Being Reflexive

During the class everything we planned may work or may not work. So, how can we foresee these? Actually we kind of can´t, since it´s truly impossible to see the future, but part of this job is possible to anticipate by class preparation and being reflexive.
In class preparation all the class can be predicted or expected by the class history of presence/absence, students´ performance (difficulties and what they consider easy) and what and how they like to do during class. Under all these elements the teacher already has an idea of what will be faced during the class.
Another element that a teacher should have is being reflexive. What is this? It´s the teacher reflecting about his/her practice in class.
During the class preparation usually teachers take notes on a paper about what they will do during the class and taking notes of what and how it went is a great way of checking if their class preparation worked and with time creating a historical of information that can base future class plan.
A valid tip is self recording your class even audio or video, with this a teacher can see him/herself in a different way. Because when teaching, teachers tend to think things are going well and the class will work perfectly, so this seeing yourself teaching is a great way to self evaluate your own practice. A second tip is having other teachers watching your class with a copy of your class plan, this teacher who is watching the class can give you a great feedback about it. To finish the tips is also really great to watch other teachers ´classes, with it you can grasp many ideas from other teachers and also check your own.
All these tips are valuable if well performed, many and great ideas can rise and increase your teaching skills. Don´t miss them.