This past week I stumbled across an article by Kathleen Bailey called "Promoting our own Professional Development Through Reflective Teaching Journals." It's available at the World Federation of Modern Language Associations website in the May 2005 newsletter (pages 12-22). (The following link will take you to the newsletter as a pdf file. The article begins on page 12.)
Here's the opening paragraph...
"Working in the tradition of reflective teaching, over the past two decades many language teachers around the world have kept journals as a way of documenting and investigating their teaching. In this paper I will offer excerpts from several teaching journals. The dual focus here will be first on reflective teaching as a way of promoting our own professional development, and second on the insights that some language teachers have gained by keeping teaching journals."
This article is a clear and accessible overview of what is involved in keeping a reflective teaching journal. I find that reading the insights that other teachers have gained through their own reflective practice is good motivation for continuing to reflect in my teaching journal.
Read it and get motivated yourself!
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