Reflective Practice

At SAE, we have designed our curriculum to develop and assess your capabilities in three, interlinked domains:

• Proficiency – the intellectual, creative, and technical tools of your trade and the tangible output of their use.
• Process – the ways in which you go about using and reflecting on these tools to create things of high quality that meet the needs of your target audience.
• Person – the transferable skills that make you better at working with other people in creative media.

We refer to this as the 3Ps. Proficiency, process, and person each have their own set of skills, knowledge, and behaviours that you will develop and practice and which form an integral part of our holistic assessment framework.

Each week you will be asked to reflect upon each of the 3Ps in relation to the work undertaken in class. Reflective practice helps to bring unconscious aspects of experience into conscious awareness. By bringing these aspects of experience to the conscious mind, we can begin to make choices about what attitudes, practices and values we should adopt.

Professional creative media practitioners do this frequently through a range of methods including keeping journals, creating blogs and discussing their practice with others.

There are simple questions that you can use to become a reflective practitioner:·

• What feedback was I given this week?
• What did I learn from this week’s class?
• What do I need to brush up on?
• What additional learning do I need?
• What are my next tasks?

You’ll use these questions every week to reflect on each of the 3Ps in your after class activities.

You will record your reflections in your Learning Journal. Students are expected to routinely share their documented reflections in class and receive feedback from their peers and Lecturers.

Of course, the final, and most vital parts of reflective practice include making adjustments to improve your practice and the maintenance of the reflection process as an ongoing activity.