EF Certificate in Reflective Practice

The more you understand your own teaching, the more successfully you can improve and develop it.

TRT's Distance Learning Reflective Practice course focuses on the different techniques you can use to gain insight into your teaching and make big improvements in any area you choose. This includes peer observations, journalling, self-monitoring though video, peer coaching and analyzing 'critical incidents' - unexpected events that have occurred in your class.

The course ends with an action research project where you use all these techniques together to look in depth at a chosen area of your own teaching and take steps to make significant improvements to it.

Course duration: 6 weeks

Group size: Up to 20 participants

Delivery: Online via Motivis

Certification: 20hr EF teacher training certificate

Assessment: Reflective journal and interview with tutor

COURSE OVERVIEW

You will develop your teaching skills through self-reflection by keeping a reflective journal on your own development in a specific area of your classroom teaching. You will learn to use different techniques which can be used to reflect and to collect data in your lessons.

By the end of this course, you will be able to do the following:

How to Apply

Apply for this course in OMNI People. See the link here for a guide to this process: Distance Course Application Guide

What Teachers are Saying

"By taking this course, I am more familiar with different reflection methods and am more confident in applying some of them in my daily teaching. Since we were asked to practice different reflection methods each week, I got the chance to systematically look at my teaching and make further improvements. In addition, in the course forum, I also learned a lot from other peer teachers' reflections." (Cecelia Chai, Shanghai)

"This course continuously pushed me to challenge my thoughts and beliefs by asking questions and changing methods, which really helps me now to reflect and evaluate my teaching and any other related work." (Lynn Meng, Nanjing)

"Since bringing journaling and self-monitoring into my teaching practice, I've gained crucial insight into my thoughts and feelings about my classroom experiences which have led to new directions and developments that have revolutionised how I teach. Anybody who has a desire to improve as a teacher should consider investigating a reflective practice routine that works for them." (James Hadfield, HongKong)

"What impressed me most was reading case studies and two-sided analysis for each type of reflective practice and sharing with peers who have the same interests" (Sabrina Chen, Beijing)