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In her article, "Looking Inside: Helping Teachers Assess Their Beliefs and Values" in the Exchange Press book Developing People, part of the Art of Leadership series, Paula Jorde Bloom offers an assessment tool to help teachers reflect on their attitudes and beliefs about children, parents and their own role in the classroom. Paula suggests that program directors benefit when they "better understand the undergirding values and beliefs that drive the teaching practices that they observe."
Program leaders can use this information in a variety of ways including:
"Directors must help teachers become reflective practitioners," she adds. "And reflection begins with an examination of one’s own belief system."
Contributed by Tina Reeble
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