I'm going back to school now. This is an exciting time. It is a time where I can commit myself to improving my habits as an educator. One of these things is a healthy dedication to reflective teaching.

When I was going through school to become an educator I was taught the importance of reflecting on my own teaching practice. To illustrate, and force, the point, my instructors made me write a page of reflection five days a week and send it in to them for review. I spent that time making up experiences I never really had and expanding upon thoughts that never really existed in my head. Occasionally I had something I needed to write and for which this venue was a perfect opportunity to expand and examine my thoughts. Mostly, though, I had nothing to reflect on.

Despite not being enthusiastic about writing five pages of reflection a week, I have always felt like I was a reflective practitioner. I spend plenty of time every single day after class trying to examine what went right and what went wrong in my classroom. There are always days where I meditate for five minutes and come out of my thoughts to declare to myself that pretty much everything I did that day was a disaster.

But, like I said, I'm going back to school now. I also said this is an exciting time and that I can dedicate, or rather, rededicate myself to being a reflective practitioner in a much more formalized way.

That is what this blog is for.

*Note: It is important to realize that I will never write about anybody specific, nor about my students, my coworkers, or anybody that is actually real. In fact, none of this is real. Question everything, disbelieve regularly and read at your own peril.