How Does Writing Reflections Help The Learner's Learning?

    Writing reflections is merely a process, akin to a process of 'taking notes'. What is of utmost importance the reflective process after the learning stage. Reflections helps to facilitate the learners' learning as it builds on the prior knowledge of students, question about the information they receive, aids them in understanding the key points of a particular topic and providing their own ideas, thoughts and analysis on it. All that would then bring about a pretty effective learning outcomes. Assuming without the reflective stage, learners may then be very accustomed to mere absorbing of content or information and passively taking it as it is delivered to them, without engaging their active minds to dwell upon it, or to truly comprehend what they have learnt. 

    

    
    Reflections aid the learners in drawing the link between recent learning experiences and earlier ones so as to promote a more complicated and complemental intellectual conception. That would  enable learners to look for commonalities and differences , looking beyond the elements laid out on the surface, this could well foster higher order thinking skills. Besides, by doing reflections, learners are able to engage in a self enquiry process to examine what they have learnt. Learners would be able to keep record of their learning process while doing reflection, to ensure that meaningful learning takes place.

    Through reflecting, learners are able to think back on a particular scenario, ponder over it and using the knowledge learnt to deal with situations in future. 

    All in all, writing reflections enables students to recall in detail the learning process and the feelings involved, following the evaluation and analysis of the knowledge or experiential learning outcomes which would give rise to a conclusion. In which, this well thought conclusion with fresh insights would help the learners to better internalize what they have learnt, into lifelong learning process