According to Kail (2012), reflection is introspection as a result of events in our life and experiences good and bad. It results in how we perceive ourselves, others, and the world around us. Reflection is important for a leader and links his or her performance to their potential (Kail, 2012). Great leaders indulge in unpacking their thoughts and experiences for the benefit of others. Moreover, according to Muir, Scott, McConville, Watson, Behbehani, Sukkar (2014), “Reflective practice helps one in reappraising his or her professional performance for growth, learning, and development. Without reflection, one indulges in justification as a narcissist that makes him or her feel good about the events and prevents them from learning (Kail, …show more content…
Besides introspection, my strengths and weaknesses play a critical role in my work as a mentor. There have been times when I felt challenged to switch between an outward and an inward mindset. One such experience that resulted in growth as a leader as a result of a mistake was at the time when I lead the residency seminars, a district initiative specifically designed for novice teachers in the Resident Teacher Program. While preparing for one of the residency seminars the residency seminar team of four met to plan and collaborate on the presentation and professional development for an upcoming seminar. The plan was to have a common presentation for all grade levels. Two presenters who were tech savvy, started working on the presentation, which would be shared with the other two presenters. However, down the road, the two individuals who were working on the presentation found it overwhelming and asked the other two presenters for support. Due to different schedules and some external factors like adverse weather conditions, loss of power, and a weekend, falling …show more content…
Besides, the team reflection also helped recover the team morale and continued collaboration for the next seminar session. This episode helped me to find my leadership skills. Although, I had taken the right decision of switching roles to ensure everything went smoothly, yet, I learned that communication is the key in keeping all stakeholders informed of a situation and ensuring that everyone is part of decision-making. It is also important to keep a positive mindset, reflect in every situation, and avoid getting
The aim of this assignment is to give a reflective account on group presentation and the peer assessment process as well as the development of a personal action plan. It would involve using ‘The What? Model of Structured Reflection’ (Driscoll 2007) to analyse the experience of using a group designed assessment tool to assess my peers and the experience of being peer assessed. Additionally, experience of completing a group presentation would be reflected upon. A personal action plan which identifies areas for personal development and the designed assessment tool is attached as appendix 1 and 2 respectively.
* establishes a system of praise and constructive criticism - rewards and improvement; grows with the organisation
This unit does not introduce much new material. Instead, we expect you to integrate technical and theoretical knowledge acquired from study across your degree. We refer to two frameworks that may support you in carrying out this integration:
This essay is a reflective essay on my learning development from a young age through to my current position as a University Student. I will be relating my learning development back to two theories of human development, Vygotstsky’s socio-cultural theory and Marcia’s version of Erikson’s theory of identity development. I will identify and discuss the challenge I have faced with my identity and how this has impacted on my development.
Reflective practice in nursing is considered an important aspect to nursing. Durgahee ( 1997) defines reflective practice as a process of learning and teaching professional maturity through the critical analysis of experience, whilst John ( 2009) up to date explanation of reflection is learning through our everyday experience towards realising one vision of desirable practice as a lived reality.
Self-Reflection may be useful when leaders are confronted with complex and ambiguous circumstances. Employees can draw their own experiences and those of others to make sense of the issue and make a decision. The process of self-reflection can influence emotion regulation as well. Using self-reflection in this case for the VA, the employee could have remembered or found that these issues will be found out or reported,
Vital signs are a fundamental component of nursing care and indicate the body’s ability to maintain blood flow, regulate temperature and regulate oxygenate the body tissue. Taking vital signs are essential in revealing any sudden changes in the body, which could potentially indicate clinical deterioration of the patient.
Discuss how reflective practice is used by a Professional Body to ensure continued professional development
Reflection is an everyday process and is very personal matter. Jasper (2003) suggests that reflection is one of the key ways in which we can learn from our experiences. Reflective practice can be defined as process of making sense of events, situations and actions that occur in the workplace (Oelofsen, 2012).
I totally agree with what the author is saying in the text. It takes time to get a good product out even though we think some people are deep and wonderful they still have the same struggles that we have when it comes to writing. I like this text because it is realistic it is giving an account of first drafts from common day people and shows how it is even for professional writers have problems with. This point is important because as people we sometimes feel we are not as good or capable of doing something not realizing that the people we look up to have the same problems we do. Another point that I agree with the author on is that you have to start somewhere. Many times as writers we don’t know where to start when it comes to writing. That being said we will just sit and think for ten twenty minutes when we could've just been information on the paper and then editing it later. In addition I liked that the author used examples from his professional experience when it came to writing food reviews. By him using details like how he went to the restaurant and sat down with friends and took notes of what was said. This was good to me because it helps me connect with him and the things that he does to write his reviews.
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.
I organized my own work and volunteer experience including a course I took in high school working with student special needs; assisting in lessons, particularly with reading and math. Taking them to the outside, showing them how to shop and be able to pay for their items. This gave me an insight into how different disabilities impacted on the lives of the children, for some it affected concentration whilst others were unable to hold a pen properly. I want the opportunity to work with people to overcome such problems. I also work at a hospital. Where I a Certified Nursing Assistant, I spent time talking to patients as well as helping them with the activities of daily living. Many patients had dementia and communicating with them allowed me to
This reflective report is going to demonstrate an outline of our group dynamics leading up to and during the presentation. The purpose of this is to learn from the experience so that any other future group presentations will be improved. I will also give my opinion to what I have learnt in regards to presenting and overall my ability to work in a team.
The aim of the reflective essay is to highlight my own personal development skills that I have developed during first semester of my module. However, in this report I will make sure my learning ability phase and what this module has allowed me to work and understand in improving my personal skills and purpose. My major aim is to develop and assess an in depth range of my personal traits as a student in order to endorse my future development plan.
Reflection helps one to improve especially when they can draw lessons from the positive and negative experiences of the past. It is an active process that enables individuals to understand how historical, social, cultural, as well as personal experiences contribute to how we study or learn. In any aspect of life, reflection can be applied to help individuals focus their efforts in getting the most out of different situations, and, therefore, improving self-performance and becoming lifelong learners.