Reflective teaching encourages teachers to be students of teaching.
The undergraduate teacher education program at Gallaudet University can best be described as one that models a reflective learning and teaching process. The faculty act as models of reflective thinking, learning, and teaching while providing students with opportunities to engage in meaningful problem-solving. This program gives high priority to the process of learning and teaching. Successful graduates of the Gallaudet undergraduate teacher education program are expected to be critical thinkers and problem solvers who model for their students the synergistic process of reflective learning and teaching. Reflective teachers are those who consciously review their teaching, materials, and planning, who evaluate what works and does not work, and most importantly, make hypotheses about why it worked or did not work.