Reflective Essay on Personal Experience and Development

REFLECTIVE ESSAY
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Reflective essay is an self analysis of an individual where the writer usually share their
experiences of their life events. Along with sharing experience, writer describes how some of the
events lead to changes in their life and helps him or her in development from those experiences
(Adeani and et. al., 2019). In this essay, reflection will be given on my personal experience as a
student and how it leads to development in my personality through the application of Gibbs
reflective model.
MAIN BODY
Gibbs model is used for reflecting on learning from past experiences, thoughts and feelings
about that experience and critical evaluation of experience by stating both good and bad feelings.
Then analysis is done to explain what sense that experience has made to one's life and finally
concluding what has been learnt by an individual and what he will be going to do if the same
situation would take place in future (Wareing, 2017). The following six stages of Gibbs model
will reflect upon a student experience, development and future approaches:
Description of the experience: It was my secondary schooling going on, when different groups
are formed for hosting different curricular activities in the school. Now, it was my team's turn
where we planned to host cooking competition in a school. We have started planning and
organising write from seven weeks before. I was much worried about the outcome initially, but
subsequently when things are going well as per plan I gain much confidence gradually.
Feelings about experience: Now the day of competition has come, me and my team members
are quite nervous. We have done much preparation for the event and I was the member from my
team who is chosen for hosting the competition. My teachers and team members all greeting me
for best performance. When I was begin with welcome quote, my voice was quite wobbling but
then I gain confident as the event moves forward. Also, my team members, teachers and seniors
appraise me a lot which allowed me to perform well till the end of the event.
Evaluation of experience in terms of what goes well and what not: On evaluation, I can say
something I feel that went much better than what I expected, but also there are some weaknesses
that I realised could go well if it has been taken into planning. Certain things that go quite well
are, first of all my hosting where I successfully able to coordinate all the activities and along
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