I was reading this article about Educational Research, “Creative Thinking and Doing”, and it addresses a very important type of research, the case of study and it sees it as a reflective practitioner, it means that teachers on their everyday activities must be able to be reflective about what they are doing and how are they teaching. I personally believe that the reflections are a very important part of our work as teachers and most of all the reflection in action, on our own way of acting. These reflections can revel us important information about ourselves and our practice. For some teachers result very difficult to make some reflections about themselves, it is very easy to talk about other people’s behavior but when it comes to ourselves, we find very hard to critique and make changes.

The information that we can get form reflection in action will subsequently become knowledge. With knowledge we can take action and make changes. First I think we need to be able to look back upon our action, this could be by asking ourselves questions (what did I did?, what happened?, how I did address this?), then when we already have the answers of those questions we have information, but maybe not all the information is important, here we need to select and be aware of the important information. After this we can look for different alternatives of doing things in order to find the best and appropriate way of doing or solve those problems. But the reflections don’t end there, we also need to reflect about our new strategies or alternatives, there this becomes an endless work.

It is teacher’s responsibility to attribute to these reflections a major character and it depends on the teachers and educational community in general to give the value that reflections need to have in our educational practices. Let me leave you with these questions: Is your educational community valuing reflections in practice? Are you given enough value to your own reflections?