Reflective Learning and Gibbs Model of Reflection

ORIENTATION FOR
SUCEESS IN HIGHER
EDUCATION

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Reflective learning is one of the form of learning through which learning experiences of
one can be reflected which assists the individual in developing critical thinking ability and by
analysing past performance and learning improvement can be done future performance. Self
analysis, beliefs, thoughts and experience are involved in reflective learning (Gallagher and
et.al., 2017). Through this essay individual can understand the concept of the reflective learning
as well as the concept of business management discipline. This respective essay also includes
the Gibbs, 1998 model of reflection, feedback to reflective approach and feed forward which is a
protocol that leads teachers to reflect their lessons. Here teachers are ready to receive the
feedbacks which will lead towards the improvement of summative and formative assessment.
Through this changes can be made in teaching styles accordingly if the teachers receives
feedback from the students. In addition to this summative assessment can also be done through
this reflective learnings.
MAIN BODY
Reflective learning is the process of analysing the past performance and performing in
future which can be done by applying Gibbs model of reflection (Mulryan-Kyne, 2021). Gibbs's
reflective cycle was given by Professor Graham Gibbs which is one of the most famous cyclical
model. This model consists of six stages where each stages helps in reflecting particular learning.
Repeated learning experiences can be given more focus through this framework. The six stages
of Gibbs model are discussed below:
 step-1 Description: This is the first and foremost stage of this model where the situation
or experience of the people is described. In this stage question should be asked 'what
happened', 'where did it happened'. Through this module we can learn to describe the
situation in an appropriate manner which I have taken in this essay.
 Step-2 Feelings: In this stage, the people should give description about their thoughts,
beliefs and feeling about the particular situation. The thoughts of the people about the
particular situation can be explored through this stage of the model. In this stage I asked
question 'what I was feeling when the situation took place'. Here I can learn about how to
describe the feeling in particular situation.
 Step-3 Evaluation: In this stage of particular model, the situation and experience of an
individual can be can be assessed positively or negatively. This step helps the individual
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