Building Connection between Theory and Practical through Reflective Report

This means that you reflect in order to learn and implement your understanding to the practical aspects of working. But you may find that reflective writing is not that much easy as students’ think of it because it requires some unique skills of elaborating things that has been learned by you in class and that you have experienced in real. Reflective report writing is given much importance in academic career because it enables the student to create connection between the things that they learned in class and the practical implementation of it with proper reasoning. Moreover, reflective report is given importance because the reflection that is given by you will aid as the source of evidence and reference in the future.

Facets to be considered

There are certain facets that students have to consider at the time of writing their reflective reports:

• Your reflective report would initiate by explaining what you did
• After this you need to explain the methods that you used to conduct that particular activity
• Then you must conduct an evaluation of your performance that is how well did you worked on your activity
• In order to describe your practical experience, you have to consider the things that have been taught to you in your course and how it was used by you at the time of practical execution
• You would also describe your strengths and weaknesses that is realized by you due to this activity
• The reflective report must end by highlighting the suggestions that you would use in future to enhance your learning and practical skills

Layout of the Report

Preliminaries

This is the starting section of the report which consists of following pages:

• Title
• Acknowledgement
• Abstract
• Table of Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Appendixes

Introduction

The reflective report writing starts from this section in which the students are expected to provide small description of the situation.

Personal Report

In this part of the report, the students have to provide a report of what happened and what they did in actual.

Reflection on Action

This is the most important section of reflective report because it provides detail of what was good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant, easy or difficult, successful or unsuccessful in the process of performing activity. The students also have to compare and contract their experiences in this section of the report.

Reflection on Teaching

This is the part in which students are expected to elaborate what they have been taught in their class and how strong is their understanding about the things learned by them.

Connections

Now this is very important section of the report because here students have to give evaluation of the practice by making use of their knowledge and experience.

Identification of Gaps

Here the students provide description of the gaps if any present in their knowledge along with the explanation through which it could be filled.

Conclusion

All the facets that are discussed in the report are summarized over here just like a summary so that reader can gain the overview of the complete report.