Reflective Writing Summary: Understanding Your Professional Growth

Connecting ideas, thoughts, and questions to course learning

In your writing, connect your ideas, thoughts, and questions to course learning, and with specific attention to the framework . When appropriate:

· Compare/contrast ideas with Flight: Alberta's Early Learning and Care Framework.

· Use course readings to support and/or challenge opinions, speculations, and conclusions.

· Describe and highlight thoughts, and insights .

· Make connections between course concepts and work experiences (be sure to remain professional when sharing experiences that you disclose in your written work).

· In the spirit of learning, ask questions, share ideas that are confusing, difficult, insightful, meaningful and consider why.

· Include a quote and explain how the quote is meaningful to your emerging ideas and learning.

· With supporting evidence, offer alternative interpretations and/or different perspectives.

Topic Two - In 1,000–1,500 words, consider: Reflective Writing Summary

As a final summary and reflective task, you will be writing your instructor a report about your learning through completing this reflective writing assignment. Begin with the following reading and marking task to prepare for the written entry.

Reading and Marking Task:

Read through all your previous reflective writing assignments.

1. Identify five ( passages that seem most significant to you as a learner in this course. You might choose an entry that was written when you were thinking at your deepest level, discovering something amazing and revealing (e.g., an “aha moment”), significant quotes, and/or when you were experiencing confusion or struggling with an idea that was only partially formed. Maybe you went beyond the basic discussion and readings to come up with an original idea. The five passages should be as varied as possible and allow you to provide a full portrait of your learning throughout the course.

2. In your Reflective Writing Summary, identify the five passages (copy and paste from previous assignment Word documents into this assignment Word document). Think about and describe why you chose each of the five passages and what these passages have meant for your professional growth.

3. Finally, explain: What do the five passages tell about who you are as a learner, reflective thinker, and writer?