Reflective Practice Template
There is no right or wrong way to reflect on your practice. Different people learn in
different ways and while one person may learn by reflecting on a positive outcome,
another may find it most useful to focus on a situation they found challenging.
ANTICIPATION What event or topic are you
PLANNING STAGE reflecting on?
Give a brief description. You
don’t need to give all the
details, but rather focus on
the event itself.
Too broad a focus can make it
difficult to give the topic the
attention it needs and
might be hard to give direction
to your reflection.
ANTICIPATION Would you call this a RESPONSE
PLANNING STAGE positive or challenging
activity?
At this point, you can talk What feelings would you use STATE how you feel
about the following: to describe the planned and explain WHY
Your emotional activity? below?
response to the rock Use
climbing activity. Do you feel excited or examples/concrete
Your experience of nervous about the activity? details to support
beginning to plan your answer.
the logistics of the Why do you feel this way?
activity in your team Think of the factors in your
meetings. background, experiences and
culture which influence how
you feel.
ACTIVITY STAGE What happened? RESPONSE
At this point, you can talk Give a brief
about the following: description of the
event.
Your role/experience as a What is your
team member and response physical/affective/cognitive Do you feel excited,
to your own effort/behavior response to the activity of rock nervous or
and that of other team climbing and participation in disappointed about
members. the team itself? the role you were
playing? Why?
Your
physical/affective/cognitiv How did you
e response to the activity of respond?
rock climbing.
How did your team
respond?
You can link it to change in
your thinking and behavior What did you feel
and/or understanding of the during the event?
dynamics of teamwork.
What did you feel
afterwards?
POST ACTIVITY Looking back RESPONSE
At this point, you can talk Are you satisfied with
about the following: how you responded?
If not, why not? What
Your own team behavior. were the factors
affecting you?
Others’ team behavior.
Do you think you
Strategies you used or worked effectively
could have used? with your
colleagues? If not,
What worked/what didn’t? what would help
Why? effective work in the
future?
Did you had all the
support you needed?
If not, what would
have helped?
If in a group, was the
group satisfied with
how it responded? If
not, why not?
Did the group work
as an effective team?
PLANNING FOR THE Looking forward RESPONSE
FUTURE
At this point, you can talk If there is a similar
about the following: activity in the future,
would you do
Applying learnings from anything differently?
activity to practice in your
future. What did you learn
from this experience
Strategies you might and/or your reflection
adopt? on it?
How will this learning
improve your
practice?
How will this learning
be used to the
benefit future team
work?
Are there lessons to
be learned for your
team/ your
colleagues/ the
policies or
systems you follow?
How would the things
you learned after this
activity help you
achieve any of your
development
objectives?
Did this activity help
you identify new
learning objectives?
