5 - Reflection 1

You have reached the first plateau, finished the first block. Now it’s time to reflect on your goals and perhaps change them along the way.

Reflecting is an important method to analyze your actions and become aware of what worked and what not. It is an easy way to learn, as you can actually do this all by yourself! There are lots of reflection methods, most of them have things in common as in they look at details of the process. We’re going to use one made by Korthagen.

For each of the competencies you are going to shortly reflect on some actions. Write this down for each competency you took on this block. Focus on yourself, your own actions.

1. Describe the situation:

• What happened during the block that you could use for this competency
• What did you want to reach, what was your goal again?
• How were you going to reach this goal, what steps did you want to take and what things did you want to try out?

2. In reality, what did you actually do? Describe your behaviour or some actions you did. Answer following questions about those actions:

• What did you want while doing that (what was the purpose)
• What did you think and what did you feel?
• What did you think or feel that others thought and felt?

3. Become aware of the core:

• Were you successful? 

• Can you explain the success (or ‘failure’)? What made it a success or what not? Why?

• What went well? What do you want to keep doing after this?

• What did you learn from, what are you going to differently after this?

• The actual core: what does that say about you, about your approach and process

4. Alternatives and next lessons:

• What alternatives do you see (even when it was a success)?

• What are you going to do after this?

• Change/improve your goal using the GROW method again for next block.