Step 1 Step 2
Record the Explain how your understanding
experience/situation/ developed during and after the
problem/case experience, etc.
study/learning
experience. In this section, you are being
asked to reflect on your
Describe the information, how it added to you
selected own understanding and how it
experience, etc ., in may have shifted or developed
some way by exploring the experience.
Explain it as Ask yourself:
clearly and as
directly as you can. - How did I analyse the situation,
case or incident, etc:
Ask yourself:
- What procedure did I use?
-What situation,
theory, approach,
- Was it successful? Why? Why
case or incident did
not?
I choose to
analyse?
- Was my analysis
- How well did I comprehensive?
define the
situation, theory, - Can I demonstrate this?
approach, case or
incident? - Can I justify my analysis?
- -
Did I ignore - How did doing this analysis
anything? What? impact on my learning/
Why? knowledge / understandings?
- Did this directly - Will this affect the way I
relate to the approach learning in the future?
type of analysis
carried out? - Does this suggest changes I
- In what way? need to make to the way I learn?
(NB you can use your professions
standards, guidelines, lectures and
readings to help with the ideas
involved in thinking, reasoning and
understanding the experience/
situation/problem/ case
study/learning experience)
Step 3 Step 4
Demonstrate how the experience contributed to your understanding of the Demonstrate your progress in
achieving the student outcomes as a
1. role of an effective professional in your area of expertise result of engaging in this learning
experience.
and
Ask yourself:
2. what makes an effective professional in your area of expertise
- What did I learn about the topic,
In this section it is important to consider the following: myself, my learning style, and
learning itself?
Identify the role of an effective professional in your area of expertise
- How do I rate my approach to the
Explain how your own ideological standpoint have changed or developed in situation, theory, approach, case or
regard to the qualities of an effective professional by participating in and incident, study, research and
reflecting on the experience/ situation/problem/ case study/learning problem solving?
experience by considering the following:
- Was it comprehensive? Why? Why
- Can I take and apply as a whole or in part what I have learned to other not?
areas of learning or other situations?
What contributed to this?
- Do I need to make changes to the way I think/react/practice my
profession? - What can I apply to future
learning situations?
- Did the experience/ situation/problem/ case study/learning experience
exhibit or highlight an effective professional setting - What do I need to / can I improve?
To examine these questions you might like to consider: - How has this learning experience
impacted on your achieving (or not)
The qualities of an effective professional and considering (or not) the
outcomes for the subject?
- The impact pedagogical principles have on an effective
professional - Can you make any connections
between the reflective task and key
Were there any light bulb moments in this learning experience that learning and teaching concepts for
will influence your own professional strategies and emerging the subject?
pedagogy?
- What are the take home messages
you have uncovered by participating
in this experience in relation to your
(NB you can use lectures, Professional standards and readings to help you profession?
identify effective professionals)
- How has your reflection shaped
your own experiences, expectations
and understanding of working as a
professional in your field of
expertise?