I can’t believe that we are at the beginning of October and that we have now reached thing 17.

The post about reflective practice is particularly useful to me in my role as a Cilip Mentor.  It is the one area that  people become very worried about as they are not sure what it means to them.  I had not come across the diagram or Gibbs  reflective cycle, despite it having been around for most of my professional life.  If nothing else I would have expected to come across it whilst undertaking my OU degrees.

Having the sequence in a pictorial form enables you to quickly assess what you should be doing and where you are in the process.  In the article I greatly appreciated the fact that Stephanie showed us the various stages that you can go through in increasing the reflective elements of your writing.

I also think this might have some uses in my role as a school governor, so that I get a more holistic view of what is going on and where we need to be focusing as a governing body.  Definitely lots of things to think about and consider what they mean and where I should be focusing.