Reflective Practice Essay

Reflective practice is a great method for practitioners to assess themselves and learn from their experiences. Schön introduced 3 ideas about reflective practice; the first of which being, ‘Reflection in action: reflect on behaviour as it happens, so as to optimise immediately following the action.’ (Meggitt, C. and Bruce, T. 2015:476) This allows practitioners to assess their own actions as they are conducted. Practitioners can use this method of reflection when conducting small activities or challenges with children, changing a reading book for example. During a small activity practitioners are able to see how a child responds to them and provide the correct level of guidance and support in a way that the child will respond best, if a practitioner assesses themselves during an activity it can allow for the …show more content…
and Bruce, T. 2015:476) By reflecting after an event, activity or day has been completed allows for a practitioner to see the positives and negatives of their own practice. This can also make a practitioner aware of what they need to do to support the children and the methods that work best for each child. Some children may not respond well to certain methods, for example a child may respond more if a reward was offered or if the activity involved something that is of interest to them. During placement, I found that most children held a fondness for ‘Dear Zoo’ by Rod Campbell, so using this knowledge, practitioners within the setting conducted activities surrounding this story to support the emergent literacy development of the children. At a certain point throughout the day the practitioners within the setting would take 10 minutes or so to fill out reflection sheets on their own actions until that point in the day, it allowed for practitioners to keep track of everything they decide to do with the children and how they can improve upon their own actions to benefit themselves and the