning Styles
84. Classroom Climate
85. Maintaining Order
86. The Back-Row Distracter
87. The Nonparticipant
88. The Overexuberant Student
89. Expecting the Unexpected
10 Classroom Communication
90. Classroom Communication
91. Classroom Interaction
92. Teacher Questions
93. Feedback
94. Grouping
95. Non-Verbal Communication
96. Classroom Communicative and Interactional Competence
97. Collecting Data
11 Teaching Portfolios
98. Reflection and Direction
99. Types
100. Contents
101. Subject-Matter Knowledge
102. Planning, Delivery and Assessing Instruction
103. Professionalism
104. Reflection
12 Practice Teaching
105. Microteaching
106. Field Placement
107. Teaching Context
108. Cooperating Teachers
109. Identity Development
110. Discourse Development
111. Evaluation
13 First Years
112. Transition
113. Your Classroom
114. Your Colleagues
115. The ‘Shock’
116. Overcoming the Imposter Syndrome
117. Developmental Stages
118. Getting Support
119. Professional Roles
120. Reflection as Way of Life
References
Index