Element 9

• Reflective modes


  Stages of learning something new
• Kolb Stages of learning

  1. Concrete experience

  2. Reflective observation

  3. Abstract conceptualisation

  4. Active experimentation
• Real life is put at the centre of the model
• Experiential learning involves being put in a new situation and realising you need to develop yourself
• Kolb learning styles

  • Accommodating
  • Diverging
  • Converging
  • Assimilating
• Kolb Accommodating learning style

  Practical, hands-on, information is from the world around them and is applied to day-to-day lives
• Kolb Diverging learning style

  Information gained through watching, imagination used to solve problems, and creative projects
• Kolb Converging learning style

  Practical and like to apply ideas to real life
• Kolb Assimilating learning style

  Like clear explanations and time to think, organise information logically
• Kolb believes that you want to think and feel at the same time or do and which gives us the combinations
• Gibbs reflective cycle

  • Description
  • Feelings
  • Evaluation
  • Analysis
  • Conclusion
  • Action plan
• Gibbs reflective cycle was developed by a sociologist in 1988
• Gibbs reflective cycle is a learning method based on real-life experiences
• Gibbs reflective cycle separates description of the experience and feelings
• Feelings are originated although they add dimension
• Boud, Kough and Walkers reflective model- Behaviour, ideas and feelings from an experience. Pay attention to positive/negative emotions. Reflecting helps us to focus on immediate reaction.
• Boud, Kough and Walker-1.Experience

  2.Reflective process

  3.Outcomes