preferences and developmental levels. Becoming a reflective practitioner is essential for a teacher to grow, expand and open up a wide range of possible choices and response to meet the needs of all students in a diverse classroom. A reflective practitioner refers to a teacher who actively engages in reflection practices with respect to daily teaching, pedagogy and personal beliefs (Larrivee, 2015). Through critical reflections on their behaviors and professional practices, teachers build confidence in dealing with inevitable dilemmas and tradeoffs involved in…
The purpose of the self-reflection journal is looking back at something that happened to you; how did you analyze the event or idea; what is the consequence or what it means to you and your ongoing progress as a learner. Self-reflection is exclusive component in life that helps us to understanding better of whom we are as individual, and what makes us to be what we are. In the relation to the Kim’s game exercise, I was quiet and contemplative in the beginning. As it was demonstrated visually I…
In my assignment of photo self-portrait I will be discussing the artist and the masterwork that I have chosen, also the movement in which the artist practiced. My masterwork that I have chosen to work on is belongs to Robert Mapplethorpe and it is his self portrait of 1980. In his artwork he portrays himself as the archetypal bad boy, with black leather jacket, dark shirt, cigarette hanging out of the corner of his mouth, the coolly appraising gaze and the carefully coiffed 50s style hair.…
After doing this character/self-esteem assignment, I managed to learn a lot of myself that I didn 't really know was there. Most of those things are negative one. After completing the negative/positive chart, I noticed that my answers are very different then my friend Paige’s. I noticed that when I evaluated myself I put more negative traits rather then positive one whereas my friend put more positive traits then negative ones. I believe that I tend to see the very negative traits about myself…
Mussel stated that when humans are raised in a safe, caring environment, they value their lives and lives of others (Mussell, 2005). Self-reflection of my spiritual development has revealed a balance in four basic spiritual needs. My need for meaning and purpose has been satisfied by the oneness and wholeness of my spiritual community. Born in a community where spirituality is a social function (Braverman, 1994), full expression of my spiritual development depended on my connection with others.…
Now is the time that face should form another, Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest, Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.”(Shakespeare 3) such introduction and word craftsmanship creates the visual parallel between both narratives and the reader, through the mentioning of a metaphorical mirror as well as the mentioning of self reflection. In The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator whom through isolation from the outside and physical world, joins in a mental union with the…
Self reflection is the mental process that acquires knowledge and understanding through thoughts and experience which helps encourage self awareness. This essay focuses on assessing my objectives and how I have developed my skills from the beginning of this semester until now. At the start of semester A, I wasn’t confident in preparing for the skills sessions and workshops. I wasn 't always able to find the correct answers to the workshop questions set which made it relatively difficult for me…
several self-reflections in order to evaluate and reflect upon my professional practice and dispositions. By completing these self-reflections, I have been able to improve and strengthen my ability to effectively model and facilitate technology-enhanced learning experiences. In the ITEC 7460 Professional Learning and Technology Innovation course, I was required to keep a Coaching Journal in which I kept a journal of what I had learned and discussed the challenges that I faced. In my ITEC…
my childhood and picturing my mother mostly I saw an angry person that yelled to get her point across. She was a single mother for the most part my day was gone for work a lot. This is all I know how to do with my own family. I am a dominating person who uses threats and destructive domination statements (page 168) I am always defensive and destructive with my conflicts. (Page 25). Dr. Gottman’s video of the four negative patterns for devoice really hit close to my heart. I saw myself and my…
This narrative is a reflection on my development as a health care professional. I will ponder on the start of my mental health nursing programme, my fears and feelings on commencing my training. I will reflect on the skills I had when I began my study, the skills I have learnt since I started training and the skills I will need to learn to develop as a capable healthcare professional. I will include an action plan on how I should be able to acquire the skills I need to improve my learning…