This outline may be used as part of a formal Performance Management process to guide a programme of self-review. (Variously called: "Critical", or "Reflective" review.)

Focus Issues – The table below should be completed during preliminary discussions with your Line Manager. You should select no more than one, or two Focus Issues in any single Review Period. (A Review Period" may be any nominated time period from a few weeks to a full school year.)

Based on material at: http://www.qub.ac.uk/mgt/itsoc/proj/learnlog.html

Many organisations encourage their workers, individually and in teams, to use quality management techniques to continually improve the quality of their work. Two key features of quality management are:

• keeping notes (eg a diary, or personal journal) that enable you to judge quality, and
• reflecting on what went right or wrong, in order to work out how to improve quality in the future.

Every month, or so, look over your notes in private, and reflect on the learning processes you have gone through. Write brief notes during the reflection process:

Did something go well?
Then what did you learn from it? How can you build upon it?
Then what did you learn from it? How can you build upon it?

 

Did something go badly?
Then exactly what went wrong? How can you fix it, overcome difficulties, and improve upon it?

 

Have you addressed your Focus Issues?
Does it cover all cases, or are there alternatives? What new questions have been raised?

 

Have your ideas changed?
If so, why? Can you now synthesise different ideas and strategies?

 

What support do you need in order to resolve these issues?
Professional development? Talking with a mentor? Additional resources?

Following the personal Reflective Review you should make arrangements with your Line Manager to discuss matters raised during the process and consider strategies for addressing unresolved issues.

Download Reflective Review Outline in Word 6.0 format

"Reflective Review" Links ...

http://www.sar.bolton.ac.uk/ltl/stud_hdbk/critical_reflective_review.htm
http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/SE/Pathways.html
http://www.ntu.ac.uk/sds/polproc/appraise.html
http://www.qub.ac.uk/mgt/itsoc/proj/learnlog.html

Sample Form to be used in association in the "Reflective Review" process:

Personal Critical Reflective Review Form       NAME: _______________________

Line Manager: ______________________                                          Date: ___________________

 

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Download Sample Reflective Review Form in Word 6.0 format.

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