Academic and Professional Development

Academic and Professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic development is defined as the professional or educational development of an
individual that includes that includes planned activities to improve all the dimensions of learning.
Professional development is characterised as a continuous education and training of a person in
regards to his/ her career (Cottrell, (2017). Academic as well as professional development, both
are important for an individual in order to grow and succeed in his/ her life. This is a reflective
report in which reflection is provided on my own experience in NBS Masters Programme
module. In this reflection, the learning that I gained from the module and how it contributes in
my academic, personal and professional development is discussed in the report.
MAIN BODY
Reflective statement is defined as the academic style in which a writer emphasize on past
events and their learning from it. The reflective statement requires an individual to discuss the
procedure of developing the related assessment task. Reflecting on own experiences and learning
encourage complex learning and insight. It is a systematic reviewing process that allow the
individuals to aware of their own actions and professional knowledge. Reflection on learning
helps an individual in exploring own feeling, experiences and events (Cushion, (2018). By
reflecting on own experience, individuals can gain insights on their learning, what they did well
or not well etc. I am a student of NBS Masters Programme and working on the academic and
professional development module. In this module, I learnt so many things. I was assigned with a
project by my tutor at the initiation of first semester which I needed to complete in group. While
working on the research project, so many new things I got to learnt in module. I was assigned
with particular topic, on which I needed to research and gather information on it. As my research
skills are good, I did it well. By researching on the topic, my knowledge got improved not only
on the topic, but on other areas also. Initially, I haven't any knowledge about research, how to
conduct it etc. But then, my tutor and group members guide me and provide me information
about how to perform a research in systematic manner.
At the time when I did work on the programme, there was a situation in which I needed
to communicate or present the gathered information in front of other people. At that time, I felt
very nervous and loose my confidence level at a point. This was due to my ineffective
communication skills. In the starting of module, I was not able to interact with others in proper