Unit 304 Reflection

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UNIT 304 REFLECT ON AND DEVELOP PRACTICE K3P222 Why reflection on practice and evaluation of personal effectiveness is important. Reflective practice enables you to think about how you work in all areas of your setting as above. It enables you to look at how you handle situations, how you conduct yourself and the relationships you have, and where possible make changes to improve. Personal effectiveness is looking at how effective you are in your job, you can analsye your strengths and weaknesses and where possible gain new skills and opportunities to help sill any gaps you may have with regards to your practice. Within my setting I constantly reflect on how I work and try to think of ways that I can improve or different strategies that may improve my practice. This will then benefit myself, my colleagues, the children, the parents and carers within my setting. K3D223 How learning through reflection can increase professional knowledge and skills As a childcare practitioner we have a professional duty to reflect on our practice and to develop it to ensure we provide the best for our children and their families. Every day new and exciting ideas come along and practices within childcare change, that is why it is important to keep up to date with what is going on and evaluate your own knowledge and skills against what is best practice. Reading articles, keeping up to date with training and being aware of the national standards and legislation will ensure that you remain competent and well informed, this will help you to provide the best care to your children as you can. It will also increase your confidence as you will feel that what you deliver in your setting is good practice. In turn this will enhance your self esteem because you feel good about yourself. Within my role I try to
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