Reflective Journals are to review your personal and life experiences to each developmental period.  This is a time of free writing.  There is no right or wrong answer, but to receive any points on this assignment each journal entry must be ON TIME and at least 100 WORDS.
Each week you will receive 20 points for your journal entry.  There are a total of 8 weeks of journal entries for a total of 160 points.
What to write?
First write a brief summary of the contents of a developmental period. Then reflect upon these activities- record your own thoughts, ideas, responses and reactions to any of the above activities. Make notes about concepts, questions you have, and any confusion that may arise. Use the journal to explore possible solutions to problems being raised in class or alternative activities to the ones presented in class. Record new insights and problem solving strategies realized during discussions with fellow students and instructors. The journal reflects your own thoughts and ideas. Be as original and critical (constructive) as you can.

How to write?
You should use whatever style you are comfortable with as long as it is clearly written and sensible, so you can pick it up next year and be able to understand it. Journal entries must be a response to the developmental period in which you are writing the journal.

A reflective journal is a piece of writing which allows students to record thoughts and insights about their own learning experience. It encourages students to review and consolidate learning, to evaluate performance, to plan future learning based on past learning experience. In such a way, students become capable to take charge of their own learning, and eventually to develop into independent lifelong learners.
Write, record
Describe the situation (the course, the context)
Who was involved with the situation?
What did they have to do with the situation?
Reflect, think about
What are your reactions?
What are your feelings?
What are the good and the bad aspects of the situation?
What you have learned?
Analyze, explain, gain insight
What was really going on?
What sense can you make of the situation?
Can you integrate theory into the experience/situation?
Can you demonstrate an improved awareness and self-development because of the situation?
Conclusions
What can be concluded in a general and specific sense from this situation/experience and the analyses you have undertaken?
Personal action plan
What are you going to do differently in this type of situation next time?
What steps are you going to take on the basis of what you have learned?



I HAVE LISTED 5 TO WRITE ABOUT ABOVE. PRE-NATAL, INFANCY, EARLY CHILDHOOD, MIDDLE/LATE CHILDHOOD, AND ADOLESCENT.