unit 4 engage in personal development in young person,s setting
Unit 4 – Engage in Personal Development in Young People’s setting.
1. What is meant by the term ‘reflective practice’, and why is it important in helping to improve the quality of the service provided?
The term ‘reflective practice’ means thinking and evaluating your actions so that you are able to improve yours and the schools practices. By reflecting on your actions with the children or other work within the school you can see what worked well and what needs improving with the activity.
You should have the opportunities to discuss your thoughts with other teachers and compare and share ideas. You can also benefit from observations, peer assessments and feedback from your assessor.
Reflective practice should help you become more confident in doing tasks as you can find better ways of completing a task. It will also help you clearly see where you need extra support or training therefore making you becomes more competent.
It helps to promote a better level of understanding and acceptance of people who are different from us, taking on board opinions, cultures and attitudes of others. By discussions with others it helps form change so that the changes are beneficial all and promotes a better way to learn. Also by discussions with others you may discover things about yourself that you hadn’t realised in your own reflections. By reflecting on what others have told you and from your own experiences it makes you proactive in your own training and improvement helping to increase your confidence in your abilities.
2. Give an example from your own experiences of reflective practice and show how it has improved your way of working.
When I first volunteered in school I did one to one support with reading to junior children. To begin with I would only ask the children to tell me the title of the book, read the passage on the back cover and make their mind up if it was a story or factual. While reading I would encourage them to sound the words out themselves.
1. What is meant by the term ‘reflective practice’, and why is it important in helping to improve the quality of the service provided?
The term ‘reflective practice’ means thinking and evaluating your actions so that you are able to improve yours and the schools practices. By reflecting on your actions with the children or other work within the school you can see what worked well and what needs improving with the activity.
You should have the opportunities to discuss your thoughts with other teachers and compare and share ideas. You can also benefit from observations, peer assessments and feedback from your assessor.
Reflective practice should help you become more confident in doing tasks as you can find better ways of completing a task. It will also help you clearly see where you need extra support or training therefore making you becomes more competent.
It helps to promote a better level of understanding and acceptance of people who are different from us, taking on board opinions, cultures and attitudes of others. By discussions with others it helps form change so that the changes are beneficial all and promotes a better way to learn. Also by discussions with others you may discover things about yourself that you hadn’t realised in your own reflections. By reflecting on what others have told you and from your own experiences it makes you proactive in your own training and improvement helping to increase your confidence in your abilities.
2. Give an example from your own experiences of reflective practice and show how it has improved your way of working.
When I first volunteered in school I did one to one support with reading to junior children. To begin with I would only ask the children to tell me the title of the book, read the passage on the back cover and make their mind up if it was a story or factual. While reading I would encourage them to sound the words out themselves.