Reflection On Reflective Communication

For this reflection paper, I was asked to take a personality test and how these traits are useful when working together with colleagues and clients on an intervention plan during a team meeting. Over the years, I have taken different types of personality tests in my teaching career from a color personality test to what type of teaching style I prefer to use in a classroom learning environment. As a result, I understand the importance of how personality traits identify one’s strengths and challenges for growth in daily interaction with people and the world. The personality type results for me were for the most part accurate in that they classified me as an introvert, intuitive, feeling, and perceiving kind. This personality is known as the “The Mediator” and their strengths in the work place are that they “work hard to ensure that every voice and perspective is heard” (“Mediator strengths and weaknesses, n.d.). However, the personality challenges for this type are a “dislike for dealing with data and taken things personally” (Mediator strengths and weakneses, n.d.). My personality strengths of supporting equity and contribution in a team meeting would effectively focus on a client centered practice and a

On an occasion at work I was aware of a staff member communicating very negatively, for example sighing and tutting and general negativity. Supervision was due so it was brought into meeting that last had concerned had noticed a change in the person’s general attitude, I asked if there was a specific reason and was told there was not. Although they agreed that they were being negative. We discussed the workload and it was decided it was not that. It was mentioned by the staff member that they were feeling a little unsure of how to deal with a service user who had dementia and was unpredictable and seemed to have taken a dislike to the staff member .We discussed at length the way forward and I arranged for some

making Practice-Based Learning work Reflection on PRACTICE A resource commissioned by the Making Practice Based Learning Work project, an educational development project funded through FDTL Phase 4 Project Number 174/02 and produced by staff from the University of Ulster. www.practicebasedlearning.org Author Patricia McClure School of Health Sciences, University of Ulster www.practicebasedlearning.org contents Reflection on Practice 02

Starting my journey through college again was a big decision for me. Being a single parent of two children, a homeowner, and holding a stressful, full-time job left me with little free time. However, I longed to reinvent myself and find a way to advance my career. Meeting personal goals to further my education outweighed the guilt I felt, as my children were not young any longer. I decided to make advancing my education a top priority. Discovering that when I have a goal my follow through is definite, but it is not always easy. What I overlooked as I headed down the path to fulfill my educational goal, was that stress has real health consequences.

Intern met with resident K. Brown for the purpose of addressing her personal concerns and speaking with her about her community service hours. Kiara informed me that she completed her community service hours for the previous week. Intern asked her to verify the days she completes CS hours, and she stated Sundays and Wednesdays. Resident did express her frustrations by saying that she used to mess up with her CS hours, but she is really trying to do better. Intern advised her that another resident completes hers during that time, so she will have to do CS hours on Mondays and Thursdays or Mondays and Fridays. Intern also explained to her the importance of doing CS hours. It was explained that not only is this a requirement of the program,

There I was sitting in my communications class, more tired than ever before, until Leila Schmidt announced to the class to wake up. At that point, I knew she was talking about me, ever since then I started participating more and been more awake in class. This class helped me improve my public speaking apprehension, participation in class and my nonverbal deliveries. These improvements are very similar to my CIP because I mainly stated how I want to improve on my presenting skills and how I present it. I also wanted to improve on my participation in class. As the semester went on I noticed improvements in all these categories by the way I presented and my grade got better.

Throughout my first semester at the University of Portland, the quality of my writing progressively increased. My English 112 class contained many different activities that contributed to helping me become a better writer. Informal writing assignments, class discussions, peer review sessions and the writing center were just some of the resources available to me that helped progress not only my writing ability but my overall reading & writing analysis skills as well. Not only did I make new relationships with my peers, these relationships also helped me understand the content more thoroughly, work out any problems that I had with my ideas, and encourage me to be more social among my fellow classmates as well. Nearing the end of this

Studying communications this semester I learned it is more than public speaking, but is focused on how to effectively share opinions or information to broaden ones perspective. In my communications class we focused on listening skills, interpersonal communications, and small group communication. Listening skills were developed when we did speech critiques on our group members. In addition, we listened to other speeches or Netflix shows to analyze communication methods. In class, we examined what makes up interpersonal communications including nonverbal skills, verbal skills, and development of ideas using evidence. In addition, we worked on own skills by writing and delivering 3 speeches on a topic of our choice that we are passionate about. This helped me define how I communicate my own opinions to others. Small group communication was matured when we worked on a group speech on how to improve articulation skills. I had to work on speaking up and

On August 31, 2017 I spoke with Officer Burns via telephone in regards to his pending discipline and some concerns that had been brought to my attention by fellow officers and supervisors. The first portion of the conversation centered on his pending discipline and determining a date that would be acceptable for him to attend a pre-disciplinary hearing with Captain Berger to discuss the alleged violations. During this conversation I explained the severity of the violations and that based upon the number of violations within the past twelve months he will subject to the progressive discipline policy.

After reading the models of reflections I tend to lean on Schon, the reason being that his concept focuses on to use reflection as a tool to help go back to experiences whether productive experience or not. This gives the learner the ability to explore their understanding of their actions and experience, and the impact of these on themselves and others. Incorporating this into my reflective process will give me the opportunity to adopt a structured approach that models reflective practices whether successful or not to learn from my mistakes to become better in my area of practice. Modeling this if I were to ever be in the classroom will help open various ways for me to provide a framework to my students to help them apply and transfer skills

The topic for this week’s session was about SMART Goals primarily and also more about colors regarding shapes and sizes. The individual goals I have for my student are to say the color “red” verbally and to group all the red toys together that she can find & to find more ways to develop her gross motor skills involving the materials and games she gravitated towards last week in the gymnasium. One of the SMART goals I developed for my student during my group’s discussion were to increase the number of words she says throughout the session. These words can involve colors, “please” and “thank you,” “mommy,” “play,” “Tasha,” etc.

This self-reflection will incorporate the 4R’s model of reflective thinking in order for my reflections to be properly structured. The overall group project was a good experience for me, and provided me a great opportunity to work with people from different cultures. Although these people were from different cultures, I knew each group member before this assignment and had worked with the majority of them previously. Therefore, I respected all the group member’s and the skills, strengths and weaknesses they brought to our group. Because of my established relationship with all members, I felt that I was able to be honest in my assessment of their work without being perceived as bossy or creating conflict. The aim for all of us was to do very well in this assignment, so our group established a clear idea of outcomes and quality of work.

Reflection is considered as a vital element of professional practice as it precedes to insight and then subsequent change in practice. The hypothesis of reflection is not new as it can be tracked as far back in the 5th century by the influential Greek philosopher, Socrates and to the 1930s primarily focusing on John Dewey’s work. Dewey is one of the founders of learning from experience. He theorised reflection as ‘active, persistent and careful consideration’ (Dewey, 1933) initiated by a specific situation which was opposing, perplexing or uncertain. One of its most common use today is coming up with a thought, an idea, or opinion made or an observation made as a result of concentration, suggesting in essence a way of thinking in which one looks back and meditate upon (Agnes, 2004).

In the past, I have given speeches, but never in the style of how we did it in this class. Previous speeches I have given have been read aloud directly from a paper I had written. I have never given a speech that required memorization or speaking based off of a key-word outline, so this experience was very new to me.

There is a significant difference between my perception of communication at the beginning of this course compared to now. Initially, I was aware communication was an important skill people needed to have, but I wasn’t fully aware of the depth of communication. I never realized there were such a variety of behaviors and characteristics that impacted the ability for people to communicate effectively. Once I started completing the self-assessments my perspective was broaden and I gained helpful insight into my own communication strengths and weaknesses. With each self-assessment I truly felt I was getting to know myself better.