Lombos Avenue, San Isidro, Parañaque City

Senior High School Department

Learning Journal Guidelines

What is a learning journal?
A learning journal is a collection of notes, observations, thoughts and other relevant materials built‐up over a period of
time and maybe a result of a period of study, learning and/or working experience. Its purpose is to enhance your learning
through the process of writing and thinking about your learning experiences. Your learning journal is personal to you and
will reflect your personality, preferences and experiences.

Why use a learning journal?

To provide a “live” picture of your growing understanding of a subject experience
To demonstrate how your learning is developing
To keep a record of your thoughts and ideas throughout your experiences
To help you identify your strengths, areas for improvement and preferences in learning

A learning journal helps you to be reflective about your learning, this mean that your journal should not be a purely
descriptive account of what you did but an opportunity to communicate your thinking process: how and why you did
what you did, and what you know think about what you did.

1 PATTS College of Aeronautics – Senior High School Department Learning Journal

Structuring your learning journal
Your learning journal may be called several different things: a learning log, a fieldwork diary or personal development
planner. Different subject areas may ask you to focus on different aspects of your experience and may have different
formats.

What is reflective learning?

Reflective learning is a learned process that requires time and practice. It is an active process: involving thinking through
the issues yourself, asking questions and seeking out relevant information to aid your understanding. Reflective learning
works best when you think about what you are doing before, during and after your learning experience. Reflective
learning is therefore not only about recognizing your something new. It is also about seeing reality in a new way.

Reflection is an important skill to develop and requires you to think about how you are personally relating to what is
happening in the workshop or in your work.

The benefits of developing your skills in reflective learning

Reflective learners are more likely to develop a deeper understanding of their subject and to achieve higher grades as a
result. Reflective learners tend to:
Be motivated, know what they are trying to achieve and why
Be pro-active in extending their understanding of new topics and subjects
Use their existing knowledge to help them to develop their understanding of new ideas
Understand new concepts by relating them to their previous experiences
Understand that additional research and reading widely will improve their understanding
Develop their learning and thinking by building on the critical evaluation of their previous learning experiences
Be self-aware, able to identify, explain and address their own strengths and weaknesses

Content of your learning journal

A learning journal should focus on your personal responses, reactions and reflections to new ideas or new ways of thinking
about a subject that you have been introduced through:
Workshops, seminars, training sessions
Research and reading including any visual research including
television, film and internet
Conversations and discussions with other students, your instructor, adviser, coach and others
Significant experiences in the classroom/workplace

2 PATTS College of Aeronautics – Senior High School Department Learning Journal

Process of Reflective Learning
What do I think about this issue/topic/experience?
Explore my understanding, perceptions and ideas
Question my assumptions
Identify anything confusing or difficult to understand
What more do I need to know to help my understanding
Develop and refine my ideas and beliefs
Identify, locate and interpret relevant information and resources
How can I use this experience to improve my learning, thinking, and working?
What would I do differently next time?

What should you write about?

What you think about issues discussed at the learning activity?
Any flashes of inspiration you had
What you understand so far?
What you find puzzling, difficult or contradictory?
How can you reach a better understanding?
What do you need to know more about, and how can you go about finding out more?
What resources have helped you to understand and/or been interesting to use?
How do you feel about the way you have approached the subject/topic so far?
What new knowledge, skills or understanding have you gained during the process of writing your journal?
Regarding your long term development;
Have you changed your opinions or values during the discussion/experience?
How can you improve your learning, thinking and working in the future?
Have you identified the next step for your development?

References
State Government of Victoria, Australia © 2017
Study Skills Advice Sheet, University of Worcester, revised August 2007
Free Resources @ www.businessballs.com – Alan Chapman 2006

3 PATTS College of Aeronautics – Senior High School Department Learning Journal

 Lombos Avenue, San Isidro, Parañaque City
Senior High School Department

Learning Journal for Human Error

TITLE OF TOPIC/LESSON

Student’s Name: Lopez, John Christian A.

Date Submitted: March 9, 2019

TOPIC/IDEA/ I STILL WANT TO

I ALREADY KNEW… I LEARNED… REFLECTION
EXPERIENCE KNOW…
Aviation safety These are affected by Most of the accidents Other ways to ensure the We should carefully
several factors that happens in aviation safety of the passenges, think of our actions
are caused by human crew, and etc. because it may have
error consequences. “You are
responsible for what you
do and don’t do”

4 PATTS College of Aeronautics – Senior High School Department Learning Journal

Human Psychology Study of the mind and There are different types How can we possibly We should take good
behavior of psychology that utilize the study of the care of ourselves not just
affects human error they different aspects of physically but also
are as follows; Clinical, psychology in reducing mentally and emotionally
Experimental, human errors occuring in such as getting enough
Organizational, and the workplace sleep and taking breaks
Educational
Anthropometrics I haven’t heard of Anthropometrics is the How can we use We shouldn’t take
anthropometrics before study of the dimensions anthropometrics in hiring aviation lightly we
the discussion. and abilities of the personnels should also take into
human body. account the small these
that may help us perform
our best such as knowing
you strengths and
weaknesses
DirtyDozen I haven’t heard of the These are the 12 How can we avoid the We should always stay
dirtydozen before the common causes of dirty dozen from focus, being distracted
discussion. mistakes in the affecting our even just for a second
workplace thus named performance when may cause grave danger
the “Dirty Dozen” working
Human Factor These are the factors that How the human factors How to make sure that We should always
affect the human greatly affect our work these human factor wont remain healthy so that we
performance, thinking, leading to poor hinder us from giving our may be able to give our
behavior, and etc. performance or mistakes best in our work all in doing our work
(NOTE: YOU MAY INSERT ADDITIONAL LINES IF NECESSARY)

5 PATTS College of Aeronautics – Senior High School Department Learning Journal

Over-all Reflection (Highlight the application of what you have learned)
How can you improve your learning, thinking and working in the future? Have you identified the next step for your development?

Having an opportunity to study in school is not given to everybody so as a student I should be responsible in
all of my studies so that I can develop and empower myself to help the future of our modern world. Learning is a
process that does not only take place in universities and schools but everywhere that should we all acknowledge so
that we will be more well rounded individual that we can use in our works in the near future and in our daily living.
Setting a goal is very simple for anybody but having a right character towards it is very hard hard for me that I
learned through this slecture. Perseverance is one key in lifethat is very relevant if we want to reach the mountain
of our dreams so even though how much rough the path we would have to go through before we reach our dream,
our journey would give is necessary information and experience to become the person and competent professional
that we always wanted to be.

Student’s Comment/s and Suggestion/s

Innovative solutions is the key for the ever growing problems in our modern world that takes place everywhere and
just waiting to be discovered in the corner of vast possibilities of anyone that is deserving. Conventional way of
teaching is not the answer for the changing world that we should acknowledge as soon as possible if we want to
keep pace with the changing world that our very own professor in this subject is dedicated to work with, that
challenges me as his student to become a best and versatile enough to meet the standards of our modern world. I
only wish that his passion in educating and empowering students would never end because that kind of professor is
very rare to find with a unique motive and ambition.

Instructor/Professor’s Feedback

6 PATTS College of Aeronautics – Senior High School Department Learning Journal