Reflective learning articles

Reflective journals and logs can be very useful for communication. It is a very useful tool for expressing feelings and thoughts. By blogging on a regular basis, you can reflect upon activities and challeges. It is an effective way of communication as communication is used in every day life. Gibbs(1996) came up with six steps to help people recognise and help reflective practice, them being :
Descrption- what happened?

Feelings- What were you thinking?

Evaluation- What was good and bad about the experience?

analysis- what sence can you make out of the situation?

Conclusion- what else could you have done?

Action plan- what will you do next time?

If after a task we followed these 6 simple steps we can learn how to improve ourselves and learn certain things about ourselves also. By reflecting we enable ourselves to gain better knowledge and understanding on subjects and can only improve ourselves.