Exploration On Reflective Teaching In Middle School English Teaching

With the launching of the second-round curriculum reform carried out on school campus here and there, teachers nowadays are faced with a shift from the traditional-typed to the new one with both originality and academic enquiry. To help teachers ease the transition, the idea of"reflective teaching"can do the job. With the theory of reflective teaching as guideline, we teachers are required to make our teaching more scientific so that teachers can be put on the road of all-rounded development. Therefore, reflective teaching is, in essence, a process of self-introspection, a process of self-negation, and a process of self-surmounting. It is the work of identifying problems coming up from our teaching practice and the work of solving them as a result.Since the idea is quite new and popular, almost all the teachers are actively engaged in trying it. Then, a question arises: how to do and what to do? How to do it better so as to bring about a desired result? These are the questions this paper attempts to answer, especially for the English teaching that takes place when students are in middle schools.By reviewing the theory advocated by the experts abroad, such as John Dewy, Donald Schon, Morewena Griffiths, and Sarah Tann, but more focusing on the idea from our domestic ones, such as professor Xiong Chuan-wu, Jing Yu-le, Lu Hong-bo, and Liu Xiao-hua, this paper, divided into eight sections, tries to probe the ways to put reflective teaching into practice. The first section relates the significance of carrying out reflective teaching in middle school through presenting some background information. The second section gives literary review including experts from both home and abroad, each of whom defines the term with different focus. The third section introduces the types of the teaching followed by what is supposed to be reflected in the fourth section. The fifth section lists five channels to do the job. The next two sections: the sixth and the seventh, discuss some possible obstacles facing to us teachers in the course of doing reflective teaching as well as some points deserving our attention. Then comes the last section: conclusion.To sum up, the new way of teaching opens a window for us to look at teaching work with fresh eye, to examine our teaching strategy from different perspective, and to look forward to a better tomorrow.