Being reflective helps teachers provide meaningful and practical insights about the planning, process, and impact of a unit. Furthermore, it helps students become more aware of their progress and the strategies that are most effective for them. Toddle encourages such reflective teaching, where you take a look at what you do in your classroom and make informed choices for further teaching and learning.
This article will explore unit reflections on Toddle so that you can make the most of your classroom insights. It will give you a detailed walkthrough of the following sections under the unit plan-
Teacher reflections
Student reflections
Navigate to unit reflections
To begin, navigate to the unit planning module from:
Curriculum homepage → Preferred class → Planning → Unit planning
Next, click on the unit for which you would like to add or view the reflections.
Once you open the unit planner, navigate to the ‘Reflecting’ tab. Here, you will find separate sections for teacher and student reflections.
Reflection is a key part of the teaching and learning cycle - it helps refine unit plans, enhance instructional strategies, and improve student outcomes. Each of the sections has a list of prompts to help you write strong and meaningful reflections. Click on any section to view or add your inputs.
Teacher reflections
The collaborative teaching team exchanges formal and informal observations through planning documentation throughout the inquiry process. As a teacher, you can inquire into student learning as a way to assess your own practice and adjust your teaching accordingly. Use this section to type in your reflections as a teacher.
You can attach evidence, emojis, and audio notes to your reflections using the corresponding icons. Additionally, set a specific date on which the reflection should be saved using the ‘Now’ option.
Student reflections
Student reflections help develop dispositions that support learners in taking ownership of their learning. As they are guided through the unit, students build the ability to reflect, identify challenges, and work toward solving problems independently. To support this process, the section includes a set of prompts to help write strong and meaningful reflections.
Student reflections can be added using 2 ways:
As a teacher, you can ask the given prompt questions to your students and type in the reflections on their behalf.
If you choose to share your unit plans with students, specifically the student reflections section, then they will be able to add reflections from their end. Note that students can add and view only their own reflections, while teachers have access to all student reflections and can delete them if needed.
Read this article to learn more about sharing your unit planners with students and collecting reflections directly.
In both cases, the options to upload files, insert links or notes, and add emojis or audio recordings are available, as shown below.
Unit reflection helps teachers to offer quality learning to their students by assessing teaching methods of the past and improving them for the future.
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