Personal and Professional Development Reflective Report

Personal and
Professional
Development
Reflective Report

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Gibb's reflective cycle.................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
University level education has numerous benefits for students and provides them various
opportunities to learn and develop skills which can be helpful in future professional
development. This reflective report provides information about the ways in which attending
university and the module personal and professional development have contributed to
improvement in study and employability skills.
MAIN BODY
Gibb's reflective cycle
Reflection is defined as the process of using meta-cognition processes to learn from past
experiences and occurrences of an individual student. In educational field reflection is conducted
by students with the help of various models such as Kolb's reflective model, Schon's reflective
model, Johns reflective model etc (Sekarwinahyu and et. al., 2019). I have utilized the Gibb's
reflective cycle for completing reflection on past experiences of participating in the module
personal and professional development and attending University. Gibb's reflective cycle
describes 6 stages which need to be completed in order to effectively learn from a past
experiences. The application of Gibb's reflective cycle is provided below:
Descriptions
In the first stage of the reflective cycle, the main occurrences of past experience which
are points of concern are described in a detailed manner (Sekarwinahyu, Rustaman and Widodo,
2019). This helps clearly recollect the past experience for further examination. I attended
University for completing my higher education degree and participated in the module personal
and professional development with the aim of achieving skills which support success in my
private life as well as professional career. Team based tasks, class discussions and sage of virtual
learning environment technology were some of this things which supported my university
experience.
In case of the module personal and professional development, gained knowledge about
managing my personal and professional development along with the concept of continued
professional development. In addition to this, I learned about personal and professional
development tools with the help of this module and ways of effectively applying various tools to
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