Reflective Reflection

Within this essay I will be concentrating on explaining how an individual can implement reflection in their learning experiences. Applying skills of reflection to a particular learning experience such as induction week will be the main focus of this essay as it will convey the importance of reflecting upon the experience of working with other students.

Ian-Bradley Tancred This essay analyses and describes what reflection is and how it supports your personal and professional learning. It elaborates upon how and why recognizing your strengths and weaknesses are important and how they can enhance lifelong learning. It describes what arguments and assertions are, what the differences are between them and which one is better.

Reflection is a major factor in "developing self-awareness" to improve services provided to everyone around me, this is to develop my own understanding in realising the good and bad made previously. Moving forward with a better understanding, as well as rectifying the mistake whilst recognizing the good points, (Horton-Deutsch and Sherwood, 2008).

I do not recall learning about reflective practice in my undergraduate studies. Reflective practice according to Barbour (2013), “is the cyclic process of internally examining and exploring an issue of concern, triggered by an experience, which creates and clarifies meaning in terms of self, existing knowledge, and experience; resulting in a changed conceptual perceptive and practice” (p. 7). According to Barbour (2013), reflective process has many positive outcomes to help guide the nurse to become an expert nurse that can make on the spot decisions that do not interrupt patient care. I feel that reflective practice would have been beneficial to help guide me from a student nurse to a practicing nurse with critical thinking skills.

This semester I learned a lot about writing in English 151. It has been a roller coaster ride with these essays for me this semester. I learned step by step how to write a good essay and how to have your readers be engaged in what you’re trying to tell them. Each essay I did has taught me something valuable I can take to the next level of English. I feel as if as the semester went by I did not take my writing that seriously and that reflected in my grades I received in each essay. It made me a better student and writer and it will reflect next semester. In this essay, I will reflect on what I learned throughout this semester that you should apply in your writing when you begin English 151.

The purpose of this assignment is to discuss the contribution of reflective practice for clinical nursing. Reflection has been defined as a way for individuals to “capture their experience, think about it, mull it over and evaluate” (Boud et al 1985: 19)

For the last six weeks in both mental and acute setting, I have reflected on events that I had met in each week. Now, I am going to identify essential personal learning outcomes from those events and will include personal awareness of strengths and weaknesses. Among the different models of reflection, I will use the Gibbs model of reflection which entails six stages such as description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, action plan.

As we begin to wrap up this semester, I reflect on all the learning and achievements I have obtained thus far in the program. Throughout this semester, my communication and relational capacity has grown, driving me to break out of my comfort shell. At the beginning of this year I had wrote a letter to myself, outlining three goals that I wanted to achieve. The three goals were: work with a palliative client, become more assertive, and to integrate family care into my practice. I began the semester off in acute care, on the medical floor. During the second part of the semester, I was assigned to be in the first group of students to start the Trail Outreach Nursing. My new placement has created a new goal of increasing my communication

I begin each skill lesson with an assessment of some kind. I prefer that these assessment NOT be a multiple choice format but rather an open ended assessment that allows for student choice in presentation of their understanding. Once I understand where my students are performing on the skill, I design research based lessons that address the individual needs of both my struggling students as well as those that may be approaching or met mastery of the concepts. Of course not all lessons can address all learners and student needs vary greatly. I will also work one-on-one with students outside of the normal classroom structure to ensure that each student who needs my time receives it. I formatively assess students along the way and modify instruction

Not only did I learn about the history of our college but the people that helped build it. Students of the past tell the story of our future. How different generations impacted the decisions that were made

An 86-year-old patient was admitted to hospital for right fracture neck of femur secondary to fall.

The experience that I would like to reflect on this paper is that of Mr. Gregoris’ class participation in “witness talks”. We were each tasked in both the writing and the communication of our differing faith walks to the whole class. The objective of the activity was for each student to make their full introduction into the class, as well as open up about experiences and deep physiological challenges that they may have encountered in their lifetime. The ambience of the room during the witness talks is an interesting talking point, the room was dim, bordering on completely dark, however still had a quite calming feeling attached to it, reminiscent of being at home during a thunderstorm reading a good book. I went first and I wasn’t mentally prepared to go on the day, but nobody else was willing to go, so I decided to take the plunge. Subsequently following my actual talk, we also had to play music, to help us reflect on what we just heard, I didn’t have a song prepared or anything, so I just picked a random one, ironically it just had to be a song I was looking for, for a long time. Others went and shared their experiences and feelings, though I will not forget a few stories and I may never be able to unhear some others. At the end of the day, this was a congress of people connecting on an intimate level greater than what I would see from my own family. I saw the witness talks as a celebration of individuality and difference, especially in a world that sees humans as digits, stats and worst of all money. If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played? (1 Corinthians 14:7).

In this lesson there are multiple process skills, knowledge, and skills to be included and emphasized. When doing this lesson, I would be addressing the process skills of communicating, measuring, comparing, contrasting, organizing, and analyzing. Student would partake in communicating during the class discussion about frog calls, when the groups discuss and create their frog calls, and when sharing with the class the frog calls they made. Measuring would take place during the extension game whenever the biologist times and records the time it took the female frog to find a mate. Comparing and contrasting would be done in the “Guess who makes that sound?” game. The students will be comparing and contrasting the frog sounds to their prior knowledge and to each of the frog sounds. They do this to try and figure out what animals is making that sound. Organizing will be addressed through the KLEWS chart. The students will organize their ideas, wonderings, evidence, and the like into the KLEWS chart. Also, the students will organize their data gathered in the extension game. Lastly, students analyze the observations they made during the entire lesson and that information was written in the Learning, Evidence, and Scientific Principle columns of the KLEWS chart. All of these process skills I will emphasize and guide the students through. Skills addressed in this lesson were communicating skills and engineering skills. Students need to know how to communicate in order to

Reflection is some kind of thinking and of learning. By reflecting we learn from an experience which takes place in our everyday life. Sometimes reflection will show your mistakes, fears, your weak and strong points and also your prosperity. Proper definition of Reflection is that it is an active process of observing one’s own experience so to look closer at it. Before one learns from an experience, the individual will first make sense out of an experience so to have a meaning of the experience. There are two types of Reflection which are the Reflection learning and reflection practice. Reflection learning engages in reflection for the simple and clear goal of making learning out of the process of learning. The reflective practice

This assignment is a reflection on what I have learned over the past ten weeks, as I have almost completed my first semester and I have grown and learnt more than I thought possible. I will outline my area of expertise and how they have changed over this short period. I will discuss my current knowledge of the online environment and how it has advanced. I will demonstrate how being introduced to certain principles have given me a clear understanding of particular unit goals I would like to achieve, which will pave the pathway in completing my course goals. I will reflect on lessons learnt throughout this unit, and how they will help advance me throughout my degree and assist me in becoming a primary teacher.