This report is about the use, advantages and disadvantages of using reflective journal.

1. activity!

2. reflective
Journal
Camille Bagasan
Brixie Cappal

3. “Keeping a journal is a humbling process. You rely on your
senses, your impressions and you purposely record your
experiences as vividly, as playfully, and as creatively as you can.
It is a learning process in which you are the learner and the one
who teaches.‘”
(Holly, 1991)

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Purpose
A place to express emotions, make
judgements, or form hypotheses
It’s not a part of the child’s file but
the personal property of the writer
A healthy outlet for emotions

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Uses
Express emotions or questions, let off “steam”, express
anger, frustration, or elation, express worry concerning
a child or child’s family, a coworker, supervisor, or self
For self-examination of attitudes, biases, or prejudices
Pose theories about child’s behavior that are from
intuition
Explore remedies, strategies, advantages,
disadvantages of possible solutions
and

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1. External View - an opportunity
to explore the view that others
see and compare it to the inner
and deeper meaning
2. Quick Check - can be place for
a cursory overview of
performance, feelings, or
events of the day without
getting into deep analysis
3. See Changes - can help us notice changes about thinking and attitudes
4. Close Examination - can be a private place to self-examine a
troublesome area, an attitude toward a child or a coworker, a creeping
doubt about one's ability, or a prejudice that has come into one's
consciousness can be closely examined in a journal

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5. Done Repeatedly - brings the teacher to inward examination again and
again whether in writing or in thinking
6. Reflection Becomes A Memory - looking internally through the RJ to
examine values, beliefs and feelings also forms memories
Reflection is more than just day-dreaming,
it can be a life-changing experience 

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Advantages
An outlet for emotions
A vehicle to work through theories, and
clarify and expand thinking
A record of professional development

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Disadvantages
A reflective journal is not as useful for the child’s assessment
of development because:
Written after the event when facts are lost
Highly inferential and emotionally based
Not comprehensive in recording information
remembered on each and every child, only
those who stand out

11. Development of Independence
Attachment
Stranger Anxiety
Separation Anxiety

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John Bowlby’s
Attachment Theory
• children come into the world
biologically pre-programmed
to form attachments with
others
• Infants produce innate ‘social
releaser’ behaviors that
stimulate innate caregiving
responses from adults
• the determinant of
attachment is not food but
care and responsiveness

13. Attachment Theory
• a child would initially form only one primary attachment
3 Key Propositions!
1. when children are raised with confidence that their primary caregiver will be
available to them, they are less likely to experience fear than those who are
raised without such conviction
2. this confidence is forged during a critical period of development, during the
years of infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and that the expectations that are
formed during that period tend to remain relatively unchanged for the rest of
the person's life
3. these expectations that are formed are directly tied to actual experience
(children develop expectations that their caregivers will be responsive to their
needs because, in their experience, their caregivers have been responsive in the
past)

14. Attachment Theory
Bowlby believed that there are four distinguishing characteristics of
attachment:
Proximity Maintenance - The desire to be near the people we are
attached to.
Safe Haven - Returning to the attachment figure for comfort and safety in
the face of a fear or threat.
Secure Base - The attachment figure acts as a base of security from which
the child can explore the surrounding environment.
Separation Distress - Anxiety that occurs in the absence of the
attachment figure.

16. Preparation for Entering
Programs and Schools
Gather information from the family
Personal meetings and home visits
Visit the school/open houses
Formal family orientation

17. Arrivals and Departures
Building trust
Child orientation
Comfortable arrivals and departures
Handling separation anxieties

18. Signs of Separation Difficulties
Eating
Sleeping
Toileting
Participation
Social interaction
Acting out

19. Helping all children with separation and
school adjustment
Children with special needs
Diverse Cultures
Helping Professionals

20. Sample Diary or Journal Account
9/10
I’m so excited about the first day of
school. I wonder if having so many
boys in the class will affect behavior
and class management? Hey– do I
expect a difference? I guess I do! How
can I keep my “active boys” bias from
influencing what I see? Maybe these
new methods of recording will help. I
think I’ll look for some things to read
about sex differences and behavior.

21. 9/13
I heard Mary and Ted next door
talking about my new room
arrangement breaking down the
barrier between blocks and dramatic
play. Do I let blocks go in the “oven”
Or in purses and brief cases? What
about high heels and cowboy boots in
the block area? We’ll see!

22. Sample Parental Information Form