Reflective
Analysing and reflecting upon your learning is the essential element of your reflective journal. Reflecting requires you to think back over events/situations after they have occurred and revisit them as you progress throughout your course. Recording this reflective behaviour constitutes the reflective writing element of your reflective journal.
How to be Reflective
Within a few days of the event, record your thoughts about how you responded, what you learned, and how your understanding of underlying issues are developed. Leave enough space for subsequent reflective journal entries.
Reflect Again ...
Later on in the course, revisit some of your key journal entries and reflect upon your entries at that time. You can then record another entry that discusses how you feel now, what you have learned since that time, or why that event was significant for you.
Alternately, you might select some key themes from your journal and write further reflective entries on those themes that emerged.
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