Reflect on and develop practice
Overview
Who is this unit for?
This unit is for those who work with children and young people in a range of
settings and services.
What is this unit about?
This unit is about the competence you need to reflect on your practice. Selfevaluation and reflection will enable you to learn and develop your practice. This unit also includes taking part in continuing professional development and how this has been used to develop your practice.
This unit contains two elements:
1. Reflect on practice
2. Take part in continuing professional development
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Reflect on practice
P1 monitor processes, practices and outcomes from your own work
P2 evaluate your own performance (achievements, strengths and weaknesses) using best practice benchmarks
P3 reflect on your interactions with others
P4 share your reflections with others and use their feedback to improve your own evaluation
P5 use reflection to solve problems
P6 use reflection to improve practice
Take part in continuing professional development
P7 identify areas in your knowledge, understanding and skills where you could develop further
P8 develop and negotiate a plan to develop your knowledge, skills and understanding further
P9 seek out and access opportunities for continuing professional development as part of this plan
P10 use continuing professional development to improve your practice
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
K1 why reflection on practice and evaluation of personal effectiveness is important
K2 how learning through reflection can increase professional knowledge and skills
K3 how reflection can enhance and use personal experience to increase confidence and self-esteem
K4 techniques of reflective analysis:
K4.1 questioning what, why and how
K4.2 seeking alternatives
K4.3 keeping an open mind
K4.4 viewing from different perspectives
K4.5 thinking about consequences
K4.6 testing ideas through comparing and contrasting
K4.7 asking `what if?'
K4.8 synthesising ideas
K4.9 seeking, identifying and resolving problems
K5 reflection as a tool for contrasting what we say we do and what we actually do
K6 how to use reflection to challenge existing practice
K7 the difficulties that may occur as a result of examining beliefs, values and feelings
K8 how to assess further areas for development in your skills and knowledge through reflection, feedback and using resources such as the internet, libraries, journals
K9 how to develop a personal development plan with objectives that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and with timescales
K10 the availability and range of training and development opportunities in the local area and how to access these
K11 the importance of integrating new information and/or learning in order to meet current best practice, quality schemes or regulatory requirements
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Best practice benchmarks
widely agreed as providing the most advanced, up-to-date thinking and practice against which you can measure what you are doing: not minimum standards. Benchmarks can be statutory/regulatory or based on other requirements or research
Continuing professional development ongoing training and professional updating
Processes, practices and outcomes
how you do things, what you do and what you achieve
Reflective practice
the process of thinking about and critically analysing your actions with the goal of changing and improving occupational practice
Links To Other NOS
TDASTL5 Provide effective support for your colleagues
Origin of this unit
This unit is taken from the National Occupational Standards in Children’s Care, Learning and Development where it appears as CCLD 304.
This unit is underpinned by the principles and values for the National Occupational Standards in Children’s Care Learning and Development.