Keeping a diary helps you to reflect on your teaching practice. Writing down your thoughts and reflections in an organised way helps to focus your mind on what happens in your lessons. Reviewing your diary can help you to see patterns in your teaching and help you to identify areas to research. It can also help to show you how you have developed over a period of time.
There are a number of ways of organizing your diary. It is a good idea to experiment with different methods to find out what is best for you.
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Write a few questions that you will answer after each lesson.
- Write a description of the lesson
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Pick one aspect of the lesson that made an impression on you and write about it.
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Choose a heading, for example ‘What I learned from teaching this lesson’ Or ‘How I would teach this lesson better next time’ and write about that.
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Write comments on your lesson plans and keep them in your diary. This will help you remember what changes you would make to the lesson if you teach it again.
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Think about what you want to learn from each lesson. Write your aims for the lesson in your diary before you teach it for example: ‘By the end of this lesson I want to know …’ After the lesson say whether you have achieved your aim.
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