Reflection is one of the key
factors in a teacher’s competence building in both lesson plan writing and
classroom lesson delivery. You recently went to teaching practice. This exam
equivalent essay will require you to reflect on your experiences guided by the
Gibbs reflective cycle model.
Use Gibbs’s reflective cycle to reflect
on your teaching practice experience. Identify a critical incident based on
either teaching, learning, or assessment to reflect on.
A critical incident is any unplanned
event that takes place during the class. We interpret it as a problem or
challenge in a particular context, rather than a routine occurrence. The
incident is said to be critical because it is valuable and has some meaning. In
other words, incidents happen but critical incidents are created because of
their importance. Teachers can critically analyze their lessons and make a
particular event critical by reflecting on it. The teachers ask not only what
happened but also why it happened.
A critical incident is something that
we interpret as a problem or a challenge in a certain context.