Reflective Essay on Academic and Professional Skills

Reflective essay

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAINBODY...................................................................................................................................3
Reflection Model.........................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Professional skills are those skills that are does not teach in academics as part of course
even it is developed while working in the job place. Professional skills are good communication,
leadership, mentoring, problem-solving, critical analysis etc. are value-added skills which are
important for any career that’s why these are known as career competencies. While academic
skills are known as core skills which are acquired by teachers in academics. These skills are
writing skills, presentation skills, critical thinking and others.. In this report will discuss about
academic and professional skills experience through Gibb’s reflective model.
MAINBODY
Reflection Model
Gibb’s reflective model is highly popular model that is used for interpreting personal
reflection and implement in different scenario and assists to analyze effectively. American
psychologist and sociologist Grahams Gibbs were proposed this model. This Gibb’s reflective
approach is a systematic approach to understand whole learning program and have other
appropriate learning outcomes improved through different techniques and approaches
implemented in this framework (Ardian, Hariyati and Afifah, 2019). I used this model to share
my feeling while working with such workplace and has supported me to develop professional
skills. With this model I have analyzed all my strengths, weaknesses and driving factors etc.
supports me to be productive and manage my career plan effectively. The model is described as
follows:
Description
In the primary stage of the reflective model whereas explains about event on which
reflection is based on in detail. I have completed my diploma in NVQ (National Vocational
Qualification) that is a work-based learning from the collage. While studying in the academic
delegates different tasks by teachers to the student. The reason behind is that they want to
analyze competency level of individuals while dealing with realistic issues. Thus, academic
teacher has allotted a task to make report on patients’ condition in the Care UK organization
which was required to complete on time (2 weeks) to achieve high scores in diploma. As I knew