1. Reflection, Reflective Writing & PebblePad Neil Currant, lecturer in PDP

2. Learning Objectives To be aware of different approaches to reflection & reflective writing and how you can apply it. To become familiar with how to start reflecting.

3. Possible definitions of reflection An activity in which people “recapture their experience, think about it, mull it over and evaluate it” (Boud, Keogh and Walker 1985:19) Reflection ON action, i.e. thinking about past events. E.g. What did you learn yesterday.

4. Reflective writing “We can learn from our own and each other’s mistakes and successes...and come to terms with our own problem areas.” Without writing it down we often “do not tell ourselves the things at our cutting edge of difficulty” (Bolton 2005:23)

5. Reflection link: Psychomotor CognitiveAffective reflection Psychomotor = skills, practical, e.g. learning to ride a bike Affective = emotion, behaviour, e.g. Learning to change an attitude Cognitive = thinking, theory, e.g. Learning a new concept Reflection = combination of affective & cognitive

6. How do we do it? What?So What?Now What? Think about a lecture you had this week. Write down a sentence starting with each of these words for that lecture. What: I learnt... So what: This means I can... Now what: In order to get a better understanding I am going to...

7. I learnt about concept X. This means I can use this knowledge to do this piece of work (be specific). In order to get a better understanding I am going to do... (be specific) so that I can improve...

8. Action planning: What are smart goals? Specific Measurable Achievable Realistic Time bound

9. Action planning: What are good goals? I am going to improve my reading skills. I will attend a workshop on reading skills in the first semester. I am going to read a book a day until Christmas. I am going to start reading for my essays as soon as I get my essay titles. I will read all the books on my reading list in 2 weeks.

10. Assessment feedback task Log into PebblePad www.pebblepad.co.uk/bradfordwww.pebblepad.co.uk/bradford Make sure you have a copy of your assignment feedback. Click on create new and then action plan. Give it a title and then in the current situation box enter the key points from the assignment feedback. Click on 2 and then in the ideal situation box write what grade and what sort of feedback you hope to get in the future. Click on 3 and then write some actions that you can do to improve. Remember to be SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time- bound). Click on 4 and think / write about your strengths and weaknesses in writing assignments. Click on 5 and add any useful resources that may help you. Click on 6 and add any further thoughts about your feedback and your assignment. Click on 7 and then the green tick to save or send to…person to send it to Adelina.

11. Resources to Support Your Development Materials within Develop Me! to help develop your skills All LDU workshop materials are available on the Develop Me! website Links to quality external materials

12. Contact Details Learner Development Unit (LDU) –www.brad.ac.uk/lss/learnerdevelopmentwww.brad.ac.uk/lss/learnerdevelopment –learner-development@brad.ac.uk –01274 236849 (general enquiries) –07917 241214 (text) PebblePAD queries –http://www.bradford.ac.uk/lss/tqeg/pebblepad/http://www.bradford.ac.uk/lss/tqeg/pebblepad/ –pebblepad@bradford.ac.uk