Reflective Cycle

Question 1

Gibbs Reflective Cycle

Answer 1

Description–>Feelings–>Evaluation–>Analysis–>Conclusion–>Action Plan

Question 2

Description

Answer 2

What Happened? What was the critical event?

Question 3

Feelings

Answer 3

What were your feelings? How did you feel at the time, how do you feel now?

Question 4

Evaluation

Answer 4

What was good and bad about the experience? Both for you and others involved. What was positive and negative?

Question 5

Analysis

Answer 5

What sense can you make of it? What can you learn from the experience?

Question 6

Conclusion

Answer 6

What could you have done differently, looking back now?

Question 7

Action Plan

Answer 7

If it happens again, what would you do? IF a similar set of circumstances happened again, what would you do?

Question 8

Model of Structured Reflection

Answer 8

Description, Reflection, influencing factors, Learning

Question 9

Description

Answer 9

The description is always first; Describe the experience. What factors contributed? What was the context? What was special about the experience?

Question 10

Reflection

Answer 10

Why did you act the way you did? What were the consequences on yourself and others? What are you r feelings and those of others? How do you know the feelings of others?

Question 11

Influencing factors

Answer 11

What internal and external factors influenced the choices you made? What knowledge influenced the choices? What other choices were available? What do you think the outcome would have been for the other available choices?

Question 12

Learning

Answer 12

How has this experience changed your knowledge base? how will it affect future choices? How has it changed your ethical knowledge? How has it changed your knowledge about yourself? How has it changed the way you view other people or the world around you? Can you make any sense out of this experience? Could you have done anything else? What would you do differently?

Question 13

Childbirth International Reflective Model

Answer 13

Describe, Feelings, Actions, Learning, Apply

Question 14

Describe

Answer 14

Recount the event; what were you goals and expectations at the time? Don’t talk about what you felt.

Question 15

Feelings

Answer 15

After the event, what did you feel about yourself and others? What causes these feelings? Take ownership.

Question 16

Actions

Answer 16

In what way did your actions meet your goals? What else could you have done to meet your goals and why didn’t you do this?

Question 17

Learning

Answer 17

What do you feel now? What have you learnt about yourself and others?

Question 18

Apply

Answer 18

How has reflection helped you? How can your learning affect your work.

Question 19

Key components of Reflective Thinking

Answer 19

• Identifying and seeking solutions to problems
  
  • Considering why or how we do things
  • Questioning why others do things the way they do
  • Looking for and exploring alternatives
  • Comparing and contrasting different options and outcomes
  • Being able to see a situation from several different perspectives
    • need other people
  • Seeking feedback and opinions from other people
  • Keeping an open mind
    • Being able to take correction is so important
  • Considering both positive and negative consequences of our choices

Question 20

3 Characteristics of a reflective thinker

Answer 20

• Openminded
  * Have the ability to consider a problem in new or different ways without feeling defensive.
  
  • Wholehearted
    
    • able to be thoroughly absorbed by a subjected with an enthusiasm for learning.
  • Responsible
    
    • Able to identify or explain why something is worth believing or doing

Question 21

Reflection

Answer 21

helps us to examine our experience rather than just living it.