Giáo viên cũng cần phải liên tục cập nhật và phát triển sự hiểu biết của họ về vấn đề, và cách này có thể được giảng dạy trong lớp học, cũng như kiến thức và sự hiểu biết về cách học sinh học hỏi và phát triển, và làm thế nào học sinh học tập có thể bị ảnh hưởng bởi một loạt các phát triển | 122 Essential Teaching Skills extent to which teachers are engaged in regularly and systematically reflecting on their own classroom practice. Teachers also need to continuously update and develop their understanding of subject matter and how these can be taught in the classroom as well as their knowledge and understanding of how pupils learn and develop and how pupil learning can be affected by a variety of developmental social religious ethnic cultural and linguistic influences. Whilst some initial grounding in these areas will be established during initial teacher training as noted by their inclusion in the TDA 2007 QTS standards these need to be revisited in the light of new research findings as well as in the light of changes in policies. For example the Every Child Matters agenda Cheminais 2006 dies 2004b has placed new requirements on teachers to update their understanding of the legal requirements and policy concerning the well-being of pupils how best to support pupils whose progress development and well-being is affected by changes or difficulties in their personal circumstances when to refer pupils to colleagues for specialist support. Whilst these requirements are reflected in the TDA 2007 QTS standards they also have important implications for the development of new practice amongst established teachers. Self-evaluation There are two key aspects of self-evaluation. First what aspects of your teaching need to be considered in order to improve your future practice Second how can you best go about improving your practice in the area that could usefully be developed The first aspect thus involves setting yourself or being set by others an agenda about classroom teaching to consider and then collecting some data that will enable you or others to judge the area that could usefully be developed. The second aspect deals with the programme for development. Setting an agenda for classroom teaching The initial agenda for your classroom teaching can be set in a .
