Reflective Journal on Employability Skills and Gibbs Model

Reflective Journal

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Gibbs model.................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
Online-...........................................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Reflective journals are those personal records of an individual which will help them to
evaluate their experience of learning (Alt, Raichel and Naamati-Schneider, 2021). There are
various kinds of models of reflection like Gibbs model of reflection, Kolbs model of reflection
and many others which will help an individual to analyse their past experience. Gibbs model
consist of six stages which are going to discuss in this report. The main purpose of this report is
to evaluate the employability skills which are learned at schools and universities and few of the
skills are learned outside schools and universities.
MAIN BODY
Gibbs model
Gibbs model
elements
Description of
Gibbs model
factors
Application of Gibbs
Stage 1-
Description
This will
describe the
situation as it
occurs that what
happen, who all
are present at the
situation and
many others
(Brugman and et.
al., 2021).
During my higher education, my teacher gave a group
assignment and ask me to become the leader of that group.
I have 5 members including me in my group. Teacher has
asked us to prepare a online game to minimize plagiarism
to help academic students. The concept of this game should
be remove plagiarism with few fun activities. Teacher gave
us a deadline of 25 days to complete this project. We have
completed the project and submit it but after 2 days of
deadline after taking permission from teacher.
Stage 2-
Feelings
This element
will describe the
specific feeling
of an individual
like what is felt
by an individual,
During this situation I felt nervous because teacher asked
me to manage the whole group effectively. I felt that if I
am unable to become good group leader then it may ruin
my image in front of my teacher and whole class. Two of
my group members did not like me and I felt that they are
unhappy to obey my instructions as a group leader.
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what others felt
and many others
(McCarthy and
et. al., 2021).
Stage 3-
Evaluation
This will help to
analyse the good
and bad about
the situation.
What all things
went well and
what did not
went well
(Forghani,
Bavali and
Hadipour Fard,
2022).
Few of the things went well during this situation and these
things is that I learned some effective employability skills
for my future growth. I have learned effective
communication skill. Communication skills are those skills
which are required by an individual to express his ideas in
front of others to influence them toward their message
(Botirov and Haydarov, 2022). While working in a group I
have learned this skill well. While working in a group I
have to communicate my group members and from this
team communication activity I learned this skill. Secondly,
I have also learned team working skill because I have
assigned task as per the skills and expertise of my group
members. For example, I have assign data collection
activity to that individual who have effective skill and
knowledge to collect data. I have also learned research
skill. Few things went bad in the situation like the project
is submitted after the deadline, we have submitted the
project on 27th day. There are few skills which I am lacking
behind like ICT skill, time and self-management skill and
problem solving skill.
Stage 4-
Analysis
This is another
step to explain
that why things
went well and
why things did
not went well
The things which went well is that I have managed my
team effectively and this happen because I follow the
procedure of management of a team like I clear the
objectives and aim of my group and assign them task as
per their skills and expertise. Second thing which went
well is that I have learned to influence people toward my
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