A leadership reflective learning journal is an opportunity to reflect on what you are learning and to think critically about your learning. Reflection is the act of analyzing your actions, decisions, or products by focusing on what you did or are doing and learning lessons that can be applied to new situations. It requires an awareness of what information you perceive and how you process that information.
Reflective practice involves thinking about and critically analyzing your actions with the goal of improving your change and leadership practice. Engaging in reflective practice invites you to assume the perspective of an external observer in order to identify the assumptions and feelings underlying your practice and then to speculate about how these assumptions and feelings affect practice.
Reflection is a key leadership skill that you will practice throughout the course. The course will include reflective questions to stimulate your thinking process around how to transfer your theoretical learning into your climate adaptation practice. Journal excerpts of your reflections will be submitted to your instructor according to the due date in the activities schedule.
As a starting point, your foundational entries could include:
- Personal vision, values and learning goals connected to climate action
- Critical learning from your experience and studies so far
- Critical learning from your reading and understanding of the untapped opportunities to incorporate Indigenous perspectives on leadership and climate adaptation into your climate adaptation practice
- Questions you have for yourself, your learning, or your evolving leadership practice
- Track your areas of strength (backed by evidence) and areas in which you wish to develop capability
- Goals for learning and for supporting your own effectiveness as a climate action change maker and change leader practitioner
- As a result of this course, changes in your leadership approach that you anticipate making
- In addition, specific LJS (learning journal submissions) will be identified following specific learning activities.
Instructions:
Selected journal excerpts to be posted in the discussion forum, and published as blog posts in three installments during the course of the 10 weeks. Check the activities schedule for blog posting due dates.
Requirements:
Each post must be submitted as:
- A forum post (no more than 500 words) that provides an excerpt from your reflective journal;
- All external sources must be acknowledged using the currently accepted APA format for in-text citations and references;
- The forum post must be submitted on or before the due date in the activities schedule.
Assessment Criteria:
- Examine the role of reconciliation as a component of climate adaptation and low carbon resilience. Specifically, identify and integrate reliable and accurate sources for alternative perspectives in leadership such as Indigenous leadership, climate adaptation, and resilience; (learning outcome: 1.3);
- Discern and describe personal leadership style, strengths, and limitations (learning outcome 4.1);
- Recognize multiple identities, experiences, and biases and how these can affect the ability to lead (learning outcome 4.2);
- Monitor and reflect on self-awareness, self-confidence, and perseverance to improve professional practice and policies. (learning outcome 6.1).
See: MACAL Blog Assessment Rubric
Weight: 10%
Upload to the appropriate discussion forum:
Excerpt 1: Forum for Reflective Learning Journal (Individual)
Excerpt 2: Forum for Reflective Learning Journal (Individual)
Excerpt 3: Forum for Reflective Learning Journal (Individual)