Reflecting on a child’s learning journey is a great way to celebrate growth, identify next steps, and continually improve practice. Mana’s Coach Sue makes this process simple, guiding you to critically reflect and evaluate each journey.
How Coach Sue Supports Reflection
Coach Sue analyses all the documents added to a journey and suggests the best-suited reflection model for your context. You can:
Use the suggested model for a structured reflection
📖 Read more: Reflection models used by Coach Sue
Or choose a different approach just by telling Coach Sue about your evaluation/reflection style so she can adjust her guidance accordingly.
Either way, Coach Sue’s prompts help you think deeply about the child’s progress, changes in plans, and any adjustments needed.
Two Key Ways to Reflect on a Journey
There are many ways to reflect, we recommend using one of the following:
Reflect after each planned experience
Recommended for long journeys (run for more than 3 months)
Helps you build on learnings and generate new plans as you go.
Reflect at the end of a journey
Recommended for short journeys (around a month)
Helps you review the entire journey and begin a new one.
Tip: The end of a journey is not about whether a child “meets” a goal. It’s about reviewing progress:
– How have they grown?
– Did plans work, change, or need changing?
– Is a goal still relevant, or should it be adjusted?
Step-by-Step: Reflect or Evaluate with Coach Sue
Follow this quick guide inside Mana to create a thoughtful, polished reflection:
1. Look for the Follow Ups in your previous document
You may find it in the following areas:
"Follow-Ups" section in any learning story
Within any Journey (where a plan is recommended as the next step).
Tip: Don’t see any suggestions? Go to View Journey → Select document → Follow Ups → Regenerate to refresh the suggestions.
2. Create using a suggestion or "Choose my own" → Reflection
3. Choose your writing mode (top right corner), we recommend "Write with Mana" and "Write with Sue" for Coach Sue’s guidance to reflect deeply.
4. Review and edit in Edit Mode
Edit the title and content directly.
Use the Magic Edit bar for extra suggestions.
Translate or fix grammar and spelling.
Upload supporting media (images, videos, PDFs).
5. Save and switch to Viewing Mode
Scroll through the Info, Coach Sue, and Follow-Ups panels for full context.
6. Return to the child’s Journey, you can now extend or complete the Journey based on your judgment.