Gibbs’s Reflective Model for Developing Critical Thinking Skills

Critical Thinking

GIBBS’S REFLECTIVE MODEL
This model was developed to examine the overall experience in cyclic manner as it includes
the experience of team members that will be understood with the help of Gibbs reflective model
and also show the development of critical skills and how they developed in the classrooms. It
represents the overall process of learning with the personal experience that include the
challenges and opportunities. It includes six stages which are discussed in the form of personal
reflection:
 Description: It is the first stage of reflection in which an individual tends to describe
his/her experience of critical thinking. As a team leader, I need to develop my critical
thinking skills in order to develop the group behaviour and proper observation of the
specified task or issue. It has been analysed that I am weak in critical thinking skills due
to which I need to face lot of consequences like I am not able to analyse or observe things
before it happens and it leads to cause major loss to my working pattern or overall
reputation (Lamers-Reeuwijk, Admiraal and Van Der Rijst, 2020). Therefore, critical
thinking skills is important because people need to work with each other in order to
achieve specified task or objective and due to this, I need to properly analyse few things
which are useful in order to achieve common goal and objectives.
 Feelings: In this stage, an individual reflect his/her feelings and thoughts as this stage is
important to understand the overall experience. Here, as a team leader I felt that I need to
develop my critical thinking skills as it is important for the achievement of common goals
and objectives. It includes the suitable incidents where I felt that the critical thinking
skills plays an important role like planning, directing, organising and so on. Furthermore,
after analysing the overall performance I came to know that I need to develop suitable
skill to improvise the performance of my subordinates.
 Evaluation: This stage is useful for an individual to express their good and bad behaviour
regarding the learning experience. It is important for the learners like me to know about
the suitable challenges and opportunities while sharing the overall experience (Reimer
and Whitaker, 2019). In terms of critical thinking skills, I decided to that as a team leader
I need to focus over the development of my analytical and observations to determine the
situation or behaviour of other individual. Due to the lack of this skill, I came to face
major issues towards the accomplishment of common goals and objectives. Hence, to