Reflection employability coursework Flashcards
What is reflection?
Returning to experience
Attending to feelings
Evaluating experience
Done by:
Reflecting on an action or reflecting in action
Benefits of taking time to reflect?
Enables individuals to think more deeply and holistically about an issue, leading to greater insights and learning
Connects the rational decision-making process to a more effective and experiential learning process
Challenges individuals to ne honest about the relationship between what they say and what they do
Creates opportunities to seriously consider the implications of any past or future action
Acts as a safeguard against making impulsive decisions
The process of reflection?
What? - What happened, description/facts
So what?- what did this experience mean, interpretation, the feelings involved, what was learned
What are the next steps?
Seeing the bigger picture
Applying the lessons learned
Planning future action
To be a reflective practitioner?
It needs to involve creating habit, stature, or routine reflecting on experience
Take time to step back and make sense of what has done and why
Tries to understand the theories of change that guide action
Is not afraid to challenge assumptions
Self knowledge, critical thinking, inquisitiveness, emotional intelligence
Order of learning
data
information
knowledge
wisdom
Task?
Select a critical incident - knee surgery
Describe the experience
Devise powerful questions - why did I get it done, performance, who did I do it for
Draw a rich picture to engage your creativity
Reflect on and interpret the experience singly and with others -
Explore alternatives - what other routes could I have taken
Decide what to do next - shown my resilience, physio involved
Obstacles to reflecting?
Last slide on lecture and on desktop
Use kolbs or Gibbs model of reflection for assessment
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