Framing The Experience Reflection

making Practice-Based Learning work Reflection on PRACTICE A resource commissioned by the Making Practice Based Learning Work project, an educational development project funded through FDTL Phase 4 Project Number 174/02 and produced by staff from the University of Ulster. www.practicebasedlearning.org Author Patricia McClure School of Health Sciences, University of Ulster www.practicebasedlearning.org contents Reflection on Practice 02

Using Gibbs’ (1998) model of reflection, updated by Bulman (2012), reflect on a challenging experience from your practice and analyse the strategies used to manage it.

I find reflective practice useful both personally and professionally. When I step back, observe and reflect helps me become more self-aware and understand my own and others’ emotions. I would be able to see things from different angles. When working with families, it will help to learn how to empathize and develop a better understanding of other people. I learn to better communicate through a better understanding of behavior which will help me build better relationships with families. To support children's continuous learning, I begin to ponder and question about children’s engagement in learning and what/how we can do to improve our teaching methods to meet the needs of all the children. In the see/think/wonder thinking has changed the way

Internships are a big part of integrating into a steady job and helps a young adults in seeing a componey and its inner workings. Except many students, such as I, had wondered how hard it is to apply and to get accepted into an internship. A college senior was with McCarthy to lecture about her story of accepting an internship with this componey. It was a simple

Through this internship, I wish to soak up as much knowledge as I can about the people, the culture, the work I’m doing, and myself. If I am chosen to do this work, I think I will learn a lot about who I am along the way as I work to make the largest impact that I can. It is extremely important that this internship is mutually beneficial to me; meaning I hope I can give as much to the Center as I’m sure I will get from it. This entails that I am both a helpful hand and a receiver of practical knowledge and experience for my future. This kind of work is not far from the work I hope to do for a career, so anything I can learn will be helpful in my future.

Internship is a period of work experience offered by an employer to give people (usually college students and graduates) exposure to the working environment. It gives them an opportunity to get first-hand experience. The growing need for practical learning led to the emergence of internship. It helps to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience. Internships in any form- paid, unpaid or co-operative learning has now become a standard practice for college students. It has

“Death starts from the feet.” She was an 86 year old Guinean woman who was accompanied by her son to the family medicine clinic. Her son explained to us that his mother was very anxious and feared that she would be dying soon because of the pains that she was having in her lower extremities. In their culture, there is a saying that “death starts from the feet,” and because she was experiencing these pains she was convinced that her time was near. After obtaining a more detailed history and completing her physical examination, I discovered that the patient had bilateral crepitus in her knees as well as joint swellings, indicating an osteoarthritic presentation. What my patient feared to be symptoms of death were instead osteoarthritic pain! This patient encounter was an eye opening experience on just how impactful our backgrounds can be in medicine. By improving our cultural competences we improve the quality of healthcare. As a family physician I hope to make a difference in the lives and communities of patients from various backgrounds.

Human Resource Specialist would call the final applicant and ask if they would like to take the offer. Once offer is accepted HR Specialist would send emails to the candidates not selected letting them know we selected a person with better qualifications.

I am an experienced professional with focus on process management, financial analysis and controlling. My experience includes both operational and consulting engagements.

After reading the models of reflections I tend to lean on Schon, the reason being that his concept focuses on to use reflection as a tool to help go back to experiences whether productive experience or not. This gives the learner the ability to explore their understanding of their actions and experience, and the impact of these on themselves and others. Incorporating this into my reflective process will give me the opportunity to adopt a structured approach that models reflective practices whether successful or not to learn from my mistakes to become better in my area of practice. Modeling this if I were to ever be in the classroom will help open various ways for me to provide a framework to my students to help them apply and transfer skills

This piece is going to explore the principles of reflective practice and highlight/explore the benefits and challenges that one encounters when it comes to reflection in everyday clinical practice. Models of reflection will also be incorporated to support critical reflective practice as a speech and language therapist. Reflective practise is crucial as a speech and language therapist as it creates critical thinking and limits the chances of future problems reoccurring. It also creates a cycle of continuous learning in everyday practice. Bolton (2014) refers reflective practice as a state of the mind and a repetitive attitude behaviour to work.

In the first article, the author talks about how for many young adults they are almost all afraid to become active members in their community and it is up to the adults to give them a little nudge in the right direction. So they had the idea to make community service a requirement for the public schools. Showing students the different levels of needs of people in their community can help them thrive into great adults someday.

As pointed out before, RP is a trending topic nowadays but also confusing. The ambiguity and the overlapping use of terms complicate the understanding (hebert, tsingos 2014). Boud 1985 p.8 points out that it is not a single facet term but a generic/umbrella one that involves a range of ideas and activities.

There is no single right approach to the complex practices of teaching and learning (Loughran, 1996). It is commonly accepted that no educational program is totally applicable or can prepare teachers. Consequently, teachers need reflective practice to efficiently cope with the fast world changes (Grant & Zeichner, 1984). Adopting Socrates’ famous saying that “the unexamined life isn’t worth living”, I do believe in reflective practice as being essential to effective teaching and learning. In my opinion, active reflective practitioners are those who are intellectually curious and emotionally enthusiastic about improving their work using moral, ethical, and responsible actions based on critical analysis and evaluation of experiences as a way

For this exercise, I assessed an experience that occurred almost twenty years ago. I do not believe that this assessment was beneficial in reframing my narrative of the experience. Until I completed the readings, I speculated that this may be in part due to the time that has elapsed since that incident. However, research indicates that there is no relationship between age of participants or time since the event (Tedeschi and Calhoun, 1996). With that said, I still don’t believe the assessment was beneficial in reframing my experience. I did find the assessment questions a reminder of how far I have come since the incident. Shortly, after the incident I saw the positive the emerged. This assessment could be a valuable tool to help others find