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.

It was April 25, 2008. With just one minute until the school day ended, countless students were watching the clock, their eyes following the second hand. As the final bell rang at 3:20 p.m., the screams from over 60 teens reverberated throughout the high school. . . . Over

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)

I’m always caring and empathetic. I’m caring in that I always try to teach my students with kindness in mind. I’m also kind in the way Geneva Gay describes kindness. I’m kind in that I “care so much” (Rychly and Graves, Pg 45, 2012) that I want my students to succeed. I hold my students to a high expectation (Rychy and Graves, 2012). I don’t believe in good learners or bad learners. I know all my students can learn and succeed. So,I expect all my students to meet the learning objectives and milestones. I don’t except excuses for failure. However, I am empathetic in that I can put myself in my student’s shoes and understand what they are going through (Rychly and Graves, 2012). I understand that my students may expect hardships. I try to work with those hardships and challenges. I know that each student has unique experiences that affect their learning. Thus, I empower my

“Everybody, let’s gather around and take a photograph before going off to the graduation”, my aunt announced. My family was really proud because Johan was the oldest in our generation. He set the example for me and my cousins. My brother was graduating from high school as a Valedictorian. His class ended up with 3 top students.

It’s not about letting the student sneak by in order to mask their educational hardships, but instead, teachers realizing that both the emotional and mental aspect of learning is one, and not separate. Teachers must realize that their attitudes can break, instead of make a student, if they’re not careful. When emotional abuse within a classroom, or even the home, isn’t dealt with, the negative effects can last far into adulthood. Teachers must do all that they can to make a learning environment, inviting, engaging, yet

Lugging my heavy backpack seemed like unnecessary torture, every afternoon trekking the hallway that lead to my Grandma’s classroom which was situated on what seemed like the longest hall in the school, and her room last one on the left. This hall was the only one that was peaceful at this time of day as there were few children and the principal’s office was there as well. As I passed the door of the classroom that held the children sentenced to detention, I waved to Ms. Faulkner, the last door before my destination. When I reached my grandma’s room as always the door was sprung open, nonetheless I still knocked before entering. She sat at a round, wooden table in the front of the room in front of the whiteboard, where she thought her students, “Hi,” I sung, as I waved to everyone. Her four students were congregated in the back of the room at a table with her assistant at the head. Beaming, I approached my Grandma and gave her a tight embrace. Her hugs always warm me to my core, from the vibrations of love emanating from her soul. Then, I sat in a low, uncomfortable plastic chair across from my

In the closing of my senior year, I experienced an emotion that I had not expected. I began to feel overwhelmed by disappointment. The last year of high school was meant to be memorable; unforgettable because of the excitement, not the disheartening moments. And yet, when surveying the previous months, those times were all I could remember.

For spring break, Kristina wanted to go home and visit her widowed mother and younger brother for her twenty-first birthday. Her father, Harry, died of cancer, the same day of her high school graduation. While Kristina read her valedictorian speech aloud the the crowd, her mother and brother were in the hospital. While her grandparents came to support her and her achievements, she still felt discontent with the circumstances. “I’ll be home tomorrow,” she told her brother, Joe, over the phone. “Don’t tell mom, I want it to be a secret.”

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

My reflection regarding the previous classes, I found them to be very educational and engaging which I think helped me to broaden and deepen my understanding of program planning. Working on the Off-campus Teaching Reflection and the Observation and Report on an Adult Learning Class or Center assignments provided me a unique opportunity to apply what I have learned from this course into the real world. In these classes, we covered the following topics: Designing Instruction, Devising Transfer of Learning Plans, Access and Participation, Formulating Program Evaluation Plans, Assessment and Evaluation, Selecting Formats, Scheduling, and Staffing Programs.