Reflective practice is crucial for modern teaching. It involves critically reflecting on teaching experiences, actions, and decisions. Reflection is a metacognitive strategy that helps teachers think about their beliefs, practices, classroom decisions, and events. It necessarily includes self-evaluation, which can be emotionally difficult. Reflection takes place through observation of oneself and others, team teaching, and exploring one's views of teaching in writing. The reflective process involves describing a teaching event without evaluation, then reviewing and responding to the event at a deeper level by asking questions.

2. If you were to describe teaching with a metaphor, which metaphor would you use?

9. Asking “what and why” questions gives us a certain power over our teaching. We could claim that the degree of autonomy and responsibility we have in our work as teachers is determined by the level of control we can exercise over our actions.