Reflective Reflection

The incident happened at my workplace, which affected and changed my identity as a professional. I was doing my diploma in children’s services when I started my job as certificate 3 in Doveton college early learning centre four years ago. I completed my diploma successfully. After some time, I decided to start studying Bachelors in early childhood education. I started feeling a change in the behaviour of one of the teachers in the centre. We have three rooms in the early learning centre. I was a part of the kinder room and she was a teacher in the babies’ room. She started with picking on me. I took it as a learning opportunity and thought I might not be doing the right thing as I was new in the industry. So I kept her behaviour to me. As the

It a form of self-assessment and an essential component of ongoing learning and professional growth. However, “for reflection to genuinely be a lens into the world of practice, it is important that the nature of reflection be identified in such a way as to offer ways of questioning taken-for-granted assumptions and encouraging one to see his or her practice through others’ eyes” (Loughran, 2009). The following reflective paper will highlight my journey of developing my identity through the above critical incident using Brookfield’s lens of self-reflection and theoretical

The incident left me with no confidence till the end when I gathered all my strength and took a professional step against the workplace bullying. From being a very nervous colleague, I came up as a confident person, who was ready to fight for the justice. However, the biggest challenge to raise the issue was the teacher 's high position and expressive power. I overcome this challenge though my will power and growing knowledge and confidence as I kept completing my course and professional placements at other places. I regained my confidence with the very positive feedback about my professional role from the other staff at my workplace, families and my mentor teachers. However, as a professional, I still need to develop confidence to speak the right thing in front of the person doing wrong as still I can see the the hierarchy of the positions among