Reflective practice – A tool for learning Introduction/Rationale When something goes wrong or something unexpected happens during a lesson or activity‚ we ask ourselves questions such as‚ could I have done something to avoid it? These experiences usually make us grow and we learn from experience‚ and we will be better prepared to face the situation if it happened again. This introspection is generally called “reflection”‚ and all professionals have adopted it in order to improve their practice
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A load of research has been done on learning and reflective practice and its effectiveness on the practitioners and one of the first people to research reflective Practice was Donald Schon in his book “The Reflective Practitioner” in 1983. Schon was an influential writer on reflection and had two main ways of identifying reflection and they were reflection in action and reflection on action. “The practitioner allows himself to experience surprise‚ puzzlement‚ or confusion in a situation which he
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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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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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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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GUIDE ON REFLECTIVE PRACTICE Reflective practice is the process of looking back on the work you have previously done in order to get better understanding of yourself‚ how you work‚ your thoughts‚ feelings and anything you can learn from those experiences‚ whether good or bad. It is a way of learning by reviewing and thinking back over a situation or an activity. As a result you can identify your strengths and weaknesses and start working on improving yourself. Most of the time you do some form
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The Standards Continuum Guide for Reflective Teaching Practice work as a support and evaluation system for educators. This guide not only grounds teachers‚ in regards to their subject material‚ it also develops self-awareness in the classroom‚ and encourages teachers to continue learning. Standards are essential to classrooms growth and should be used by all teachers. Organization According to the Standards Continuum Guide for Reflective Teaching Practice‚ standards “are broken down into indicators
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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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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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The importance of reflective practice. Reflective practice is the ability to constantly monitor one ’s own performance in a given role and make adjustments where necessary. For me reflective practice is particularly important because no two clients will ever be the same and it is vitally important to remain reactive and reflective at all times. Reflective practice has been demonstrated to have significant benefits when it comes to the delivery of client-centred care‚ and can help me to ensure
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