When reflective practice is developed within a setting it benefits by being able to identify strengths and weaknesses from each practitioner. By discovering which practitioners are stronger at doing certain things than other this will develop practice because, for example, if one practitioner has outstanding art and craft skills then practice will be more effective if they are the ones in charge of craft activities with the children or even planning wall displays for the children’s work. When practitioners in the setting develop their reflective practice they will review the planning cycle after activities to reflect on how successful it was and whilst reviewing the progress it will be clear if any practitioner may have any training needs that could help improve practice further. This also gives the practitioners the opportunity to increase their skills and develop professionally.…
4.2 Reflective practice is important in a number of ways.It can be used as a tool to help managers to guide and support staff.It develops self esteem,confidence.It improves a way to learn. Can also aid as a source of feedback. Identifies personal and professional strengths and areas to be improved.…
After reading “Notes form a Reflective Practitioner of Innovation,” select insights regarding a Superintendent's job. Post your summary on the Discussion Board.…
Reflective practice is essential in Early Years settings to be able to continually improve the quality of your own practice and in turn improve the overall quality of the setting. Reflection is important because it allows each practitioner to look back at personal experiences in the setting and assess what went well and what didn’t go so well. By gaining an understanding of these reflections, it will help to plan for success in the future and ensure that high standards are kept at all times. We all learn from our experiences, whether they are negative or positive they can help us to improve our own practice. To be a reflective practitioner, you need to be ready to question your own practice. This can easily…
Unit 332 – Engage in personal development in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings.…
Reflective practice is important because of you didn't reflect over the work you have done you would never be able to improve on what you have done. By reflecting you can look over work you have done and see what worked well and what didn't then try and improve it for the next time if needed.…
The importance of reflective practice is to review what you have done so that you can improve on it and change it to suit the needs better. Reflection allows the practitioner to learn about new things and learn from practice.…
Reflective practise isn't about slating your practise and being harsh on yourself, its about identifying ways in which you can make things better for yourself and for the children in your care. Its extremely important as a practitioner that you use the idea of reflective practise as “self evaluation is necessary to improve your own professional practise, develop your ability to reflect upon routines/activities and modify plans to meet the individual needs of the children and or young people with whom you work” ( Meggit, 2011:21)…
The term ‘reflective practice’ means thinking and evaluating your actions so that you are able to improve yours and the schools practices. By reflecting on your actions with the children or other work within the school you can see what worked well and what needs improving with the activity.…
1.1 Reflective practice is the ability to constantly monitor one's own performance in a given role and make adjustments where necessary. For me as carer, reflective practice is particularly important because no two cases will ever be the same and it is vitally important to remain reactive and reflective at all times.…
Reflective practice is important in as much that it enables me to review real life situations I have been in, how I dealt with them, how I felt and the outcome of how I acted towards others all these will enable me to improve personally and improve the service I provide.…
Reflective practice encourages individuals to question what, why and how we do things and what, why and how people we interact with also do things. It is a process that seeks to understand the underlying mechanisms and rationale behind behaviour. It encourages the individual to view their own activities and their outputs from different perspectives by seeking feedback from others. The purpose is to create greater awareness and understanding of the reasons for and impact of actions. It is a process of questioning assumptions, keeping an open mind and asking 'what if '?…
Reflective practice means to reflect on things that happen in everyday practice. By reflecting on things that happen, we can improve the care for the child by reviewing strategies to make them better, as they did not work before. This can then benefit the children as it can promote independence and performance of the young people.…
Teaching can be challenging and rewarding if you enjoy what you are doing, if you don’t enjoy what you teach then it can become boring, it soon rubs off on your learners and gives the impression of “If the tutor isn’t interested, then why should I be?” It can also be boring, but this is where the challenge begins to make it fun so that the learner understands what is being taught without loosing interest quickly.…
Reflective practice, in this context, is not about just looking at myself in a mirror and accepting what I see blindly, without any question or evaluation. Rather, it is about looking at what I have learned and how I can utilise that learning in my teaching practice.…