Understand Reflective Practice

Overview of reflective practice
Look through the resources provided and carry out further research of your own.

Consider the different models of reflection and share ideas with peers in the online communities.

Develop a deeper understanding of two reflective practice models
Research two different models of reflection in greater depth, you will go on to apply these to your practice in LA 3.

Discovering Reflective Practice

Justifying your choice of models

LA1 assessment guidance

Discussion

The first element of your assessment product should provide a brief overview of reflective practice
This should be 200-300 words or equivalent.

You should go on to demonstrate deeper understanding of two models

Identify and describe the two models you will use for LA2.

You should justify your choice giving reasons why you chose the two models to frame your exploration of reflective practice.

This should bring your total for this LA up to a maximum of  1000 words or equivalent.

Understand critical incidents

Explore the concept of critical incidents and how they can be identified and captured.

Read the resource provided and carry out your own research. To consolidate your learning, discuss potential critical incidents and the means that could be employed to capture them with your peers in the online communities.

What is a critical incident?  

LA 2 assessment guidance

For LA 2 you should demonstrate your understanding of critical incidents

You should demonstrate that you understand the nature of critical incidents and a range of means of capturing them.

This should be done in around 500 words or equivalent with 700 as a recommended maximum.

Apply reflective models and explore media and genre

Use one model of reflection on each of the critical incidents (two different models of reflection in total).

Consider the use of alternative genre as a learning aid.

Exploring different genre

LA 3 assessment guidance

Demonstrate the application of reflective models to your practice and an exploration of alternative genre

Create an account that explains your application of reflective models to your three critical incidents. You should use at least two different genre in your assessment product, these could be; poetry, a newspaper article, a short story, TV clip, radio play, animation, etc.

Evaluate the use of alternate genre.

This should be done in around 1200 words or equivalent.

Identify your own learning - stitching

Look back over all of the learning activities you have carried out so far and consider the value of the experience that you have been through.

In doing this you should consider:

• What did and what did not work well
• What value you derived from the exploration of reflective practice
• How you could use reflective practice in the future
• What else you have learned while doing this module ?

 You might find it valuable to revisit workshop 7 to refresh your understanding of our patchwork approach to assessment and the purpose of stitching.

LA4 assessment guidance

To complete LA4 you need to stitch together the pieces of work you have created into a cohesive assessment product.

You might prefer to spread some of the stitching by adding retrospective commentary between the pieces you have collected or you might prefer to do the stitching in one conclusive final section.

This should be presented in around 1000 words or equivalent to bring your total word count to no more than 4000 words or equivalent.