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These resources can be used to support your own reflective practice.
These resources can be used to support your own reflective practice.
You are encouraged to take the lead for your own learning. It is intended to be a self-paced process to support personal and professional growth.
You are encouraged to take the lead for your own learning. It is intended to be a self-paced process to support personal and professional growth.
Consider your own readiness for learning and the formats you find engaging as you start this process, then proceed to other types of resources that may enhance and expand your thinking related to reflective practice.
Consider your own readiness for learning and the formats you find engaging as you start this process, then proceed to other types of resources that may enhance and expand your thinking related to reflective practice.
Reflection is a cycle of asking ourselves:
Reflection is a cycle of asking ourselves:
What do I notice?
What do I notice?
What do I think about that?
What do I think about that?
What do I wonder?
What do I wonder?
What are my next steps?
What are my next steps?
Reflection is a daily practice. You reflect while you engage with children, families, and colleagues. You also may reflect on your work while engaging in day to day activities, perhaps in your car or while waiting in line at the grocery store.
Reflection is a daily practice. You reflect while you engage with children, families, and colleagues. You also may reflect on your work while engaging in day to day activities, perhaps in your car or while waiting in line at the grocery store.
It is also important to create intentional opportunities for reflection on your work.
It is also important to create intentional opportunities for reflection on your work.
These intentional opportunities might look like:
These intentional opportunities might look like:
-creating space on your planning forms for you to jot down reflections
-creating space on your planning forms for you to jot down reflections
-keeping a journal
-keeping a journal
-scheduling a regular and consistent time to reflect together with colleagues
-scheduling a regular and consistent time to reflect together with colleagues
The CKC’s identify what the workforce should know and be able to do in working with and/or on behalf of children and families.
The CKC’s identify what the workforce should know and be able to do in working with and/or on behalf of children and families.
This makes them the jumping off point for making decisions about places of growth and change in practice.
This makes them the jumping off point for making decisions about places of growth and change in practice.
Reflection is the first step in growth- answering the question, where am I and where do I want to get to. In implementing the CKC’s, in making them come to life, users of the CKC’s engage in processes of reflection.
Reflection is the first step in growth- answering the question, where am I and where do I want to get to. In implementing the CKC’s, in making them come to life, users of the CKC’s engage in processes of reflection.
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