In professional fields that continually change due to the career environment and participants, incorporating reflective practice is a great way to engage in the continuous learning process. Reflective practice is a great source of personal improvement and development to improve your profession. This form of practice is a great way to reflect on your skills, actions and experiences that you have gained throughout your professional career. In regards to education, reflective practice is more oriented towards the educator's teaching methods and what can be learned and used to meet the needs of the student. Along with testable theories, student consideration and the procedures used are taken into account. Typically, “the terms reflective thinking, critical thinking, reflective judgment, and critical reflection have each been used to define a way of thinking that accepts uncertainty and recognizes dilemmas, placing less significance on the role of the self in the reflective process” (294) . To achieve best practices of reflection we must refrain from “habits of mind, prejudices, and assumptions that tend to close off new ways of perceiving and interpreting our experiences (296). According to Barbara Larrive, a teacher must be able to be flexible with the changing aspects of society and the challenges presented to them. For a person to be able to do this, reflection on previous work and processes must be viewed critically and reflected upon (293-294). The process of reflection is most helpful when teachers are able to engage in critical reflection and continue with ongoing discovery, so that they become trapped in “unexamined judgments, interpretations, assumptions and expectations… halfway through the paper…” . .a series of phases. The first phase would be the examination phase, where you question yourself and look for change. Then the struggle phase in which the ideas of fear clash with the thought of realization is far away. Finally, the perpetually changing phase of personal discovery leads to transformation (305). Since there is no straight line to achieving critical reflexivity for educational purposes, the best option to achieve it would be with personal growth and self-reflection. . There is no standard template, so to speak, for critically reflecting on one's practice, however the best option would be to remain free from judgment and bias and remain productive at all times. References Larrivee, Barbara. “Transforming teaching practice: Becoming a critically reflective teacher.” Reflective Practice 1.3 (2000): 293-307. Network. May 20 2014.