Physical Education 2014 Terms and Definitions Agonist and Antagonist – these are terms for muscles‚ which work in pairs. Agonist – is the muscle‚ which is the prime mover and creates the initial movements via contraction e.g. the bicep is the antagonist muscle‚ when you pull your arm towards you bending at the elbow. Antagonist – is the muscle‚ which relaxes to allow the movement to occur e.g. the triceps will relax to allow your arm the bend at the elbow. Flexion – decreasing the
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in regards to nursing‚ is defined as conscientious and meticulous consideration of intrapersonal thoughts. Hence ‘reflective practice’ is the self-assessment and critical analysis of one’s behaviour and views from which one can improve. (Fukada & Okuda‚ 2014). For registered nurses‚ reflection allows them to gain perspective on their practice and challenge thinking‚
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Reflective Practice in the context of teaching ESOL Reflective practice engages practitioners in a continuous cycle of self-observation and self-evaluation in order to understand their own actions and the reactions they prompt in themselves and in learners (Brookfield‚ 1995; Thiel‚ 1999). Reflective practice is considered as an evolving concept which views learning as “an active process of reviewing an experience of practice in order to describe‚ analyse‚ evaluate and so inform learning about
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“Reflection is not just a thoughtful practice‚ but a learning experience”. (Jarvis 1992) This is a reflection on an incident that occurred during a shift on the labour ward. I have chosen Gibbs model of reflection (1988) to guide my reflective process. (Gibbs 1998) (Appendix I). Gibbs model (1998) goes through six important points to aid the reflective process‚ including description of incident‚ feelings‚ evaluation‚ analysis‚ conclusion and finally action plan. The advantage of Gibbs’s six-stage
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The reflective practice and the use of a journal is an important tool for teachers to use to access their teaching practices and discover what is going well and areas that are in need of improvement. While in the moment we may not be able to see all angles of a situation‚ but when we take the time to sit down and write out thoughts‚ feelings‚ and actions that took place we can look back on a situation and see where and why things happened the way they did and how to maximize or minimize the potential
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relation to reflective practice (Dewey‚ 1938; Kolb‚ 1984; Schön‚ 1981; Pollard 2008; Moon 1999). From this it could be argued that reflective practice in its simplest terms is looking back on a situation either at the time or a later date to critically analyse that event in terms of what went well‚ what can be improved and the overall outcome of that situation. Teachers have become comfortable with the idea of reflective practice through Donald Schon’s (1983) compositions about reflective practitioners
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concept of reflective practice centres around the idea of life long learning in which a practitioner analyses experiences in order to learn from them.Reflective essay helps to promote critical thinking and analytical skills of the student.Reflective practice concept was introduced by Donald Schon (1983) and later many other researchers also been described reflective practice [Kurt Lewin‚Jean Piaget(1993)‚Benner and Wrubel (1989) Gibbs (1988) and Johnson (2000). Gibbs (1988) reflective cycle is
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Using reflective practice into courses The definition of “reflective practice”: “Reflective practice” is defined as framing and revising questions to get a deep insight of an issue and have better understanding of it. Using reflective practice into courses: To reach the aim of the course‚ some methods related to reflective practice which the article talks about can be used when we are doing group works for an essay or analyzing a business case individually. Firstly
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Introduction Reflective practice has become a key driver with professionals In education but also in general purpose‚ Reflective practice introduces a learning process to critically analyse and evaluate the existing knowledge and to inforce new idea’s to improve. “Reflective practice is an essential part of developing an evidence based approach” (Stephenson‚ et al‚ 2007‚ p34) And is a core activity for practitioners within Youth justice alongside critical thinking so that practitioners and managers
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This essay will focus on developing reflective practice through exploring a critical incident in the workplace. It will explore different methods of reflection and use one particular method to reflect on the critical incident (appendix 1) and explain why this individual method was chosen. It will evaluate individual career development by reviewing past practice and the skills that have been gained throughout time‚ for example teamwork‚ group roles and experience gained‚ which will be ways to measure
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