Although this article is relatively old, it touches me because it is fundamentally about "what it means to be a teacher," which for me as a teacher-training student is something I will have to think about and adjust to throughout my career as a teacher. How to become a reflective teacher is what this article has been talking about, and what touched me the most was the author's citation of Dewey to illustrate the first of the prerequisites for reflective action: open-mindedness. One of the points that gave me a lot of food for thought and prompted me to think about it is that I originally thought of open-mindedness as listening to and accepting multiple opinions, but this article adds that open-mindedness also involves continually examining the rationale behind what is considered to be naturally occurring and so-called "right" and looking for confliction in issues of educational practice.
For us prospective teachers, it is easy to be told what is right by many experienced teachers in the process of learning and growing, but in my personal experience, I rarely go deeper to study and think about the reasons behind these right things and whether these right things are really suitable for me, and thus I lose the process of searching for contradictions in practice, and may even feel puzzled when contradictions and problems really happen. problems may still be puzzled, and by then a lot of time has been wasted in reviewing the reasons of the problems.
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