Week 3 - Reflective Writing for blogs with Catherine Tomlin

In this week's session, we covered the different features of reflective writing. To start the session we conducted a true or false activity that covered the do's and don'ts of reflectivity. Next, the different features that can feature in this style of writing

Next was the different tools that can be used to aid reflection such as, learning journals, lists, recordings from digital devices, and creative representations such as mind maps and icons.

Next, we covered a model to aid in reflection this will help to structure my thoughts when I next reflect on my work. furthermore, we then covered the structure of our weekly blog and how to decide the content to fill into it. By finding a critical incident that can be small things that may be more personally significant to my work. The need to be critical and analytical and insightful about my work. Having looked at this model I had never considered the process of reflection to be so standardised and systematic. It has helped me discover that I can follow a system to appropriately reflect on my work. Now I will use the pattern of this model and can try to incorporate it into my future reflective practices.

Finally ending the session with useful phrases and ways of incorporating them into my work, I have picked three of the phrases that I thought were most effective and will end this post with them as I felt they challenged the way I currently use reflective language.

•I learned…

•I was excited by…

•I was moved by...