Foundations of Teaching Reflection: Annotated Bibliography Analysis

This homework assignment is a reflective analysis on the foundations of teaching, incorporating an annotated bibliography. The student examines the importance of effective communication between teachers and students, drawing insights from various academic journals. The assignment highlights the role of communication in motivating students, fostering participation, and addressing classroom challenges. It emphasizes the teacher's responsibilities in imparting education, providing motivation, and making informed decisions. The student reflects on personal observations, noting the significance of understanding individual student needs and adapting teaching methods accordingly to build rapport and support student learning. The assignment also includes references to key educational resources and research papers that support the student's reflections.

Running head: REFLECTION ON FOUNDATIONS OF TEACHING
REFLECTION ON FOUNDATIONS OF TEACHING
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Section A
Annotated bibliography
Duta, N., Panisoara, G., & Panisoara, I.-O. (2015). The effective communication in
teaching. Diagnostic study regarding the academic learning motivation to students.
Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 186, 1007-1012.
The references to the annotated bibliography has helped me to learn about the factors
regarding communication skill that affects the practice of teaching. The journals helped me in
gaining a better insight into the factors that help in growth and development of the students. The
factor that affects the growth and development of students the most is the communication skill of
the teacher. I am a pre-service teacher myself, thus these annotated bibliographies helped me a
lot to understand the importance of effective communication between the teacher and the
students. This journal helped me to understand the fact that the effective communication between
the teacher and the student is necessary in order to motivate the students to participate in various
activities and communicate in the various programmes that are organised.
The journal presents a study of a total number 245 students from over four different
universities situated in Romania. These students were assigned various activities on
communication. The journal presents a study of the recorded and observed responses of both the
teachers and the students regarding the communication activities assigned to the concerned
students. The journal in discussion provides the readers with an extensive explanation of the
significance of the skill of communication in the job of a teacher. The journal deals with the
practical as well as the conceptual approaches towards the understanding of the ways in which
the communication skills of a teacher may affect the development and the growth of a student.

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The journal in discussion helped me to understand the methods that must be utilized to
tackle the challenges that the students as well as the teachers face. According to the journal, the
students must be presented with new inspirations to arouse their curiosity on the subject. The
teachers should provide their students with success in the early stages of the activity so as to
boost the development of confidence of the student. The students should bear a positive outlook
towards the activity that they are assigned. It is considered to be the duty of the teacher to cater
to the needs of the students in an individual manner.
Section B
A teacher is known to be a person who helps the student to gather knowledge and skills.
A teacher has to fulfil a number of various responsibilities towards the students. The primary
responsibility of the teacher is to impart education to the students. A teacher should help in
providing the students with motivation in order to develop their urge and ability to learn. A
teacher is expected to take decisions based on the correctness. The decisions taken by the teacher
should be well-informed decisions (Zeichner & Liston, 2013). The concept of education is based
on the theory of exchanging of information (Erozkan, 2013). The power to communicate with the
student will help me in my future days as a teacher. One of my main roles as a teacher would be
understanding the problems of my students (Danielson, 2013). The only way to establish an
understanding between the student and the teacher is to establish an effective communication
between them.
I have observed several times that there is a hesitation on the part of the student to
approach the teacher. This may be the result of the fact that the student lacks enough confidence
in the subject or due to the fact that the student is scared of approaching the teacher with the

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issue of his problems. This occurs mainly due to the communication lack between the teacher
and the student (Owens, 2016). A student should never be hesitant to approach the teacher on
any issues that he is facing regarding education or any significant phase of his life. The assurance
of the fact that the teacher is available for any kind of help that the student might need helps in
the formation of a bond between the teacher and the student. This bond helps the teacher to
understand the psyche of the students better and thus help him to solve the issues that the student
comes up to him with.
I have observed in my class that every student is different from the other therefore the
methods of reaching out to each student must be different as well. I have observed that it is
relatively easier to approach the students who are outgoing in nature rather than those who are
shy and introverts by nature. The teacher should therefore adopt different methods to reach out to
each student (Danielson, 2012).

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References
Danielson, C. (2012). Observing classroom practice. Educational Leadership, 70(3), 32-37.
Danielson, C. (2013). The framework for teaching: Evaluation instrument. Princeton, NJ:
Danielson Group.
Duta, N., Panisoara, G., & Panisoara, I.-O. (2015). The effective communication in teaching.
Diagnostic study regarding the academic learning motivation to students. Procedia-Social
and Behavioral Sciences, 186, 1007-1012.
Erozkan, A. (2013). The Effect of Communication Skills and Interpersonal Problem Solving
Skills on Social Self-Efficacy. Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 13(2), 739-
745.
Owens Jr, R. E. (2016). Language Development: An Introduction| Edition: 9. Instructor.
Zeichner, K. M., & Liston, D. P. (2013). Reflective teaching: An introduction. Routledge.