University Teaching Module: Reflective Essay on Classroom Practices

This reflective essay delves into the author's personal teaching philosophy and practices. The essay emphasizes the importance of a teacher's role in modeling appropriate behavior and fostering respect among students. It explores ethical considerations, such as fairness in grading and classroom management, as essential elements for promoting positive student conduct. The author highlights the significance of promoting equality and diversity, valuing students from diverse backgrounds, and implementing inclusive teaching methods to cater to various learning styles and abilities. The essay underscores the importance of adaptability and flexibility in teaching, emphasizing the need for teachers to adjust their approaches to meet the diverse needs of their students, thereby creating an effective and inclusive learning environment. The essay provides references to support the concepts discussed.

Running head: REFLECTIVE EASSY ON TEACHING
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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Task A:
Individual Reflective Work:
Promoting appropriate behavior and respect to others is one of the major and important
responsibilities of a teacher. Being a teacher, I strongly believe that I must behave in certain and
proper way in order to be a role model for the students. In addition, it is necessary for me to
follow the rules for appropriate behavior and respect to others to create impact in the mind of the
students, so that they are motivated and inspired to learn the same. For promoting the appropriate
behavior and sense of respect for others, I believe my attitude, perception and the way of
teaching the students play an important role. For example, if I make differences among the
students while teaching by showing additional or special attention to some students, can project a
negative impact on the students and in future they can follow the same in their practical life. It is
my responsibilities and duty to behave in a proper and sensible way to transfer the same to the
students. The ethical consideration is another element that can help me promoting the appropriate
behavior and respect for others among the students. For example, if I make sure of certain
percentage of the attendance of the students will allow them to appear for the examination and
according to their result I will provide reward or punishment to them, can make enable the
students for being aware of the ethics. In addition, disallowance of the mobiles in the classrooms
and discriminating behavior in the classroom and others general rules and regulation that I
maintain inside the classroom, I believe works as the guide for promoting appropriate behavior
and respect to others.
Other than the promotion of the appropriate behavior and respect to others it also comes
under my responsibilities to promote the equality and diversity in through the significant

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approaches and training. As I stated earlier I would not distinguish among the students who have
poor language skills or someone coming from aboriginal communities and this will certainly
promote equality. In addition, valuing diversity to me means valuing the diverse features and
components available in the class as well as among the students will help in the promotion of
diversity. I would like have a thorough inspection within my class to understand the present
circumstances of the same and the students in order to try to value both the equality and diversity
and aware the students about the same.
The inclusive teaching refers to the approaches used in the teaching according to the
needs of the students (Bondy and Ross 2012). The needs of the students are based on their
backgrounds, abilities and learning styles. Therefore, as a teacher I must consider the inclusive
teaching in order to make all the students understand the course and lesson of their study.
Similarly, the inclusive learning is the process of understanding and learning the same thing by
the different students despite of having different capabilities and learning styles (Mitchell 2014).
Thus, being a teacher I must be flexible enough to make all my students understand the course
material according to their needs. I always try to focus on the difficult points for the students
who face problems in understanding the same. Flexibility for me also refers to make easy such
situation where students face problems in meeting the target (Torrisi-Steele and Drew 2013).
Along with this, I believe, the adaptability is also important in the use of the inclusive teaching
and learning. Adaptability for the teaching and learning entails the capability of the teachers as
well as the students. Adaptability nature of mine as a teacher is capable of resolving various
problems and flaws in the class as well as among the students. It is also my responsibility to help
the students in growing their adaptability for the purpose of inclusive teaching. The adaptability
is the way for both the students as well as the teachers that can enable both the group in

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understanding the problems of each other and can lead to the effective teaching and learning (Lu
and Deng 2014). I affirm that, the flexibility and the adaptability is the two important elements of
teaching for the learning o the students irrespective of the differences in their capabilities and
learning styles.

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Reference:
Bondy, E. and Ross, D.D. eds., 2012. Preparing for inclusive teaching: Meeting the challenges
of teacher education reform. SUNY Press.
Lu, Z. and Deng, X., 2014. Teaching Adaptability, Teaching Approach Preference and Learning
Interest: Evidence from Freshman in Sichuan University, China. Asian Social Science, 10(7),
p.29.
Mitchell, D., 2014. What really works in special and inclusive education: Using evidence-based
teaching strategies. Routledge.
Torrisi-Steele, G. and Drew, S., 2013. The literature landscape of blended learning in higher
education: the need for better understanding of academic blended practice. International Journal
for Academic Development, 18(4), pp.371-383.