Professional Practice 12 Weeks Portfolio Tasks

This article includes Professional Practice Week 1 Portfolio Tasks which covers topics like learning contract, mission statement, skill set & behaviour assessment survey reflection, reflective commentary, personal development plan, and more.

Professional Practice Week 1 Portfolio Tasks
Task 1a. Learning Contract
Answer the questions on your motivation and commitment to making progress on the module.
1a. What am I willing to do to achieve good grades on this module?
For this module I am focusing on all the resource which help to enhance my knowledge and
ask for helps to classmates so that I can follow strategies which help to improve my
knowledge. Then establishing goals and rewards that motivate me completing task
effectively. Also, I will set study schedule that help to provide all the information in context
to managing task (Asadi and Huber, 2018).
1b. How will I measure my success?
I will measure my success by getting good grades and knowledge which enhance my skills.
2a. What could distract me?
Personal devices and unnecessary talks in class can be distracted me.
2b. What actions could I take to avoid / minimize the distraction?
In order to avoid distraction I will establish my study routine in order to track how to
spend time for each topic. Also, this is related to organizing task with to do list. Then
putting cell phone on silent mode so it can not distract me (Hikosaka, Nakamura and
Nakahara, 2020).
3. What new behaviour / skills / techniques will I apply to my studies from now on?
I will install study app and more focus on online learning which help to improve my
knowledge and completing module effectively. Also, I will work on time management skill in
order set all the necessary task according to their importance.
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Task 1b. Mission Statement
Use the prompts below (Wilding, 2020) to help you create your personal mission statement
that reflects who you are as a person and you're guiding values. Adapt the sentences as much
as you need.
''To build a network of like-minded individual so that it helps to improve my learning. I will
do this by all the new possibilities''.
''To live each day with self-discipline, courage and responsibilities so that it help me to get good
grades. I will do this by encourages myself for learning and engaged with lifelong learners''.
Task 1c. Skill Set & Behaviour Assessment survey reflection
When you have completed the survey and had feedback from a classmate and another person
who knows you very well (colleague, line manager, family member) reflect on the results.
1. Did your view of your skills differ from other people’s?

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Yes
2. What information was highlighted from completing the survey?
By completing the survey it has been identified that it helps gauge the
representativeness of individual views and experiences. It also helps to provide
opinion of others and ability to understand their behaviour.
3. Which of the skills mentioned will you choose to focus on in future?
emotional intelligence
4. Any other thoughts on the results of the survey?
I thought survey is the best way of getting all the information in order to focus on
insight into different types of values and multiple purpose. Also, I can visualize on the basis
of setting key facts which is necessary to focus on other opinion and thought by targeting
right people.

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Task 2: Reflective Commentary (300-Asadi, M. and Huber, M., 2018, 500 words)
Answer the following questions on this week’s sessions. You may choose to answer the
questions one at a time or write in paragraphs.
Which aspect of today’s session did I find most interesting? Why?
One thing I learnt from the session that skill and behaviour are one of the important
topic which help to learn about all the aspect that are need to develop. Also, I am not sure
about what other think for this topic but I can understand the topic very well. Earlier I did
not focus on that kind of topic otherwise I might learn more if I were more understand the
topic on the basis of taking support of books and online. Things that I want to do now is
more focusing on learning and development and making notes in class while teaching. There
are different types of skill which I need to focus on in future such ass emotional intelligence
that are necessary to identify and manage own emotions. Adaptability is also important for
enhance learning as well as it help to develop knowledge. Then one of the most important is
related to communication skill that help to build interconnection skill etc.
my skill are differed from other colleague because everyone has their own interest and
skill. I have keen interest in developing my knowledge and completing survey effectively so that
it helps to provide benefit of getting better knowledge and skills. Also, other are more work on
their practical knowledge that is necessary to work on the basis of improving their skills. I need to
build confidence while communication with others. This is my specific skill that are necessary to work on
for better condition. Also, by managing time it helps to meet deadline and managing time effectively in
order to make it more productive. . This is also helped for development of interpersonal skills abilities
that help to improve the knowledge and ability of learn new things. To focus on positives reason and
providing me opportunity for emphasizing the skill and abilities. Also, this is help while work well with
others.
TASK 3. Personal Development Plan
Think about the results of the surveys you did and the feedback you received from your 2
chosen individuals. What similarities can you see in the results? Do their ideas highlight areas
that you feel you need to develop? Do you have any other ideas of areas to develop?
Complete the PDP below by answering the questions fully with specific details. Remember
that it is normal for your ideas and PDP to change as the course continues and your priorities
alter.
STEP 1: Identify Your Development Needs
A. Why are you seeking development at this time?

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I want to seek development at these time because of feedback given by two individual are one is
supervisor at office and another one is colleague. At this time it helps to develop knowledge as well
as work more on skill development. Then feedback given on weakness supervisor and employees that
are necessary to work on in better terms.
B. What are you seeking to develop at this time?
By choosing skill and development it is necessary to more focus on improving communication skill.
So that it help for learning contract effectively and able to work on practical.
C. Emphasis: What do you need? What is your specific goal?
I need to build confidence while communication with others. This is my specific skill that are
necessary to work on for better condition. Also, by managing time it helps to meet deadline and
managing time effectively in order to make it more productive.
STEP 2: Identify Your Development Options
D. What steps could you take to develop the new knowledge, skills and behaviours?
E.g. read more about the topic? Watch some videos about the topic? Practise the skill
Every day for 30 minutes? Organize the way you learn?
Think about your own learning preferences and adapt the task to suit.
According to task it has been analysed that I will work more on reading skills and also take help from
online videos and enhance my learning. Also, every 30 minutes I will prepare my own notes, so I can
revise on daily basis. Also, it help to learn new words.
E. Considerations arising from ‘why’, ‘what’ and ‘how’
Speed: How quickly do you need to develop the knowledge, skills or behaviours identified?
It is necessary to work on development of skill early in orders improving skill, knowledge that is
why it helps to improve my performance at workplace. This will help to make good impression in order
F: Identify Your Development Options
to completes the task on time with very less mistake help to improve knowledge as well as provide
opportunity of changing experiencing with others by including their relationship.

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STEP 3: Plan for Development Activities
G. Write down the steps you will take to accomplish your task.
What could go wrong with your plan?
What will you do if your original plan does not work well?
Think of an alternative way to achieve your goal.
The wrong thing is related to not following the current plan by forget steps, if the original plan not
worked I will more focus on change the activities that help to achieving objectives. By thinking of
alternative way it can be related to consult with supervisor by focusing more on scheduling another
task. The other alternative is depended on focusing on writing skill that is necessary to adopt and help
to achieve goals.
STEP 4: Undertake Development Activities
H. List your development activities completed throughout the semester
There are many skills which are need to works on development of activities throughout the semester
such as follows:
Daily revision of early reading topic
communication skill simulation
Problem solving games
STEP 5: Apply new knowledge/ skills/ behaviours in the workplace
How do you intend to use this new knowledge/ skills/ behaviour in the workplace?
In order to delegation of authority it has been analysed that communication skill is one of the
important skill which is necessary to follow the necessary task. Then it can be said that there are with
the help of analytical and research skill in context to focus mores on practical knowledge at
workplace
STEP 6: Review and Repeat
Reflect on how this new knowledge/ skill / behaviour helped in your professional development
This is also helped for focusing on growth and development in orders focusing more on individual
learning by these traits that can help to shape attitude, responses and reactions in different situation.
This is also helped for influencing others in order to focus more on building team capacity and help to
maintain effective relationship with others.
REFERENCES
Hikosaka, O., Nakamura, K. and Nakahara, H., 2020. Central mechanisms of motor skill
learning. Current opinion in neurobiology, 12(2), pp.217-222.
Asadi, M. and Huber, M., 2018, May. Effective Control Knowledge Transfer through Learning Skill and
Representation Hierarchies. In IJCAI (Vol. 7, pp. 2054-2059).