Graham Gibb's Reflective Model - Coursework Example

The first part: - ‘description’, entails the description of the action/event as pertaining to the person’s experience. Here it is to do with examinations either CATS or Final term exams. Exams are (a set/sets of) questions formulated by teachers, internally or externally, that are given to the students according to their class placement this with the aim of evaluating them at a level playing field. Here I participated in both types of exams finishing with the end term final exams. The second part: - ‘feelings’, entails the reactions and or feelings that are experienced at the particular moment of performing the specific event; this being the sitting of the exams.

I was a little tense, not quite yet composed but was confident and ready for the paper. This was to be contributed to by my studying pattern and system throughout the school term. The third part: - ‘evaluation’, entails the nature of the experience one has during the event this being either good or bad. It has consequential results on the resultant outcome of the exams. During the taking of my exam, thoughts of family issues interrupted and blocked my flow of thinking. For some time I was quite dazed and lost valuable time trapped in my own thoughts.

The experience was negative due to the kind of issues present in my family life (Jasper, 2003, p 81). The forth part: - ‘analysis’, entails the kind of rational outcome that one makes of the experience that one underwent through during the performance of the specific event i.e. what one makes sense of out of the situation occurring. Due to the family issues, my mental pattern was disrupted, with focus shifting from the current issue at hand; final exam, to external but. The researcher of this coursework discusses the reflection in the Education system, where is the presence of different by symbiotically related events that combine to produce an enabling and beneficial environment in which the student can interact successfully.

This usually include: - educational materials, technologies available to enhance learning, cultural events, trips and sporting events and also examinations in the form of CATS (Continuous Assessment Tests) and final semester exams. The researcher focuses on the event of exams and examination in the schooling system. This is an event that is continuous throughout the study lives of students, it is present in all school terms of the year. Exams entail the writing of essays or sit-in-cats or end term exams.

The model the researcher will be using in his study is Graham Gibb’s Reflective model. It uses reflection based on an ‘on- action approach’ the incident of reflection having been chosen and already experienced. This model entails a ‘cyclic structural flow’ of events that exhibits on ongoing event. The researcher will concentrate on the end term final examinations paper that he undertook in during the year. The parts that were discussed in his research were the following: ‘description’ stage, 'feelings' stage, 'evaluation', ‘analysis’, ‘conclusion’ and 'action plan', each of them were analyzed in details.

The researcher concluds then as a student, he would enroll for some counseling sessions either in school or privately and try to deal with an issue explored at a time.