Personal Statement
As a lifelong learner of education, it has been my passion to inspire others to develop themselves to be their best. My long term goals are to build greater capacity in myself so that I can more effectively coach others to develop new and better ways of cultivating their skills and talents. Coaching is relationship based that requires a partnerships between the coach and provider, resulting in positive outcomes for children.
The areas that I hope to gain deeper knowledge in is cultural competency, reflective practice, and adult resiliency.
• Cultural Competency: Improve in bi-cultural inclusiveness. Recognize my personal perceptions and that of the provider, leading to a bridge between the provider’s values and Early Achievers standards.
• Reflective Practice: Find creative and relevant means of sharing with colleagues what is/is not working well for us in the field and how we can ensure that the outcomes of these conversations are integrated in practical ways in our work. Ultimately, resulting in providers and children benefiting from
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At every level of the program they were had difficulty; owner, director, and the majority of the teaching staff. My initial goal was to build a partnership with the director and staff, inform with best practices, and guide individual teachers based on their level of experience. After months of taking this approach I was able to develop trust with a couple of the teachers. But, because the owner and director had not fully bought into Early Achievers, some of the more reluctant teachers followed their lead. It was difficult to get a full buy in from all of the staff. What I had discovered was there had not been any significant amount of professional development among the staff to support efforts for high quality learning for a substantial number of
Reflective practice is important because it accurately assesses the need of each service user. It is essential that all care workers become familiar with reflective practice as our profession depends on shared support, care workers.
Reflective practice allows us to reflect on our actions and experiences so that we can learn from them and adapt our behaviour accordingly. Reflective practice can be uncomfortable as it challenges our own assumptions about ourselves however it is vital for improving the quality of the service we provide.
Ans. Reflective practice is a way of learning from own experience to improve the way we work.
Reflective practice helps workers think about how they could change their way of working – or should change their way of working by thinking ahead and using a structure to suit an activity.
Reflective practice is often defined as when practitioners engage in a continuous cycle of self observation and self evaluation in order to understand their own actions and reactions they prompt in themselves and in learners (Brookfield, 1995; Thiel, 1999). The goal is not necessarily to address a specific problem or question defined at the outset, as in practitioner research but to observe and refine practice in general on an ongoing basis. (Cunningham 2001). Reflection on practice is a key skill for nurses. Engaging in regular reflection allows practitioners to manage the personal and professional impact of addressing their patients’ fundamental health and wellbeing needs daily (Oelofsen, 2012)
Reflective practice is a self-analysis tool, by which practitioners can develop a greater level of self-awareness about the nature and impact of their performance, an awareness that creates opportunities for professional growth and development (Kottkamp & Osterman, 1993). Reflective practice allows professionals to assess their performance, make sense of what happened and learn from mistakes and experiences in order to develop, improve and adapt. (Cropley, et al., 2012).
Reflective Practice Introduction: Reflection its self is looking into personal thoughts and actions. For nurses this would mean looking at how they performed a particular task taking into consideration their interaction with their colleagues and other members of staff, patients and in some cases relatives This then enables the nurse to assess their actions and thought processes. There are various frameworks of reflection that one could choose and the examples used for this work is by Gibbs (1988), Johns (2000) and Benner (1982) Gibbs: Gibbs reflective cycle encourages one to think in order about the different areas of an experience. It is presented in a number of questions that the reflective practitioner
The ability to become reflective in practice has become a necessary skill for health professionals. This is to ensure that health professionals are continuing with their daily learning and improving their practice. Reflective practice plays a big part in healthcare today and is becoming increasingly noticed.
Redmond, Bairbre. (2004) Reflection in Action Developing Reflective Practice in Health and Social Services. Aldershot, England: Ashgate
In writing this summary, you must reference the self-assessment tool. My childhood consisted of two significant moves across the states. Born and raised in southern Florida till I was eight, I was not very exposed to much diversity until moving to California, at age 8 to 15 years old, where I was exposed to mass amounts of diversity and culture. In completing this self-assessment survey, I learned a great deal about myself and the ability to bring to light my strengths and challenges in multicultural awareness and becoming more culturally competent in my nursing skills. I have always found different cultures fascinating. I adored finding out about various cultures and understanding that every culture has their own method for the different circumstances in their life and not a single one is "better" than the other. This mindset has permitted me to associate and well with individuals of various Cultures. Be that as it may, while I had great aims, the experience is the best learning system for managing diverse societies. In using the survey, I realized that I have come a long way since first becoming a nurse to now with twelve years’ experience that I will always be learning and educating myself on other cultures to become a culturally competent nurse.
The coach sees himself as preparing people not only for achievement in sport, but through sport for a life of personal fulfilment and for the enrichment of community.
Coaching, however challenging, is a great way to influence the lives of others while also building their character. For as long as there have been sports, there have been people teaching the sport to the players and making them better at it. Coaches must have certain qualities in order to obtain success. One must also look at a coach’s motivation for his job, his passion for what he does, his methods for coaching, and how he became a coach in order to fully understand him. There are many questions someone may want to ask a coach about his profession if they are interested in coaching. Some questions would include: Why did he choose this as a profession? How did he get into coaching? What does one have to do to get a job as a coach? How
Coaching is the art of facilitating another person’s learning, development and performance. Through coaching people are able to find their own solutions, develop their own skills and change their own behaviors and attitudes.
Reflective practice has become very popular over the last few decades throughout a variety of professions. In some professions it has become one of the defining features of competence. The wide spread utilization of reflective practice is due to the fact that it ‘rings true’ (Loughran, 2000).
Upon successful completion of this project I will identify an existing problem of a team that I am a part of and I will act as team leader and develop a coaching plan to solve this problem. I will use my current place of employment as an example. As team leader, I will lead the resolution to the problem and build a more cohesive and productive team.