Impact of Professional Development on Teachers

This assignment delves into the crucial role of professional development in shaping effective teaching practices. It analyzes various types of professional development opportunities available to educators, investigates their influence on teacher knowledge, skills, and attitudes, and explores the correlation between professional development participation and improved student outcomes.

Personal and Professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Self-managed learning approaches evaluation.................................................................1
1.2 Techniques that encourage lifelong learning....................................................................2
1.3 Evaluate the benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and organisation.........3
4.1 Solution at work base area................................................................................................4
4.2 Communicate in several styles and their suitable method................................................5
4.3 Analyse impressive time management strategies.............................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
2.1 Create a CV .....................................................................................................................7
2.2 Identify personal improvement requirement and methods to reach them........................8
2.3 Determine evolution opportunities to achieve present and upcoming requirements.......8
2.4 Personal and professional development plan...................................................................9
3.1 Procedure and practices development plan implementation..........................................10
3.2 Evolution activities as planned.......................................................................................11
3.3 Own learning against original goals and objectives.......................................................11
3.4 Modification of development plan according evolution and responses.........................12
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCE.................................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
The important aspect of professional and personal development rely on self education and
self managed learning procedure. In case of special characteristic and traits in individual's
personality and talent, self education and learning management become cause of personal and
professional development and take person on heights of achievement. Self managed learning
focuses on unique and several different methods of education that create a long term and never
lasting technique of learning for professional as well as individual (Forte and Flores, 2014).
In this following report, analysis of self managed learning approaches is done and its
impact on development process and how it benefit and profit. It overlook purpose and objectives
of this learning and development and evaluate strategies and plans to examine personal and
professional development. Distinguishing own improvement requirement and practices which are
needed to reach them. Also it will study opportunities of personal and professional development
according present and future requirement.
TASK 1
1.1 Self-managed learning approaches evaluation
A person could educate and lesson himself through various processes and techniques
such as research projects assigned by their college professors that requires a whole study of
content or topic for which individual have to analysis depth of information. Except these through
online learning, evaluation of different strategies and plans of management and learning from
others experiences etc. This life long lesson encourage and stimulate an individual like me and
help and motivate in development and self education and create a better impact.
There are various methods and technologies that can build a lifelong learning and
development that encourage person to develop and grow (Lumpe, 2012). Here are some possible
ways that always are helpful:
Visionary Approach -
By visionary approach, individual can recognise upcoming opportunities and threats that
can barrier his development and enable him to consider his strengths and future trends in order to
his growth. This can be done by SWOT analysis of personal and professional matters.
Learning styles -

Learning style includes all technologies and methods that facilitates a person to develop
and education by their own (Gumus, 2011).
 New Media -
New Media contains mass amount of information that offer large number of data to an
individual. It include blogs, journals, books, website, online education, social media, education
through online application and distance education, streaming videos and audio and many choice
that is offered by internet.
 Discussions and Seminar -
A person can learn by seminar, discussions and conferences. It is an effective methods as
it offer to share your knowledge and learn other information and knowledge by communicating
and discussing over a subject.
These also can be achieved by the visionary, auditory and kinaesthetic learner styles
which aid in practices the lessons which is lean red in the seminars and conferences. The
motivational, inspirational and informational videos, listening speech of revolutionary or role
celeb as well executing them in real life are also considered under effective techniques.
1.2 Techniques that encourage lifelong learning
Lifelong learnings help an individual to learn and develop as a professional level.
Through identifying and understanding threats, weakness, strength and future opportunities and
trends an individual can change himself as a professional person and gain ocean of knowledge.
SWOT Analysis
My strength are friendly nature, good communication skills, versatile personality, quick
learning personality and hard working spirit. Well person who has good strengths, surly have
weakness. My weakness are barrier in my path of success that include quickly dozed off from
same work, too much sleep, can't handle extra pressure. My opportunities is my curiosity and
passion for further education and studies and curiosity to explore more that can take me heights
of achievement in future and my threats are recession and money.
Self Reflective Learning -
Self respective learning helps in understanding own perspectives, concepts, opinions,
judgements and plan of action that a person likely take in a certain method and be honest for that.
This help me to judge my decisions that I have taken in my life and consider my experience
socially and professionally.

Individual Strategy -
To develop my basic knowledge and talents, reading more and more information such as
newspapers, magazines, books, novels, articles and editor's choice article expand my education,
information and make me able top stand by my own in a group of crowd. PESTAL analysis
provide a concept of external affairs and environment and advance my informations and lessons
and build a concrete me with perfection of communication and knowledge.
1.3 Evaluate the benefits of self-managed learning to the individual and organisation
Self managed learning enables a person capable enough to take their own decisions and
manage himself in pressured and stressful condition. Graduation from educational institutes not
only provide degree to student such as me but help in learn from various little things that they
acquire within a student. Here are some individual's benefits:
Source 1: Benefit of self managed learning, 2017

1) Individual Benefits Group Assignment Skill: Group task help student in work as a team and which develop
individual communication skills and a create a friendly nature among team. Presentation Ability: Presentation in college project and educational institutes have open
a student like me in public speaking skills and build confidence and self dependence
within them.
 Communication Skill: Self learning enhance an individual communication skills by
providing huge information and knowledge to a person and help in facing challenges
(Florian, 2012).
2) Organisation Benefits
Self managed learning not only improve an individual but also develop organisation and
enable employer facility to meet objective with ease and assigning works to group of employee.
Here are advantage of self managed learning in organisation: Link Personal Skills with Organisation Goals: 'SMART' objectives require to reach for
organisation. Self learning increase quality through connecting personal skills with
company by giving them purpose. NHS Goals: Developing quality, reducing errors and serving customers as well as
employee needs and preferences.
 Motivating and Supporting Employee: If an employee is increasing organisation
performance through self learning, organisation can support and value their opinions and
concepts for better results.
4.1 Solution at work base area
An organisation may have a lot of work problem among their environment it is necessary
to find an appropriate solution in right time to avoid conflicts and problems. Major problem in an
organisation is wrong dissemination of communication and information at different levels.
Communication has a significant part in an organisation development and growth and
functioning their management smoothly.
In competitive market, communication is most important element that an organisation
need to manage. People are concerned with different communication techniques according their
interpretation levels such as audio based information, written information and gestures and many
other levels. Misinterpretation is something that every company should try to avoid.

Here are few major issues which I need to work on:
 Worse Communication skills
 Decrement in profitability
 Less growth
To manage those issues, company require a good information technology within
organisation. Training and development is needed for staff to reduce any conflict and problems
and educate them new technology and systems that can help in ease work functioning.
Familiarise employee with communication tactics and provide them chance to grow and
improve. To maintain external affairs and communication, use a efficient and effective method
of marketing and promotion mix to encode company information and data to other public.
Therefore, company can develop good communication in internal environment as well as
external sources.
 Manage proper hiring and selection process
 Coordinate proper training
 Work allotment along with proper allotment of time and prepare a development plan
4.2 Communicate in several styles and their suitable method
Main move in implementing strategies begin with good communication among
workforce. An organisation need to recognise selected problems that sustain growth of company
and identify possible solution (Cleary, 2011). Through research and survey methods and
analysing response of staff can manage data and reasons of lack of good relation with employee.
Notice and highlight all elements that barrier a good communication with staff. Apply some
management techniques and methods to overcome with this specific problem. Therefore, this is
convenient plan to solve this. Create trust and loyalty toward organisation and offer some extra
activities and plans to satisfy employee needs.
Communication Levels -
A proper communication can lead all strategies work better and effective manner which
enable company to win confidence and loyalty of employee. There are levels of communication
that need to step one by one for a proper interpretation (Hardré, 2012). Here are some steps that
every management techniques require to manage for decoding of message:
 Strategy Building :
Preparing proper strategies for managing relation through environment studies.

 Tactical Step :
It include development of strategies for certain situation and planning of different tools
and technologies to meet implications and result.
 Operational level :
In this step, organisation implement and operate those strategies with different tactics in
environment to get improvement.
4.3 Analyse impressive time management strategies
Effective time management strategies create logical and disciplinary environment in
working structure and function. Time management can help in focusing all routine and not
managed work and give a view over all strategies and plans that have been done. It can remind
time of particular work and priority assignment and meeting on a specific plan. Diary
management record every events and little activities and large activities that occur in company or
individual life. It remind and maintain in time allotment for a general work. Diary management
make people more responsible for their duties and responsibilities.
It control time management in life of an entrepreneur and in business where every
second value is money and profit. Spare time on a right place in accurate amount in finishing a
specific work. It avoid difficulty, delay and effectiveness in work and make it more valuable and
beneficial deal or strategy. Time management is required because market is dynamic and it vary
in span of time. After a period of time, strategies might not work. Time management controls
this results and change it in positive result.
The analysis of time management skills is essential for managing the activities and their
result which can be attained by:
 Through prioritising goals and aims by individual and organisation
 By maintaining focus, self awareness and inspiration
 More decisive when needed
 Keeping patience while achieving or targetting a goal
 By improving and developing skills
These activities can avail in analysing the techniques of time management as well as pace
the speed of reaching target of an individual or organisation. An organised and systematised
structure and schedule avail in accomplishing aims within a period of time.

TASK 2
2.1 Create a CV
Name:
Address:
Telephone number:
Email:
Carrier Objective: To build a carrier in your developing company, which can aid me in
improving skills and qualities and I can work with more and more efforts in achievement of
targets.
Academic Qualification:
 Graduate Masters in marketing
Experience: Fresher
Strength:
 Hard working even in Pressure
 Loyalty
 Team spirit
 Compete in any situation and grab opportunities
 Time Punctual Leadership skills
Statement:
I solemnly announce that all information are totally pure.
2.2 Identify personal improvement requirement and methods to reach them
This is essential to identifies one's strengths and weakness in order to develop and
improve needs and there are some activities which are needed to meet those (Moon, 2013). To
examine those a SWOT analysis is require for professional and personal development that is
below:
Strength -

Every individual and organisation have strengths that encourage them. My strengths are my hard
working personality, quick learning ability and spirit to reach till the end (Capps, 2012).
Weakness –
My weakness are major hurdles that i Am trying to improve. My weakness are my
sleeping problem and my problem to get bored from same work.
Opportunity -
My opportunities is my further studies and my passion toward study and reading that can
take me on heights of achievement.
Threat -
Threats are heavy competitions and advance talented people and also my weakness that is
hard to leave.
By this management of all development can be arranged and maintained for own
development.
2.3 Determine evolution opportunities to achieve present and upcoming requirements
An organisation and an individual require t maintain and complete their needs of
development and improvement after a period of time. Market is dynamic so as the trends.
Society changes according market and trends. Changes come in a helical process but they occur
after time. Person and professional development need to identified and grow own needs and
requirement. Here are some brief needs of present and future:
Present Requirement -
In present, I am pursuing my degree and analysing different aspects of market and
business (Mwalongo, 2011). My goals is to study various aspects of personal and professional
development and need of development in an individual and professional life.
Future Needs -
An individual and organisation can develop themselves by adopting and accepting
opportunities that occur in their path and make them their strengths. My future needs is one of
my opportunities that I want to pursue and that need is my higher education and further studies
and pass my test and examination with gaining good marks and achievements (Nicholls, 2014).
Helpful strategy -
In respect to develop my basic of information and knowledgable, personally prefer to
read and gather as much knowledge and information as I can get. I use various interesting and

needed sources that contain wide variety of information and data i.e. newspaper, new media like
internet, social media, websites, magazines, New channels and other source of information. This
may help me in completing my research and analysis.
2.4 Personal and professional development plan
A development plan avail in meeting goals and objectives within a span of time. Here is
facilitated a development plan for improving personal skills and abilities which have been
explained as below:
S.
No
LEARNING
OBJECTIVE
CURRENT
PROFICIE
NCY
TARGE
T
PROFI
CIENC
Y
DEVELO
PMENT
OPPORT
UNITIES
CRITERI
A FOR
JUDGIN
G
SUCCES
S
TIME
SCALE
1 Improve skills
of
communication
It is too
complicated
for me to
interact with
people
specially
large
number of
group. I
need to
develop my
communicat
ion skills.
By
attaining
respecte
d
objectiv
es I can
develop
my
commun
ication
skills
and
abilities.
Through
the help of
this, I will
be more
able to
interact
with
different
people
which can
help me in
achieving
objectives
and goals.
Through
the help of
family and
friends n
measuring
achieveme
nt of
success.
10 days
2 Bored-um This is one
of major
problem of
Performi
ng in a
specific
By
evaluating
those
By
seeking
my
11 days

mine that I
doze f early
from any
work which
I preform.
place or
field, I
can get
rid of
these
drawbac
k of
mine.
elements
which is
the cause
of this
weakness.
interest
area and
making
improvem
ent in
those
specific
ones.
3.1 Procedure and practices development plan implementation
This is essential for an effective implication of plan to understand few plan of actions
and elements in order to occur improvement in an attractive method for personal as well as
professional development. One of main and effective techniques is systematic strategies which
can lead a strategy to development in a good way. These are some practices that is needed for
development in implementation :
 Improve communication skills which can manage by understanding other views and
interactive activities in public (Patton, 2013). It reduce hesitation level within a person
and enhance his public speaking skills and confidence.
 Meeting better outcomes through finding solution of problems and issues. Discuss those
issues and matters with other people in order to get unique and several option of solution.
 Through increasing team work activities an individual can enhance their friendly nature
and communication skills and help to meet their future plans.
In respect to meet better conclusion, preparation of straet8igies either for personal
development or professional development is required and to develop and success of
implementation of activities (Pillen, Beijaard and Brok, 2013). All elements need to maintain and
control to meet implementation development and it is important for bother personal and
professional development to follow these process to meet result.
3.2 Evolution activities as planned
Development practices need some future plans and effective strategies in order to achieve
heights of success. Training is best option and elements for this. Training help a person to
improve and enhance his knowledgable. To document and undertake a plan, preparation and

training is required in order to reduce conflicts and issues while implementation and results. Also
individual like me need a good carrier path for future purpose. This is essential to find out some
practices that develop and deploy a person and professional abilities.
 Plan to achieve long term goals. For that , I need to arrange many training activities and
have to analysis depth of the studies. Using of practical examples will assure and rectify
my results and research and result in a better way.
 I will utilize time management methods and other various methods such as this so it can
carry out required development and improvement in me.
 I can attain my long terms objectives linked with my decision making skills for which I
require to watch motivational and inspiration videos as well as team work activities.
 To resolve the issues of bad communication skill, I need to attend seminars, and
conferences as well as public events which can avail in practising the learned activities
as well.
3.3 Own learning against original goals and objectives
Own learning is essential part in order to self development and improvement which an
individual require as a plan so it can easily access in real life in an effective manner. Essentials
goals through various practices because it modifies person or profession's visions and aims. I can
attain various methods such as seminars and programmes and other tools. It will enhance my
skills and performance and help me embrace myself and boost my confidence, my knowledge
levels. It also will shape my talent and views and will help me meet my goals and objectives
(Reeves, 2012).
Other benefit of increase and improve my public speaking skills and reduce my hesitation
level. Through building effective relations with people, I can get new information and deploy me
connection and access their information through discussion. Also it aware me from different
cultures and perception (St‐Jean, 2012).
3.4 Modification of development plan according evolution and responses
Feedback is helpful technologies to measure effect and result of implemented strategies
from other and get their views. Here is a development after evaluation of feedback.
LEARNING
GOALS
PRESENT
COMPETEN
GOALS
PROFICIEN
DEVELOPMENT
POSSIBILITY
TIME STANDARD/
REMARK

CY CY
Communicatio
n ability
Developed Improvement
goals
Achieved.
Many opportunities
are available for future
improvement.
Nil.
Leadership
skills
Developed Improvement
goals
achieved.
Leadership power had
been developed
recently but there is
few possibility which
could be understand in
this respect.
Nil
Problem
solving skills
Not
Developed
Goals not
Achieved.
Data from various
sources can get to
understand to resolve
issues effectively.
2 Month.
Listening
skills
Developed Goals
Achieved.
This was previously
reinforced and later
understanding all
responses this has
been totally
developed.
Nil.
Technological
skills
Developed Achieved . This is being grown in
a span of time and the
habit to consider latest
up gradation from
internet has been built
in effective way
(Zepeda, 2012).
Nil
Team working Not Not achieved. There are few 2 Month.

skills Developed elements of which this
is needed to work in
order to achieve
further goals in a
better way.
By evaluating those responses and feedback, one can measure the result or outcome of
performed entire activities. This can help in in getting to the result of my performance and how
much have improved myself. It have helped me knowing that I have increased my
communication skills as well as my presentation abilities. The team working skills of mine have
emerged my confidence level and my interactive skills. It was a proper improvement in overall
personality.
CONCLUSION
From this following study, it can conclude that self learning is important for either
personal and professional development for managing own learning and education. Basically to
achieve success in professional and personal matter and carrier, one need to set goals and
objectives and require to meet them in a specific time. Accurate planning, development,
controlling and monitoring own activities and affairs and a better management of time can keep
things set. A person require to consider professional improvement plans and strategies to
understand and deploy himself in future and meet success.

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