Importance of Reflection in Developing Academic Skills

This report discusses the importance of reflection in developing academic skills. It highlights the various skills required for effective academic performance and how reflection helps students to identify their strengths and weaknesses. The report also emphasizes the significance of reflection in reducing workload, stress, and mistakes, and how it can lead to increased self-awareness, confidence, and better decision-making skills.

Reflection

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Reflection ....................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills has been termed as talents addition to habits of students which benefits
them in multiple activities of academy such as learning, report writing, research and
presentations. Reflection has been determined as process of determining strengths as well as
weaknesses throughout the learning process in academic life. It assists the learners to understand
more about their current skills and knowledge as well as areas or skills which they need to
develop for further studies and achieve success in future career. This report highlights academic
skills needed by a student to conduct effective performance in their school.
MAIN BODY
Reflection
Academic skills includes various skills such as time management, communication,
reflection and emotional intelligence skills. Reflection has been defined as analysing personal
experiences to enhance the way a person work or learn. Its is very important academic skills
which can helps me as a student addition to professional to gain confidence, experience and self
awareness (Bailey and Bulotsky-Shearer, 2022). It can assist me as a learner to develop my skills
as well as review their effectiveness. It also helps me to sharpen my skills, understanding and
knowledge which I can use to develop my professional career.
In Academic life reflection helped me to make effective plan to complete my course and
learning process effectively to get good grades in exams. Through reflection I got to know more
about my self such as which skills and area in am good at and what are my weaknesses for which
I need to give extra efforts to develop for future success. Such as I am good at communication
and time management where as my weaknesses are lack of self awareness skills and decision
making skills. Reflection plays a most important role in a my academic life as it allow to reduce
my workload, stress and mistakes which leads to increase my self-awareness skills and
connections with others. It allow me to look back addition to learn from past experience which I
can use to build my personality.
Reflection helps me to know about my core values, to reduce fears, developing better
decision making skills, relationships, to mitigate anxiety, stress and managing work life balance.
It leads to increase my confidence and understanding to about my career choice or interest which
I can pursue as my professional career in future. It helped me to get clear insight and picture
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about my abilities which I can use to understand the nature and behaviour of people so I can
work with them in a team effectively to achieve common goal (Manfra, 2019). It also provide me
various solution of my issues, mistakes and confusion which sorted out my work load
effectively. By making effective plan to increase my academic skills I can get better result in
future to become successful.
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded, from the above information that academic skills enable the
students to complete their project, learning process efficiently or effectively. Reflection helps a
learner during their academic life to know about their strengths or weaknesses as well as make
plan to use resources in order to reduce mistakes for future development.
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REFERENCES
Books and journal
Bailey, J. and Bulotsky-Shearer, R.J., 2022. Learning Behaviors Mediate Associations between
Parent-reported Peer Play Skills and Literacy and Mathematics Skills for Low-income
Preschool Children. Early Education and Development. 33(3). pp.523-540.
Manfra, L., 2019. Impact of homelessness on school readiness skills and early academic
achievement: A systematic review of the literature. Early Childhood Education
Journal. 47(2). pp.239-249.
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