1. Writing in the Digital Age: Reflective Journal
April 16, 2018

2. Importance of Reflective Practice
CTL Reflective Writing Workshop
Introduced the concept of reflection
Discussed his personal feedback to students
Encourage Thinking
How to Think Alan Jacobs
Kahneman & Haidt – “relatively few people want to think”
Thinking troubles us
Thinking tires us
Thinking forces us out of familiar, comforting habits etc.
Speed of social media traffic
We use our intuitive thinking (fast) snap-judgements, instantaneous reads on a given situation, bias views
Conscious decision-making kicks in only when we perceive a problem, an inconsistency, an anomaly that needs to be addresses
System 1 elephant
System 2 rider that gently steers the elephant

3. Why
Provides a platform for student writing (little opportunity in clinical practice)
Encourages problem solving for issues or situations that occur during clinical practice.
Encourages student to be present during clinical practice.
Faculty understand the student process of learning.
Faculty able to troubleshoot any problems that arise during clinic.
Faculty is able to provide feedback to each student to support confidence and learning.
Students learn from the past and can make changes for future events.
Increase students knowledge, attitudes, behaviours, and skills in specific areas of performance.
Students interact with patients, classmates, faculty, staff, patient assessments and time management
Where we have been and where we want to go

4. How
Reflect once-a-week on clinical situations by answering one predetermined question from 5 different topics:
Learning
Self-Assessment
Communication
Professionalism
Emotion and Personal Growth
Refer to Reflective Journaling Tools

5. Samples for Students In beginning of semester students are given
5 or 6 Samples from previous students.

6. Reflective Journaling Tools

7. Where
BlackBoard
Recitation will be graded on consistency, content and appropriate answers to the Reflective Journal questions. 
Refer to the Rubric when answering questions and remember to write the question and then answer it.
You must complete all weekly journals to receive a grade of 10. This is an all or nothing assignment. If you do not complete all of the weekly journals, you will get 0. No partial credit given.
Time limit to write Sunday PM but one additional day to complete.

8. Grading and Feedback

9. Feedback (Sample)

10. Feedback (Sample)

11. Grading

12. Grading
If Below expectations I send it back to student without a grade.
If student doesn’t clearly answer or give examples of clinical situations I remind them in the feedback to follow the rubric for the next assignment.
10 points of final grade. (The effort is what I am looking for)

13. Observations
Many students answer the same question in each topic area…especially
Communication
What have you learned from interacting with others? (peers, supervisor, staff etc.
Emotional and Personal Growth
What did you learn about your relationship with your peers/supervisors
Students are Reflective Novice or Aware Student in rubric
By second semester some students have become Reflective Student.
Students balked at the assignments during the first semester but accepted it as routine for the second semester.
Students reflected on how the appreciated having a forum to discuss troubling situations and while I may not have changed a situation they felt “listened to”

14. Observations Need to look at data for further information
Actually Grade Them
Don’t want to discourage the writing process
Don’t want them to become frustrated
I want them to use this after school as a tool for clinical practice.