What is the Reflective Teaching Model?
Reflective Teaching is an inquiry approach that emphasizes an ethic of caring, a constructivist approach to teaching, and creative problem solving (Henderson, 1996). An ethic of caring respects the wonderful range of multiple talents and capacities of all individuals regardless of cultural, intellectual, or gender differences. A premium is placed on the dignity of all persons. Teachers using a constructivist approach place emphasis on big concepts, student questions, active learning, and cooperative learning, and they interweave assessment with teaching. A constructivist approach seeks to connect theory to practice and views the student as “thinker, creator, and constructor.” Integral to a constructivist theory of learning is creative problem solving.
