BETWEEN DIDACTICS, THE MENTOR AND THE PUPILS: TRAINEE REFLECTIONS CONCERNING THEIR TEACHING PRACTICES

• Authors: Martin Blaszk

Title variants

PL

BETWEEN DIDACTICS, THE MENTOR AND THE PUPILS: TRAINEE REFLECTIONS CONCERNING THEIR TEACHING PRACTICES

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

PL

Reflection in teacher development is important as it can help both experiencedand novice teachers to better understand the processes theyare involved in. It can also be used to aid evaluation processes. This paperpresents a small scale study that involved undergraduate Englishphilology students from Gdańsk University who were studying for theteacher specialisation. One of its purposes was to trial a strategy forfeedback that could be used to mediate an already existing model ofassessment for students’ taught lessons, which previous to the studyused only a prescribed set of assessment criteria. Another purpose wasto promote a reflective turn in both the student-teacher and academicmentor (myself), which would then inform the discussions that tookplace after each observed lesson. In addition to this, I was interested tofind out if this strategy would generate a suitable quality and quantityof information, so that it might be used for further research. Overall,the strategy proved a useful aid to reflection in relation to the students’teaching practices. As a research tool, it also generated usable data.

Keywords

EN

praktyka nauczycielska; refleksja dialogowa; ważni inni; badania jakościowe; badania pilotażowe; praktyka nauczycielska; refleksja dialogowa; ważni inni; badania jakościowe; badania pilotażowe

PL

teaching practices; dialogical reflection; significant others; qualitative research; pilot study

• Publisher: Polskie Towarzystwo Neofilologiczne
• Journal: Neofilolog
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 45/1
• Pages: 9-25

Dates

published

2019-03-22

Contributors

author

Martin Blaszk

• Uniwersytet Gdański

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/n.2015.45.1.01