FY026 Preparing for Success At University: Knowledge and Creativity

FY026 PREPARING FOR
SUCCESS AT
UNIVERSITY:
KNOWLEDGE AND
CREATIVITY

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Development as a learner.............................................................................................................3
Approach for future challenges...................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Reflection helps in critically evaluating the activities of an individual and the overall
learning or development that took place (Bandaranaike, 2018). In the present report, a reflective
statement will be prepared detaining the learning that was gathered from the module and the
overall change in approach in future.
MAIN BODY
Development as a learner
It is very important for every individual to evaluate themselves and analyse as a learner i.e.
what exactly I learned and which are the areas in which I need to develop myself further. There
are a variety of skills that I have developed through the completion of this module and this
basically can be categorised as follows:
 Communication Skills: Through this module I was able to engage in not only verbal
communication but I also understood how to utilise written communication techniques
(Hubenthal and Brudzinski, 2016). There were many group activities where I learned the
importance of presenting my point of view or opinion rather than just agreeing to
whatever others were saying and I also learnt the importance of using hand and body
movements while engaging in verbal communication. Further, I was able to develop
written style of communication as well where I had to prepare reports and documents
throughout the module which helped me understanding how to write professionally and
academically.
 Decision Making Skills: By decision making skills, I here imply with the capability to
take swift and firm decisions and solve the impending problems efficiently. I tend to over
think situations and ever decisions which always created losses for me because I lacked
the ability to take swift decisions in situation of emergency or crisis and then remain
adamant on such decisions rather than changing them swiftly. In this module there were
several occasions whether in activities or during assignment submissions etc. where I had
to take quick decision and trust on them which has helped me in overcoming that inbuilt
fear.
 People Management Skills: The people management skills mainly involve dealing with
people and understanding the importance of interacting with different people in different
manner. I was able to work immensely on the development of this skill because I had to
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