At the end of your learning experience you must walk through your day almost like an instant replay. Watch everything play by play and see where you went wrong and what caused it. Also see what you did right and what caused it. After you complete these evaluations or reflections then you can monitor and adjust. It is important that we reflect because that is how you become a productive and effective teacher.
Life is an ongoing learning process and so is teaching.
If you want to learn from your mistakes and also from what you did right, you have to reflect. You have to sit back and look at each situation that you performed as a teacher and evaluate what was effective and ineffective. Reflecting is vital because it helps you learn from you past mistakes, so that you do not make they again. It is folly to think that you can do the same thing over and over again and obtain different results. Reflecting allows you to see changes that need to be made and gives you the opportunity to change them.