Professional reflection is a factor of improving the teacher's professionalism

Abstract

Professional reflection (that is, the focus of consciousness on oneself as a specialist, on the content of professional actions, on performing professional tasks) is an important factor of professionalism, competence, professional maturity, as it increases the efficiency of solving a wide range of everyday pedagogical problems. process of solving pedagogical problems, since it allows a person to take an external position in relation to himself/herself and his/her actions, which makes their conscious regulation possible. Thanks to reflective learning processes, solving educational problems is more efficient and optimized. The formation of such a skill uses the reflexive mechanism of the transition of activity from the internal form to the external, that is: the deployment of already formed mental actions that are inherent in personal reflection as an ontogenetically earlier variety of reflection. The role of reflection in the process of analyzing the teacher’s own constructive and methodical schemes, which he/she uses in the process of solving educational problems, is important. The existence of a direct relationship between the teacher’s orientation to independence in the design of educational solutions, the level of formation of his/her professional reflection and the methods of selecting information from various sources has been proved.