Page 4 - A Guide to Reflective Practice

Following is what we recommend as a process for successful practice:
1. Maintain a minimum of one, detailed entry per week;
2. Ensure each entry provides sufficient detail to demonstrate the ability to document the learning process of Do, Reflect,
Conclude, and Apply, and
3. Ensure each entry addresses each of the key areas of the template provided:
a. What?;
b. Why?;
c. Reaction;
d. Learned; and
e. Goal Setting.
Reflective Writing
Reflective writing means you are making a link between your experience and the lessons learned; therefore, clarifying the relationship between theory and practice. It allows you to become aware of your own values and belief system and any assumptions you hold to support those.
Reflective thinking and writing are part of a larger process of reflective learning which means you become aware of:
§ how you learn,
§ how you might apply concepts to practice, § what you do well, and
§ what you need to improve upon
When learning new information, we try to fit it in with what we already know. At first, we may find this new information very unfamiliar or it may change our ways of thinking about something. This new information may be applied or tested in a work or assessment experience.
(www.griffith.edu.au Accessed November 2015) Experiences are made up of different learning activities; such as, discussions, working
and/or interacting with others, workplace tasks and practice, prescribed activities etc.
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