The article presents the role of teachers’ professional reflection in inclusive education. A teacher in a classroom with pupils with diverse educational needs (including persons with disabilities, behavioural disorders or coming from different cultures) faces many non-standard educational situations. He/She must modify his/her educational activities based on observation of phenomena, deepening his/her knowledge and reflection on his/her observations. In these activities he/she should get the help of specialists, school administration and social environment. The author draws a model of changing the personal professional knowledge of teachers of self-reflection.
ReThe article presents the construct of the teacher’s educational philosophy in relation to thinking about the child and the student. The analysis of different ways regarding teacher’s thinking about his own decisions and actions towards the child reveals the sources and the ways of creating a personal educational philosophy. Individual beliefs about the students, nature of their development, their minds, their knowledge and learning processes can contribute to the continuous reflection and crystallization of TEP. In the following text the attention was also paid on possible teacher’s pedagogies that may arise from the mentioned reflection.
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