Importance Of Reflective Practice

The final stage of reflection is change, how I see myself, how I see others and my views and opinions. 4.2 – Reflective practice is a good way to analyse yourself as an individual; this can help improve your own working practices. Sometimes when you reflect on yourself it makes you look at your barriers and sometimes peoples struggle can be confidence, dealing with situations and can also help you see where you think you could improve yourself in regards to maybe training etc. I know one of my own barriers is having to address issues with staff when doing supervisions that I know staff will feel annoyed/upset about and sometimes need to seek advice from other managers and once the supervision has taken place I will reflect on the supervision and how it went, the things I said, the response from staff, whether I could of spoken about a situation in a different way/content etc then reflect on this so to use the experience and advice given next time I have the same situation too

Among the various reflective models, there are both pros and cons to each concerning the depth in which a clinician reflects from an experience. It is critical to note that in my opinion these reflective models would not fit every situation in life or within a clinical setting. Therefore, every situation should be analyzed to see which model will produce the best reflective approach. Obviously for more in depth situations, those models that superficially reflect would not be an optimal choice. After researching the cyclic models, I have selected the Atkins and Murphy model to utilize the concepts of reflective practice. Through this assignment I will use case study two so I can effectively utilize the concepts of reflective practice through the Atkins and Murphy model.

Reflection means if when you are teaching and you notice something wrong you change it straight away, or for the next time. Practitioners should always be self critical of past lessons and picking out on not only the good parts, but also parts of a lesson that didn’t go so well. For example in order for the practitioners to improve in their practice they could prepare a reflective journal, this would help them by reflecting back on what they did in the perivious lesson and if an activity didn’t go so well the practitioner could think of different strategies of improving the activity or planning a different activity, but on the similar topic and also providing different recourses in order to improve the activity. Also practitioners and staff members should not assume that their work place will automatically inform them about new developments, changes and updates which affect their work, practitioners must be prepared to be active in maintaining their own knowledge base and to ensure that their practice is in line with current thinking and new theories. Practitioners could this by incorporating an awareness of the needs to update their knowledge constantly into all of their work and activities by using resources such as the internet, journals, and libraries or other professional development, e.g. training, and to check their awareness of new developments in their work and to work with other professionals e.g. there

Ans. Reflective practice is a way of learning from own experience to improve the way we work.

2.1. Explain the Importance of reflective practice in continuously improving the quality of service provided.

This will also give staff the opportunity to reflect and assess their own performance, ensuring that skills are continually developed. Reflective Practice is highly relevant and helpful towards Continuous Professional Development (CPD).

2. Explain the importance of reflective practice in continuously improving the quality of service provided (1.1.2)

Reflective practice can be used by workers to enhance their performance and practice at work.

Reflective Practice Piece Description: As a nutritionist there are certain standards of ethics, conduct and performance we have to follow in order to deliver the best service to a client. These standards are more of guidance to how you should behave as a nutritionist. These standards will help you as a registered nutritionists or associate nutritionist. Feelings: No matter what type of employment you go into as a nutritionist the same guidelines apply.

This assignment will critically reflect on experiential learning episodes with further assistance from two critical friends, one who is a 20 year old male based in the outdoor sector and another from outside the outdoor sector who is 29years old also male but based outside the outdoor sector as his occupation is a university lecturer and corporal in the British army. it must be recognised that there may be a possibility that critical friends may be biased.

Professional knowledge is no longer viewed as just consisting of a standardised, explicit and fixed knowledge base. It is now seen as knowledge which exists in use, is ethical in its use and is changed by experience.

A review of the literature to critically explore the value and purpose of reflective practice.

Reflective practice, in this context, is not about just looking at myself in a mirror and accepting what I see blindly, without any question or evaluation. Rather, it is about looking at what I have learned and how I can utilise that learning in my teaching practice.

Research has been increasingly done on learning and self-reflect and its effectiveness, one of the first researchers' john Dewey stated, 'we do not learn from experience... We learn from reflecting on experience.' John believed that deep learning comes from array of experience, reflection, abstraction, and active testing. James Zull's (2002) fascinating book on the biology of learning, points out evidence that the learning cycles arises naturally from the structure of the brain. Donald Schon also amongst the first to write about reflective practice with his exploration of experience, interaction and reflection with his book 'the reflective practitioner' in 1983, Donald defines reflective practice as the practice by which professionals become receptive of the implicit knowledge base and learn from their experience. 'The practitioners allowed Donald to experience puzzlement, surprise or confusion in a situation which is found uncertain or unique. Self-reflection is like considering a mirror and describing what you see. The term refers to an activity or process in which an experience is recalled, considered and evaluated to gain insight on oneself, ones valued or knowledge gained. The ability to reflect on experience encourages insight and complex learning. In contrast, self-reflection is a process used to study one's own performance in order to improve it. In order for one to succeed, it is vital to have knowledge of what each strengths and weaknesses are for self-development

The concept of this reflective journal has led to my self-examination and reflecting back on the journey of exploring the different methods used in conducting business research. While doing so, I have brought myself into a realm in which the role of values in the research process becomes a topic of self-examination and issues that revolve around such concerns do indeed effect my development in many areas on a personal, academic, and professional level.