Week 17 / My Reflective Practice

1.     Descriptive: After doing the survey and looking at the results, it made me realize that, I tend to reflect verbally and will share with our peers the things that are happening in my practice. I seldom write it in a forum to share nor do I receive feedback from others, other than the peers at school. I tend to make changes to my practice based on the cues from my children in class. With the verbal sharing, it is hard to look back on the reflective discussions or at times get feed forward that is constructive and based on anything other than peer’s experience.  I feel I am at the initial stages of this reflective journey and I am interested to see where and what I will learn in the coming weeks and beyond.  At present, it is the end of week one and it’s been a pretty hard week with a feeling of being overwhelmed.  Preparation has not been to the standard that I like and it has left me feeling, a bit stressed. A lack of knowledge of what the possible topics were for the term contributed to ill preparation and a lack of seek information on my part definitively added to this.  Being away from school at the end of term for two weeks didn’t help either.   On the other hand, the children have been very settled and the new initiatives that have been introduced are awesome and made a positive impact to the tone of the school.

2.     Comparative: Looking at the survey, showed a number of participants were at a similar stage to me and tended to communicate with peers and take cues from the children. On the school side of things, one of staff members shared that she felt the same as I did, re: preparation for the term. 

3.     To improve the situation in future. I need to communicate and push myself to seek out required knowledge to fully prepare for what is ahead.  I also need to prepare independently and not wait for the collective.  Finally, time management is skill that  I need to developed.