Demonstrate an Understanding of Critical Reflection as a Means of Self-evaluation to Support Personal: Clinical Teaching for Health Professionals Essay, GU, Singapore

Aim:

The aim of this assignment is to give you an opportunity to demonstrate an understanding of critical reflection as a means of self-evaluation to support personal and professional growth as a clinical teacher.

Instructions:

DESCRIPTION:

For this task, you are required to write a 1500 word reflective essay. In your essay you need to:

1. apply the Gibbs Reflective Cycle to reflect on a time when you facilitated a clinical teaching activity for peers, students, patients, or others in the working environment, referring to literature related to learning, teaching, assessment, evaluation, and feedback
2. Provide recommendations for practice and professional development.

TASK INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Reflect on a time when you facilitated a clinical teaching activity for peers, students, patients, or others in the working environment.
2. Provide a brief introduction outlining the clinical teaching experience you are using as a basis for this reflection.
3. Use the following stages of Gibbs’ reflective cycle to discuss this experience:
   
   Description- Describe what happened.
   Feelings – Analyse your thoughts and feelings during and after the experience. Relate these to relevant literature.
   Evaluation – What were the positive and negative outcomes in the situation?
   Analysis – Highlight the factors involved in the situation
   Conclusion – Discuss what else you and/or others could have done
   Action Plan – Discuss what would you do if the situation arose again
   Summary – This should summarise your essay, drawing in already stated and discussed elements to a succinct point.
4. Your reflection should be supported throughout by scholarly literature to demonstrate:

• An understanding of educational theory, models, and principles by including a discussion of how these were applied.
• How the theories you applied in your teaching aligned with the strategies you used to deliver the teaching session.
• Understanding of the role of assessment, evaluation, and feedback in the clinical teaching role