What? So what? Now what? Prompts for practice

Sentence starters to encourage reflection when writing about practice.

11/3/20241 min read

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What?

  • What happened?

  • I was asked to visit a person to complete an assessment because....

  • When I arrived to meet them I......

  • At first we spoke about .....

  • We then spoke about ways that we could help such as..

  • We discussed hopes and wishes and they identified that....

  • We agreed that....

  • We disagreed that.....

  • It was a difficult conversation because.....

  • I noticed that....

  • When it was time to leave we summarised that.....

  • My role in this situation was to.....

So what?

  • The conversation went well because....

  • The conversation was difficult because?

  • The conversation made me feel......

  • I considered that my own thoughts such as..... might have impacted on the discussion because....

  • I realised that I may have assumed that.....because...

  • I was able to see things differently because.....

  • The conversation made me realise that there were other things to consider such as....

  • I felt ......because.....

  • I reacted that way because.....

  • I realise that I might have said that because....

Now what?

  • This experienced helped me to see that next time I might approach things in a different way such as.....

  • Next time I think I could improve the conversation by.....

  • I feel that if I was in that situation again that I might.....

  • I think that next time I would feel able to do things differently because.....

  • It makes sense that next time I would....

  • I feel that I need to improve.....

  • I feel that this approach could help in the future because....

  • I realise that this experience has demonstrated that .... works well but that .... does not work so well....

  • Next time I would like to do things differently because....