Successfully returning to a new academic year
How to work and learn independently: extend your capacity to be reflective
Reflective Practice is a method of self-evaluation whereby you assess your own thoughts and actions, for the purpose of personal and professional learning and development.
Tips to become more...
- Improve your listening skills
- Pay close attention to interactions with other people
- Identify other people's emotional states
- Think about your feelings
- Think before you answer and give clear answers
- Think beyond race and ethnicity
- Ask questions. You learn by asking so don't be afraid
- Make local connections
- Pay attention to non-verbal behaviour
- Exchange stories
- Keeping a journal and including images
- Art or sculpture
- Through drama or forum theatre
- Through narrative, telling the story of the event
- Through metaphor such as ‘river’ (see the Kawa Model)
- Through sound
- Through poetry
- Self-awareness - be aware of any bias or prejudices you hold
- Question your assumptions and others to see if they are true
- Integrity - be honest and have strong moral principles
- Be fair and respectful
- Be a role model