Enhancing Professional Practice Through Reflective Analysis

This essay provides a comprehensive reflection on professional practice, emphasizing the importance of self-assessment in identifying strengths and weaknesses. It covers key aspects such as understanding reflective practice and its significance, relevant codes of practice concerning legal and...Read More

Reflect on and
improve own
professional practice

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................3
Understanding of reflective practice and its importance.............................................................3
Relevant codes of practice in relation to legal and ethical responses..........................................3
Meaning of duty of care in relation to reflective practice...........................................................3
Importance of understanding learning styles...............................................................................4
Methods of learning styles...........................................................................................................4
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

Introduction
Self reflection is the way by which an individual share their experience and understandings
of their gained knowledge on a particular topic. Self assessment is important because it will help
a student tom identify the areas of their strengths and weaknesses. The following report covers
understanding of reflective practice and its importance, legal and ethical responsibilities,
meaning of duty of care, importance of understanding learning style and two methods of learning
style.
Main Body
Understanding of reflective practice and its importance.
Reflective practice is the concept which is used when individual conduct his/her own actions
and abilities analysis (Cushion, 2018). It is important because it will help to analyse the strong
and weak skills of an individual so that he can make corrective measures to convert his
weaknesses into his strengths. There are various kind of learning model and few of these model
is given below-
 Kolb’s cycle of reflection- This will help an individual to learn from his own experience.
 Gibb’s reflective cycle- This model will help to describe a situation which is faced by an
individual to analyse what he has learned from the situation.
 SWOT analysis- Here, individual analyse his/her strengths and weakness as well as
opportunities to grow well and threats.
Relevant codes of practice in relation to legal and ethical responses
Honesty and loyalty- It is essential for an individual to become honest and legal
employees for his company where he must perform his task with full honesty and provide
accurate report to his senior.
Professional interest- It is also important that an individual must kept his professional
interest above then his personal interest for professional growth.
Meaning of duty of care in relation to reflective practice
Duty of care can be defined as a moral or legal obligation to show respect, wellbeing and
safety for others (Bakewell, Pauls and Migneault, 2020). In context of employer their duty of
care is toward their employees and they must follow the legal responsibilities to provide well-
being environment for employees to work within the organisation. It is not only related to

employees buy a company must ensure that their product, services or any official act should not
harm their employees as well as their customers.
Importance of understanding learning styles
There is various kind of learning styles for an individual which help them to enhance their
knowledge and understanding on a particular topic (Cimermanová, 2018). Learning styles is
important to help a teacher as well as student to identify different ways to improve their learning
as well as teaching. A good learning style will to generate interest of students on particular topic
to gain knowledge.
Methods of learning styles.
There are many learning styles and few of them are explained below-
 Visual learning style- Here, individual show few pictures, graphs, symbols and many
others to make others to understand the concept easily.
 Auditory learning style- Here, individual learn any concept by listening the voice of
instructor (Sudria and et. al., 2018).
According me, I would like to prefer visual learning style better than any others learning
style because it further help me to generate interest in learning. Secondly, visual learning help
me to retain knowledge and understand about the topic for longer period of time.
Conclusion
It is concluded that self reflection is one the way which help individual to analyse their
personal experience in a situation so that they can analyse their strengths and weaknesses. There
are various kinds of learning styles which help students and teachers to opt those methods which
help them to enhance their knowledge and understandings.

References
Books and Journals
Cushion, C.J., 2018. Reflection and reflective practice discourses in coaching: A critical
analysis. Sport, education and society, 23(1), pp.82-94.
Bakewell, F., Pauls, M.A. and Migneault, D., 2020. Ethical considerations of the duty to care and
physician safety in the COVID-19 pandemic. Canadian Journal of Emergency
Medicine, 22(4), pp.407-410.
Cimermanová, I., 2018. The Effect of Learning Styles on Academic Achievement in Different
Forms of Teaching. International Journal of Instruction, 11(3), pp.219-232.
Sudria, I.B.N. and et. al., 2018. Effect of Kolb's Learning Styles under Inductive Guided-Inquiry
Learning on Learning Outcomes. International Journal of Instruction, 11(1), pp.89-102.