The Competences
Reflecting On Your Practice
Reflecting on your practice helps you to
Thinking about your experiences
What important things about my practice have I learned this week!
This should take about five minutes to note down what you’ve learned from your practice this week.
Seeing situations from different perspectives
Making sure that you can learn from your experience is an important part of being a reflective worker. This means thinking about your own experience in a structured way is important to making sure your practice is effective. It’s also important for identifying ways in which you can improve.
Key questions you can discuss with others
- understand what you already know
- identify what you need to know in practical terms so that you can improve your knowledge (e.g. working with a community group you might need to find out more about constitutions so that you can help them to develop their own, designing a community based adult learning programme with learners, raising awareness with young people of drug misuse)
- making sense of what happened during a piece of work and learning from the experience
- identify your areas for further learning
Thinking about your experiences
What important things about my practice have I learned this week!
This should take about five minutes to note down what you’ve learned from your practice this week.
- Thinking back on what you have done this week when did you feel really involved in what was happening?
- During the week not really involved in what was happening?
- Can you think of something someone did this week that you found encouraging and helpful?
- Can you think of something someone did this week that you found confusing?
- What about your practice this week surprised you most (e.g. your reaction to something that happened, something someone did, something that you thought worked really well/ was much more difficult than you anticipated?)
Seeing situations from different perspectives
Making sure that you can learn from your experience is an important part of being a reflective worker. This means thinking about your own experience in a structured way is important to making sure your practice is effective. It’s also important for identifying ways in which you can improve.
Key questions you can discuss with others
- What you felt worked well
- What you felt could have been done differently
- What other things were happening during the activity and how these might have affected things
- Something that surprised you
- Something that confused you
Last modified: Monday, 31 August 2015, 1:32 PM