experience, reflection, abstraction, and active testing DESCRIPTION What happened? FEELINGS What were you thinking and feeling? EVALUATION What was good and bad about the experience? ANALYSIS What sense can you make of the Situation? CONCLUSION What else could you have done? ACTION PLAN If it arose again what would you do? Reflection – the Learning Cycle Developed by Kolb, Dewey, Piaget & Lewin
and revisiting It can be private to you and of a style personal to you It can allow you to challenge yourself It can provide you with evidence of your development over time It can provide you with clarity through the act of writing 4 Keeping a reflective journals - benefits
of the reflective journal Look at the areas that have been identified for improvement What is needed to improve? How will this happen? What times scales are involved? How will you assess if the improvement has been made? 5