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How do you reflect on your own work practices?

How do you reflect on your own work practices?

A 3-Step Process To Improve With Self-Reflection

  1. Reflect on your experience. Think about what you did, thought, and felt at the time. •
  2. Reflect on your learning. Analyze your experience and compare to the models or principles that you want to follow. •
  3. Apply to your practice. Apply your learning to your practice.

What reflective practices can you use in the workplace?

1) Quietly thinking over things on your own. 2) Discussing your experiences with another person. 3) Writing about your experiences. Writing about your experiences can be a very effective method as it enables you to keep your reflections and to track your progress.

What is self reflection on your practice?

Self reflection is like looking into a mirror and describing what you see. It is a way of assessing yourself, your ways of working and how you study. To put it simply ‘reflection’ means to think about something.

What are the different types of reflective practice?

Types of reflection

  • Reflection-in-action and Reflection-on-action. Two main types of reflection are often referred to – reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action.
  • Reflection-in-action. This is the reflection that takes place whilst you are involved in the situation, often a patient interaction.
  • Reflection-on-action.

Why is it important to reflect on your own work practices?

Ultimately, reflective practice enables a worker to learn from what happened to develop and improve their future practice. Reflective practice enables us to achieve a better awareness of ourselves, our knowledge and understanding, our skills and competencies, and workplace practices in general.

What is reflective practice in support work?

Reflective practice. Reflective practice is defined as ‘the capacity to reflect on action so as to engage in a process of continuous learning’. What this means is that you should think about your work, particularly when new situations arise, and see what you can learn.

How do you self reflect on yourself?

All you need to do is ask yourself some questions. Ask yourself questions about yourself. Write down the questions, then write down your answers to the questions. Ask yourself about your past, present, and future, and compose answers to the questions that are positive, insightful, and motivating to you.

What are the four reflective practice models?

Based on theories about how people learn, this model centres on the concept of developing understanding through actual experiences and contains four key stages:

  • Concrete experience.
  • Reflective observation.
  • Abstract conceptualization.
  • Active experimentation.

How is reflective practice used in the workplace?

Reflective practice can be used to continuously improve not only your own practice but the practice of your service as a whole. By sharing the insights that you and others have gained from your own reflective practices you can work together to change the way you work for the better.

Why is it important to reflect on your work?

By sharing the insights that you and others have gained from your own reflective practices you can work together to change the way you work for the better. And, as everybody improves their work, by using reflective practice, the service of the entire organisation improves.

What’s the best way to practice self reflection?

By scheduling a specific time for self-reflection, you are holding yourself accountable for practising this very important skill. Starting with a realistic goal is the best way to give this new habit an easy start to grow stronger as you make progress.

What happens when you reflect on an activity?

When reflecting on an activity, we ask ourselves why something is not working particularly well and how we can improve it or look at a task we have performed and ask ourselves how it went and what we do differently if we did it again. Essentially, it is a thinking exercise that can be used to develop ourselves and make our work practices better.