So I began my journal by just writing and seeing what came out. This helped me with getting started. I remember what a teacher once told me at school, 'if you are just staring at a blank page and you can think of nothing to write, just write anything even if it is just random words or letters', I tried this and sentences began flowing from my pen. I have taken each day I teach and tried to explore each way of writing journals. I still have a few left but at the moment, I feel 'evaluation' and also 'list' is working well for me. With listing things down I don't have to think as hard as things just come out in order. Evaluation helps to deepen my thoughts. After I have explored all the ways of writing, I think I will definitely explore these two ways in more depth as I think combining both together would really help me reflect.
I am teaching street, ballet, jazz and tap tomorrow so I am going to try and use charts, graphs and diagrams to help stimulate my reflection- maybe in a spider diagram. I am now going to research 'My life in graphs' as mentioned in the module handbook.
I am finding my reflective journal very helpful with improving my teaching as it shows me where I have gone wrong and how I could do things differently. Noting this all down helps, as it is not forgotten.
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