Research as an Opportunity to Assess Teachers' Professional Practice
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https://doi.org/10.15359/rep.6-2.6Keywords:
student-teaching practicum, practicum, classroom research, action-research, data collection techniquesAbstract
Reflecting on the pedagogical practice must be a continuous and systematic activity in search of the teaching
and learning process improvement. The research on that field represents an excellent way of analyzing the process through a teacher's introspection on his own feelings and opinions. This reflection allows the teacher to recognize his strengths and weaknesses in order to improve his teaching practice. This paper presents some techniques on how to approach the classroom research and the action-research as methods for valuing the guided teaching practicum of most of the practices in careers in teaching, except for the teaching of English of Educology Division.
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