TITLE:
To Promote the Development of Teachers’ Teaching Beliefs from Reflective Teaching
AUTHORS:
Zhaohao Nian
KEYWORDS:
Social Expectation, Teaching Reflection, Teaching Beliefs
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.11,
November
13,
2020
ABSTRACT: With
the development of a pluralistic society and the arrival of a lifelong
education society, the whole society’s expectation for the development of
education has become more and more. Therefore, the educational expectation from
society is undoubtedly a significant challenge to the professional development
of teachers. Teachers’
professional development means the development of a teacher’s personal,
professional life, including the enhancement of confidence, skills, and
knowledge. The knowledge of the subject taught is continuously updated,
broadened, and deepened (Hoyle & Megarry, 2016). Teachers’ professional
development is the accumulation of knowledge and skills and the system of
teachers’ thinking, values, and beliefs. Encouraging teachers to reflect on
teaching and improving their reflective ability can stimulate teachers’
sense of teaching efficacy and enable teachers to examine their
teaching behaviors and ideas systematically. Teachers as the source of
knowledge transfer and initiator, their beliefs in time, and the dynamic
teaching process gradually accumulate. The novice teachers are flexible to use
diverseteaching methods to be professional teachers in reflecting on the teaching and the long-term accumulation of reflective
teaching has become a new angle of view to review the professional development
of teachers’ beliefs.