Reflective diary as tool – UGC NET Question

Reflective teaching involves systematically thinking about one’s instructional practices and their impact on learners. Keeping a teaching diary allows the teacher to document what happened,analyse reasons and plan changes. This continuous cycle of reflection and action improves teaching quality. Hence,the tool described in the stem supports reflective teaching.

Option A:
Authoritarian teaching focuses on strict control and command,not on self-examination of teaching processes. Maintaining a reflective diary is inconsistent with an unreflective authoritarian stance.

Option B:
Reflective teaching encourages teachers to treat classroom experiences as data for professional learning,examining both successes and failures. Because the stem describes recording and analysing experiences,reflective is the correct option.

Option C:
Mechanical teaching suggests repeating routines without critical thought,which is the opposite of deliberately analysing lessons in a diary.

Option D:
Purely demonstrative teaching emphasises showing procedures without necessarily reflecting on how effective these demonstrations are,so it does not match the reflective diary practice.