Reference no: EM133068070 , Length: word count:2000
Reflection Assessment
What and why?
- You are required to submit an individual reflection.
- This assessment is designed as a process of self-reflection to encourage your personal development and self-learning activities.
- This reflection should take into consideration your personal strengths and weaknesses, as well as informal and formal tutor feedback.
- 2000 words - Minimum 6 Academic references
Reflective writing
Description (keep it short!)
• What happened?
• Give a concise, factual account
• Provide relevant details, aims of exercise and what actually happened. Aim to put the reader in the picture.
Feelings
• Identify and examine reactions, feelings and thoughts at the time. It is important, although often difficult, to be honest about these.
• How can you explain your feelings? What was affecting them? Did they change? Why? How did they affect your actions and thoughts at the time?
• Looking back, has your understanding of your feelings changed your view of the situation?
Evaluation
• Look at the judgements you made at the time about how things were going.
• What was positive? Negative? What made you think this?
• Try to stand back from the experience to gain a sense of how it went.
• What made you think something was good or bad?
• Examine your own judgements and what contributed to them. How do you feel about them now?
Analysis
• In this section of the reflection, you need to examine the experience in depth, and start to theorise about key aspects. Try to identify an overarching issue, or key aspect of the experience that affected it profoundly, which needs to be examined for the future. For example, an aspect of communication or time management might have played a central part in the outcome.
• How was it flawed this time? In what way? Why? How should it work in this situation?
• What ideas or theories are you aware of which look at this? Does theory about this aspect help you make more sense of what happened?
• Could you use theory to improve this aspect in the future? In this section, you need to fully examine and make sense of factors affecting the situation, and exploring ways to change and develop these.
Conclusion
Sum up the key things learned through the reflective process, the main factors affecting the situation, and what to improve. This section might include naming specific skills that need developing, or aspects of organisation to improve. You might identify new knowledge or training which is needed.
Action plan
This should be a practical section:
• What could you do differently next time and how could you prepare for this?
• What areas need developing or planning? What resources do you need, and where would they be found?
• What steps will be taken first?
Attachment:- Reflection_Assessment.rar