Conference with Confidence: Reflective Practice Workshop
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Reflective practice involves reflecting on one's actions to facilitate continuous learning. It can be done individually through journaling or with others in meetings. Reflecting helps overcome assumptions and maintain work-life balance. Models of reflection like Kolb's experiential learning cycle provide structure but may not always apply. Reflective writing should be analytical rather than descriptive and demonstrate learning and future applications. It requires reflecting on "what, so what, now what" regarding experiences. Barriers include lack of time, skills, and motivation, but can be overcome by prioritizing reflection and using examples.
Conference with Confidence: Reflective Practice Workshop
- 1. Reflective Practice Claire Sewell Research Support Skills Coordinator
- 2. Outline o What is reflective practice? o Models of reflection o Barriers to reflective practice o Reflective writing
- 3. What is reflective practice?
- 4. What is reflective practice? Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one’s actions so as to engage in a process of continuous learning - Wikipedia
- 5. Everyday reflective practice Individual reflection o On the commute o In the shower o Talking to a friend/partner at the end of the day o Journal/diary o Staff review and development Group reflection o Team meetings o Away days o Formal methods o Guided reflections o Journal clubs
- 6. Why reflect? o Overcome self-talk o Shows what went wrong/right o Aids creativity o Overcomes assumptions o Helps maintain work/life balance
- 7. Reflective practice in librarianship o Service improvements o Personal development o CILIP qualifications o Academic qualifications o Scholarly communication
- 9. ERA Cycle
- 10. Kolb’s Experiential Learning Cycle
- 13. Pros and cons Pros o Offers a structure o Provides a starting point o Allows you to see the bigger picture o Shows when the process is complete Cons o Implies a certain sequence o You may not always begin at the beginning o Models may not always apply o Reflective practice s a continuous process
- 14. Reflection in action o Person one o Describe an activity you have recently taken part in o Person two o Ask what, so what, now what? Two minutes and switch
- 16. What are the barriers? o No time o Organisational culture o Lack of skill o Environment o Motivation o Yourself!
- 17. Overcoming barriers o Make time for reflection o Find a critical friend o No right way of reflecting
- 19. Reflective writing o Measuring your effectiveness o Asking and answering questions o Demonstrating how you have/will put what you have learnt into practice o Not just description!
- 20. Myth busting Reflective writing is… Reflective writing isn’t… Written in the first person Written in the third person Analytical Descriptive Free flowing What you think you should write Subjective Objective Tool to challenge assumptions Tool to ignore assumptions Time investment Waste of time The Reflective Practice Guide / Barbara Bassot
- 21. Example “I went on a useful marketing training course”
- 22. Example “I went on a useful marketing training course” “I identified a need to increase my skills in marketing. The training course gave me a lot of tips about presentations and enhanced my knowledge. I then took my ideas to the library publicity group and developed three for use in our new publicity materials. I intend to monitor the impact of these over the coming months”
- 23. Example “I went on a useful marketing training course” “I identified a need to increase my skills in marketing. The training course gave me a lot of tips about presentations and enhanced my knowledge. I then took my ideas to the library publicity group and developed three for use in our new publicity materials. I intend to monitor the impact of these over the coming months”
- 24. Example “I went on a useful marketing training course” “I identified a need to increase my skills in marketing. The training course gave me a lot of tips about presentations and enhanced my knowledge. I then took my ideas to the library publicity group and developed three for use in our new publicity materials. I intend to monitor the impact of these over the coming months”
- 25. Example “I went on a useful marketing training course” “I identified a need to increase my skills in marketing. The training course gave me a lot of tips about presentations and enhanced my knowledge. I then took my ideas to the library publicity group and developed three for use in our new publicity materials. I intend to monitor the impact of these over the coming months”
- 26. Driscoll’s 3 Whats What? – briefly describe the situation: what was the problem or situation you had to deal with? So what? – discuss what has been learnt: what did you learn about yourself or your service? How has this changed your understanding of what happened? Now what? – identify what needs to be done in the future: what will you do next as a consequence of what you have learnt? What would you do differently another time?
- 27. Exercises Choice of two exercises: 1. Free writing 2. Reflect on an experience
- 28. Feedback
- 29. Questions?
- 30. Top tips o Time spent on reflection is an investment o Reflection doesn’t have to focus only on the big things o Choose the method that works for you and don’t be afraid to try something different
- 31. Good luck! Claire Sewell Research Support Skills Coordinator Office of Scholarly Communication [email protected]