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Unread 06-19-2009, 04:10 PM
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My general thoughts on reflection - you'll have to see if its applicable to your assignments!!

Reflection is an essential part of effective practice. By reflecting on what we have done during activities, the words we have used and how we dealt with a crisis etc, we should be able to improve our responses and the outcome next time.

After an group activity with the children, try to reflect what went well, which areas you hadn't planned fully, how the activity developed or deviated from your original plan (those dastardly kids often go in a different direction to the one we were thinking about! ), whether the resources were appropriate...etc etc

Lessons/ activities can always be improved - it is by no means a failure on your part to admit that there could be improvements. It is a sign of an excellent practitioner if you can continuously reflect and improve.

You may also need to look at the setting's policies when reflecting. :reading: For example, if there is some sort of emergency - after the event, reflect on what happened and whether you followed policies and procedures. If not, how could you improve the policy or make it clearer so that policy is followed in the future?

Hope that gets you started.
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