6.4 Reflecting on your learning
This is the last section of the six-week module, so it’s time for a final reflection.
Look back over the notes you have made in your reflective journal. What have you learned?
You may have found out more about a disability or medical condition. Perhaps you know yourself better and you are more aware of your unconscious biases? Perhaps you have a new strategy for improving your practice: will you be working with parents differently as a result of completing this module?
What were the inspiring moments for you? Were there times when you thought, for example, ‘That’s something I’ve always wondered about’, or ‘I’ve never thought about that before’, or ‘Well, that makes a lot of sense!’
Make a note of any personally inspiring moments in your learning journal.
Now choose three words to describe your most inspiring moment and add them to the module reflection thread in the forum.
Listen to some final thoughts from Elizabeth Henderson, where she shares the three reflective questions she asks herself if she is feeling muddled or weighed down in her practice. Perhaps these will be a useful set of questions to take with you from the module:
Transcript: Video 6.2 Three reflective questions
Will you take these three thoughts with you into your practice?
Reflection activity
Use your saved learner journal to make notes about this final week of learning, and also make notes on the most valuable learning outcomes from the whole module. (You can also type into the box below and then copy and paste it into your learner journal.)
Remember to save your learner journal and keep it for future reference.
Reflection table for Week 6
Source of knowledge | |
Key point | |
How has this made me think? | |
So what have I learned? | |
Next steps: what can I improve or what more do I need to know? | |
Next steps: what improvements can I make to my practice? |
(Adapted from Appleby and Hanson, 2017)
Now it’s time to complete the End-of-course quiz.
Your role in influencing policies and practice in your setting