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 has been recently updated to focus 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 at a chosen area of your own teaching in depth, and take steps to make significant improvements to it.

What Trainees Say

"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)