The word reflective or reflection is derived from the word reflect. The Oxford dictionary meaning of reflect is “to think carefully and deeply about something”. The word “reflective” is an adjective used to describe the kind of report or writing you are required to submit for your NVQ. Therefore a reflective account can be understood as a real or true story of how you have carried out an activity at work or an action you took in the past and why you took the action.
If you were at a celebration on the new year’s eve for 2009 and you were asked you to write a reflective account on what it was like, you will try to remember the night and may start by saying it happened that I was at a party on this occasion, it was a glorious night with all sorts of lovely lightings and so on, the style of writing is in the past and it is specific to the question. That’s the same way your NVQ reflections should be.
It can be difficult to know what to write if you are not given a question or a topic; for example some candidates say I need to write a reflective account for HSC22, but this unit has 3 elements and in most cases what their assessor might have told them to do is to reflect on how they have handled an accident or emergency situation which is HSC22c. This suggests that a reflective account can be written for any unit within the NVQ or any element within a unit to prove that you understand what to do in a particular situation and why you are doing it in a certain way which should be in line with your organisational policies and procedures.
If you are asked to write a reflective account and you are not given a question or a topic you should boldly ask your assessor this question politely – “Please could you tell me what my reflective account should be about?” with this question your assessor will be able to give you areas of concentration on the specific topic you are to write about. Continue reading »
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