Why do I need to become a reflective practitioner?

Hello, its Queenie again. How was your weekend? I hope you’re all good. Oh, nah it’s enough for the welcoming. So welcome back to my blog and today ‘s episode is about the reason that I need to become a reflective practitioner. And now, let’s get start.

To truly understand the meaning of reflective practitioner, the very first step is to know what reflective means? As such, reflective is more than just thinking about something in simple ways but it involves a whole complicated processes such as collecting, gather, investigate and determine the particular issue that people want to mention about.

Reflective thinking is not just a combination of How, Why, What, Where and When questions but it develop more about Metacognitive; is also known as Think of thinking. Gil-Garcia and Cintron (2002) stated “a reflective journal involves learners in ‘self-assessment, collaborative critique, self-reflection and goal-setting” (p.1). These four main step in order to become a reflective practitioner can be understood in simpler meaning where self-awareness is about your reaction (feeling and thinking) about a particular topic, collaborative critique is more on questioning for that topic. The self-reflection is the interact between your already learning and your new learning. Goal-setting is the last part where all the above parts are satisfied. Goal-setting is act as a catalyst in order to speed up the whole process. Having a goal-setting is like a schedule where all the important events and things to do are already list down in order to complete on time.

So, Why do I want to become a reflective practitioner and What is the benefit that I receive from it?

Here is my answer. As such, become a reflective practitioner bring me a whole range of opportunities to explore myself to other people. In addition, become a reflective practitioner bring me deeper understanding, thoughtful and critical mind about the particular event.

It is difficult to understand the term ‘reflective practitioner’ at first but the more your practice to develop your knowledge of thinking, the more you will get familiar with this term.

Reference

Gil-Garcia, A., & Cintron, Z. (2002). The reflective journal as a learning and professional development tool for teachers and administrators. Paper presented at the World Association for Case Method Research and Application Conference. Germany. July 2–5 (Available on e-reserve)