Reflective practice

“In general, reflective practice is understood as the process of learning through and from experience towards gaining new insights of self and/or practice” (Boud et al 1985; Boyd and Fales, 1983; Mezirow, 1981, Jarvis, 1992). Dewey (1933) was the first to really describe and define reflective practice. He argued that it was an opportunity for people to move away from routine thinking to a critical consideration of knowledge (Finlay, 2008). Dewey started the concept but for the purpose of…

What would my employees think? Am I a pushover? Will more complaints occur? In order to avoid these questions and any resulting regret the decision was made based on the regret theory (Plous, 1993 p.101). 3. Compare and contrast your understanding of judgment and/or decision making using these three different theoretical approaches. My understanding of the judgment was based on the surrounding context. The baseline for the behavior of the employee was determined by a reference point,…

Inclusive practice Is an approach to teaching that recognises the diversity of students, enabling all students to access course content, fully participate in learning activities and demonstrate their knowledge and strengths at assessment. Inclusive practices include .. • Being approachable, welcoming and genuinely interested. • A setting having adaptive policies and procedures ie. a system exists where policies and procedures of a setting can be updated to ensure they enable inclusion. • Having…

Reflective Practice in Professional Development of Early Childhood Educators Based on my personal own observations, Early Childhood Education (ECE) teachers usually go through many professional developmental stages. Accordingly, the level of ECE competency for each of these professional developmental stages depends on mastery of teaching techniques, choice of appropriate learning tools, and implementation of effective educational methods or frameworks. Therefore, ECE teachers can progressively…

Leadership Reflective Practice Paper 1 Key opportunities for development I have identified self-belief in my competency as a critical portion of my future development. If I reflect back on what I have achieved to date and the time to achievement and overlay that with the credit I grant to myself, there is a mismatch. This stood out for me during time to think and reflect sessions over the course of the programme where you physically have to make a concerted effort to focus on the “me”. There…

Reflective practice is a self evaluation process in which a person steps back and critically analyze his experience and tries to learn from his experience and to construct change in his practices. Reflection can be done by engaging with a critical friend, a reflective practitioner or through self observation. There are different types of reflection • Descriptive reflection • Dialogic reflection • Critical reflection Gain from reflective practice: Learning process:…

Reflective practice is to reflect on what happened, how to improve and how to implement on this. 1.2 Reflective practice is important as it identifies areas that can be improved ensuring the highest level of care is provided, this also allows for others to change their ways of working through other peoples identification of required improvements. 1.3 Standards are set out which all are required to achieve, by carrying out reflective practice areas for development can be identified to ensure…

2.1 Being able to reflect on practice is a vital skill that is required in order to become and stay a professional, successful childcare practitioner. Reflective practice has a variety of benefits within settings; these benefits can be gained through different strategies, such as, the reflective cycle, reviews, staff meetings, assessments and observations with constructive feedback. ‘Reflection is an essential…

Approaching the roleplay task, I was hesitant, with limited knowledge of tele-practice, I had little faith this would be an effective form of therapy. There was no scaffold to approach this task only prompts, so my partner and I used Facetime as our medium. I realised the lack of physical contact was a challenging barrier, especially with the roleplay patient requiring physio for their ACL injury. This lack of intimacy made it difficult to interpret my clients’ discomfort, as physical…

to attain a sufficient level of achievement, and spending time in deliberate practice that will result in the development of talent. I have spent the last 12 months learning guitar and made great progress. However, I realise that to really excel in my chosen instrument, I need to spend more hours each week in deliberate practice to attain the musical proficiency needed to perform in front of an audience. Deliberate practice requires hours of observational learning, self-reflection, on-task skill…