Professional Development and Teacher Education

This document provides a comprehensive overview of professional development in teacher education. It includes references to relevant books and journals, as well as online resources. The content focuses on the importance of professional development for teachers, including its impact on student learning outcomes and teacher efficacy. Additionally, it highlights various studies and case studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of different approaches to professional development.

Personal and Professional
Development

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1 .......................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Identification of different approaches of self managed learning..........................................1
1.2 Ways to encourage life long learning....................................................................................2
1.3 Advantages of self managed learning to an individual and to the organisation....................2
4.1 Identification and solution of work based problem...............................................................3
4.2 Learning style to solve various issues...................................................................................4
4.3 Time management strategy ..................................................................................................4
TASK 2 ..........................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Creation of C.V.....................................................................................................................5
2.2 Identification of personal and professional needs.................................................................6
2.3 Identification of development opportunities.........................................................................6
2.4 Personal and professional development plan........................................................................7
3.1 Requirements for execution of development plans...............................................................8
3.2 Documenting planned activity .............................................................................................9
3.3 Comparison between own skills and original aim................................................................9
3.4 Plan up-gradation..................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
The importance of personal and professional development of employees has enhanced in
this fast changing world. There are many companies who invest huge sum on pouring various
kind of skills in their workers (Blandford, 2012). Tesco is an organisation who is operating in
retail sector. This report will discuss about different approaches of self-managed learning.
Evaluation of own skills and competencies relating to objectives of organisation will become
part of this project. A personal and professional development plan will be included in the file.
Some strategies of time management will be covered under this assignment.
TASK 1
1.1 Identification of different approaches of self-managed learning
The concept of self-managed learning is related to a situation where an individual is
accountable for own development. Normally the developed quality is demanded by the various
organisation. Below are some of the main the methods for self-managed learning:
Attend seminars and conference – There are many companies who organise different
events in order to enhance the talent of the employee. If staff members join these programmes
then they will get a change to acquire latest and essential knowledge about various concepts. Lot
of people become part of popular seminars, communicating with them will definitely be a great
experience for an individual (Carreira and Kagan, 2011). Giving speech on big platforms pour
confidence in the workers of an organisation. Public speaking is an important quality in this era,
by attending different conference as a guest one can remove the fear of giving presentation in-
front of the senior managers.
Internet – All kind of information is available on internet in present time. An individual
can learn any skills or acquire various type if knowledge by reading online books or watching
videos. Social networking websites help in finding and connecting people, one can use this mode
for communicating with a person who is sitting in a different nation.
Following are some learning style and their benefits:
Visual – In this method, things are learnt by watching videos, seeing picture or colours.
This approach helps in understanding hard concepts in short period of time.
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Oral – It is related to listening; a person can acquire new skills by hearing the
communication and lectures of different people. The prime benefit of this mode is that an
individual can bifurcate the relevant and irrelevant information.
(Source: Overview of Learning Styles. 2017)
Social – Society can teach significant things in less time, by attending seminars or
conference one can develop necessary talent in own personality.
Logical – This is considered as a difficult approach of learning, it is related to developing
reasoning and analytical skills. The main advantage of this method is that it can assist in
understand complex issue.
1.2 Ways to encourage lifelong learning
Personal and professional development is significant part for career growth. There are
many ways which help in lifelong learning, some of them are as follows:
Self-evaluation – It is important to find the own strength and weakness because it assist
in identifying the actual position where a person stand in present time (Dixon and et. al., 2014).
SWOT analysis is the popular approach for accomplishing this task.
Motivation lectures – Human being need continuous motivation in order to learn new
things and perform better. By joining various online and offline seminar one can focus on
lifelong learning.
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Illustration 1: Overview of Learning
Styles.

Books and Blogs – Books are considered as the oldest sources of acquiring knowledge. In
modern era, famous and successful personalities write blogs so they can tell people the ways
which they have adopted for attaining success. By reading these books and blogs, an individual
can reach goals relating personal and professional development.
I am already using most of the above-mentioned methods. By conducting own SWOT
analysis, I found that I do not have good communication skills. After attending different
conferences and online motivation lectures I am working on my weaknesses.
1.3 Advantages of self-managed learning to an individual and to the organisation
Whenever a person learns new skills it develop his/her personality but at the same time it
also provide various benefits to the company in which that person work. Below are some of the
major benefits of self-managed learning:
To Individual:
 When someone take responsibility of finding own flaws and they remove them then it
pours confidence in his personality. These skills are necessary for attaining long term
success in the career.
 While working in a team, an individual learns different things because he/she get a
chance to work with various kinds of experts. Sometime acquiring additional knowledge
help in getting rapid promotions (Forte and Flores, 2014).
 The importance of developing communication skill is contentiously increase. Self-
managed learning can identify and remove problems like fear of speaking in public.
To the organisation:
 If an employee gains some new skills, then company can use it in attaining organisational
goals. They can promote worker and allot fresh task to them which he/she can effectively
perform by using newly acquired skill.
 Self-management learning reduces the training and development expenditure of an
enterprise. If staff members will take own responsibility for continuous growth then they
company does not need to spend huge sum on teaching them latest and necessary
knowledge.
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4.1 Identification and solution of work based problem
Tesco is popular organisation in retail sector. When an enterprise operates at such a high
level then facing continuous trouble it normal problem in the business. Out of various issues,
below are the prime problem which my firm (Tesco) is facing in recent time:
Less job satisfaction – Number of strikes and conflicts in the company are continuously
increasing. Some employees are regularly complaining about work pressure and lengthy working
hours.
Poor advertising strategy – Tesco is not known for their aggressive marketing and
promotion (Hadar and Brody, 2013). Their competitors are getting competitive advantage on
them because they are telecasting their attractive advertisement in the prime time.
Huge debt burden – Tesco is facing issues relating to improper use of financial resources.
Incidents like Brexit made a huge negative impact on the business of the corporation.
Solution
 If employee will get continuous and necessary training then they can accomplish their
work in less time and problems relating to lengthy working hours can easily get resolved.
 If more qualified and talented professionals are recruited in organisation then they can
solve the trouble of wrong advertising strategy and utilise financial resources of the
company in appropriate manner.
4.2 Learning style to solve various issues
Problems are part of the business, some of them have ability to derail the operations of an
enterprise. By using oral method of learning style, significant information to the employee can be
communicated in short period of time. Needs of workers are different, some had issues relating
to long working hours while other had problem of work pressure (Wilcoxon, Remley and
Gladding, 2013). If they listen some motivation speech from senior management then their
thinking can change. This strategy can solve major problem of the organisation. By using
visuals in training session, the issues of quality advertisements can get resolve. If create team of
the corporation will see attract commercials of competitors enterprise then they may get better
idea about creation of good adds. These troubles can be soled at operation level. Finance is a
difficult topic, if people working in this department enhance their skills by using logical style of
learning then they can make better tactics for fighting small issues (Sargeant, Bruce and
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Campbell, 2013). It can help Tesco from reducing the current burden of debt which is hampering
their long term growth.
4.3 Time management strategy
Managing available time is very important for attaining own and organisational
objectives (17 Essential time management skills, 2017). People who manage their time in
effective manner can easily achieve the goals which they have set for themselves. Below are
some strategies of time management:
Set aims according to priority – Most of the people fail in their life because to do not
understand the priority of the work. Sometime they spend many hours in task which is not going
to teach them single thing (Pillen, Beijaard and Brok, 2013). If a work is not important and does
not have any relation with set goals then it should be done in free time. Significant task should
always be done on high priority.
Clear focus on daily activities – People generally concentrate on result, this is a wrong
strategy because they should focus on process. Confusion are main reason behind unable to
attain the objective. If someone have clear goals then they can perform their work in appropriate
manner.
Patience – Normally people ignore this term, impatient people make more mistakes in
their life so one should keep patience according to the situation (Murdoch-Eaton and Sandars,
2014).
he strategy of keeping patience worked for me. Instead of proper analysing a situation, I
generally take decisions without discuss matter with various experts. When I figured out this
problem, I adopted the tactic of giving more time to the work which I may not not enjoy in
current scenario. I learnt that sometime keeping patience can solve various troubles of one's life.
TASK 2
2.1 Creation of C.V
Name:
Address:
Telephone number:
Email:
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Carrier Objective: To work in top level management of a successful company of retail sector.
Academic Qualification:
 Graduation in commerce Masters in marketing
Experience: 3 year working experience in retail sector.
Personal skills:
 Can work in pressured situation.
 Good communication skill
 Commercial awareness Leadership qualities
Declaration:
I declare that all the information provided by me is correct up-to my knowledge.
2.2 Identification of personal and professional needs
For every person, it is very important to know understand own strengths and weaknesses
(McConnell and et. al., 2013). I am aware about where qualities that is present in my personality
but at the same time I can easily find many flaws in working styles and other area. Below are
some necessary requirement where I have to work in future:
Strength Weakness Opportunities
I have good analytic skills
and I can understand a
situation in very less time.
Most of my co-workers says
that I am introvert, they also
feel that I lack confidence at
the of communicating with
anyone.
I can attend different seminars
and online classes for improving
my communication skills.
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I can easily understand the
nature of people, this help
in motivating them to work
according to my desire.
I do not have basic knowledge
about various technological
developments.
I can ask my friends to teach me
new soft-wares and share all the
latest news relating to
technological development.
My general knowledge is
above average and I fine
commercial awareness.
I am bit impatience and make
wrong call very often.
I can do some regular meditation
and make a sound strategy for
managing my time.
2.3 Identification of development opportunities
Current working on my technological skills will be my priority. This is one area which
can help in getting promotions in short period of time (Hadar and Brody, 2013). Their are many
people in my organisation who are have sound knowledge of this field, if I take assistance from
them it will be beneficial for me in long run. The importance of good communication skill in
essential in this era, I can motivate a person to work according to me but their is a lot of scope
relating to qualities like public speaking. If I develop this talent in my personality then it will
help in giving better presentation, I can convey different strategies to my senior and subordinate
in an effective manner.
In future my main focus will be on working on my emotional quotient. The skills like
developing patients is not the list of my current needs. Gaining these types of qualities take time
and I have to spend years on acquiring this talent. In upcoming time, new types of skills will be
required for attaining professional goals. Making plan for them in advance is difficult because
things may change in future. Their are lot of areas where I will be working in forthcoming time
like increasing my analytical skills. Most people like to remove the flaws which is present in
their personality but focus on my strength will be one of the my main work which I am going to
do in upcoming time. This may help me in getting fast promotions.
2.4 Personal and professional development plan
S.
No
LEARNING
OBJECTIVE
/GOAL
CURREN
T
PROFICI
TARGET
PROFICIE
NCY
DEVELOP
MENT
OPPORTU
CRITERIA
FOR
JUDGING
TIME SCALE
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ENCY NITIES SUCCESS
1 Work on
communicatio
n skill
I am good
with one
on one
communic
ation but
my writing
and public
speaking
skills are
not good.
To
communicat
e with
senior and
in public
with more
confidence.
This will
support me in
giving
quality
presentation
in various
seminars and
conference.
I will ask my
manager to rate
my
presentation.
6 months
2 Increase
knowledge
relating to
technology.
I am aware
about some
basic soft-
wares but I
can hardly
operate
them.
Gain
knowledge
about latest
soft-wares
and use
them at
workplace.
This will help
me in getting
rapid career
growth and
remove
biggest
reason which
is stopping
me from
getting
promoted in
less time.
I will ask my
friend in IT
department to
take my test
and then judge
the overall
performance.
3 months
3 Improve my
EQ
I can
handle
pressure
but I am
impatient.
Develop
quality of
keeping
patience in
unfavourabl
e time.
This will help
me in coping
up with
various hard
situations and
avoid
mistakes
I will ask my
family
members to
court the
number of
events when I
made wrong
2 years
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which I
commit
because of
impatient
nature.
decision due to
impatient
attitude.
3.1 Requirements for execution of development plans
For long term – Accomplishing these types of targets need lot of time (Forte and Flores,
2014). An effective process is needed for this removing one of my biggest problem i.e. impatient
nature. Sometime I give wrong advice to my juniors because of I do not listen them properly and
try to solve their problem in short period of time. The first requirement of my plan will be
finding a good coaching class of meditation. Time and money would be the most important
things that will be needed in implementation of this plan.
For short term – Working on my knowledge relating to technology is currently a top
priority for me. I have to buy some soft-wares which my company is using so I can work on
them and give more time for developing this skill. I will take assistance from my friends for
acquiring this talent, this requirement is essential for my learning process. I also need to find the
appropriate online tutor who can teach me various method for improving my communication
skills. This is an importance task and I have to spend huge money and time on the execution of
self development plan.
3.2 Documenting planned activity
Following are some significant steps which I have to follow for in the learning procedure:
1. The first thing to contact my friend who has good knowledge of technology. I have to set
a time for taking classes from him and bring all the necessary gadgets and books which
he wants me to buy. Accomplish this work may take 3 months.
2. I do not like to aim two goals in time so once I acquire decent level of knowledge
relating to technology then, after three months, I will start working on my
communication skill. Online classes will be the methods which I will adopt for
improving my speaking and writing ability. This task will take around 6 months.
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3. After accomplishing my short term targets I will start working on major problems which
is related to patience. This work will start after completion of 9 months.
3.3 Comparison between own skills and original aim
Reviewing the efforts which I have put on attaining my personal and professional
development is necessary for future growth. My communication skills are better than earlier and
most of the senior and subordinates are praising me for this. But I did not achieve my targets
relating to acquiring more knowledge about technology. I still face many problems in working
on various soft-wares. It is difficult to ascertain the success of failure regrading my long term
goal i.e. to increase my patient and improve my EQ. But most of my family and staff members
are told me that they have seen some positive change in my personality. This means that I have
attain limited success in short time period.
3.4 Plan up-gradation
Instead of learning too many soft-wares in one time I have to focus on studying one
application and get mastery on it (Dixon and et. al., 2014). This the time period for attaining this
objective is also needed to be modified. In future, I have to set some aggressive goals relating to
working on my communication skill. I have successfully developed public speaking quality but I
have to work on my writing because my senior want to improve this area. The time period of 2
years for enhance patience will get shorten to 1 and a half month. I have attain some rapid
success in this field and by maintaining same pace I can easily achieve my new goals.
CONCLUSION
At the end, it can be concluded that there are many learning styles and one should choose
appropriate one according to the need their suitability. Personal and professional development
plan can identify the mistakes that is present in an individual, it can analyse current and future
needs. Continuous learning can help a person in removing many flaws that may be present in
their personality. By using various mode like online coaching, attending seminars, etc. one can
work on their problems. Taking feedbacks from co-workers and family members is important for
finding the success which an individual have achieved in attaining their objectives. Modification
of personal development programme is essential for attaining upcoming and missed goals. A
sound development plan can provide great assistance in continuous growth.
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