Academic Skills: Creating a Personal & Professional Development Plan

This report provides a detailed overview of academic skills and personal and professional development planning. It emphasizes the importance of setting short, medium, and long-term goals for effective performance and career advancement. The report explores how author credibility, purpose, reliability, and relevance affect the use of sources in academic and professional contexts. It includes examples of each type of goal and discusses the value of personal development plans in enhancing current skills and achieving career benchmarks. The report also includes a table analyzing various sources used in developing the plan, focusing on their author, purpose, reliability, and relevance. The conclusion highlights that effective academic skills and a well-structured personal development plan, incorporating short, mid, and long-term goals, are crucial for achieving positive outcomes and fostering career growth.

Academic Skills and
Professional Development Plan

Table of Content
 Introduction
 Describe the concept of Personal and professional development plan
 Discuss the value of Short term goals along with examples
 Describe the values Mid term goals along with examples
 Illustrate about Long term goals within examples
 Examining how Author, purpose, reliability and relevance affect the use of sources
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

Introduction
Academic Skills is represent about the talent which is generate about habitual academic pursuits such
as learning, research, writing and presentation. In this academic skills is includes analysis,
communication, social, planning and test making within technical skills. It mainly motivate student
become about more efficient learners. The skills is allows to making optimum level of outcomes or
success achieved effectively such as communication, adaptability along with more productivity
attained.

Describe the concept of Personal and professional development
plan
This is description which is regarding on personal and professional development plan which
explain on the basis of procedure where the organisation and individual creates better change
on effective learning to meet their challenges and desired goals. On the concept of
professional development plan which able to set their road map which containing certain skills
and strategy for education for further analyse career achieve professional goals advancement.

Discuss the value of Short term goals along with examples
The short term goals are the type of goal which can mapping by individual who wants to
achieve within lesser period of time and also attain goals. It can be also said that to individual
want to accomplish goal and objectives are planning to accomplish in less period of time
effectively. This can be said that only this will not get motivated but it will result increasing
the productivity which is majorly focus on long term. There are three main examples which
are denotes towards the short term period.

Describe the values Mid term goals along with examples
On the basis of Medium term goals is another type of bit longer where it could to
goal be accomplished within next two weeks. These goals are slightly which is creates
difference from setting better short term goals with having long term. This will support to hand
for analyse which provide actual goal in relation better effective organise information within
early stage after short term accomplished. This would be more effective better successful
completion of specific objectives. There are some Mid term goals which are highlighted on
specific career plan and skills:

Illustrate about Long term goals within examples
A long term goal which is something which is needed to accomplished within future
perspective. Long term goals are require to better create planning to better provide proper
knowledge and skills in or to accomplish within futuristic vision that need complete in more of
time. It can helpful to better implement within nearby 2 months for more investment only one
objectives getting more return in future. As the long term goal plays an important which highly
performed within whole year. It can be helpful to implement for 2 months with time with
academic appropriate manner in more depth, due to this will cover about overall process
within the step by step which require proper assist to plan a good career in future. .There are 3
main example which highlight on current career plan such as:

Analyse the value of personal development plan
Personal development planning helps to individual to develop their current skills and
by using this individual can also attain new benchmark their individual career. Through using
of individual can also get to clear about idea that regarding for personal vision of their existing
skills. On the other hand it can be describe with the help of regarding within personal vision
building satisfaction among with individually. Examples As Personal Development plan:

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Objectives Measurable Action Tenure
To improve leadership skills At the time of 2 months ensure the
improvement in leadership skill by
guiding people.
For making a perfect start it require a
team on which individual can mapped
on leadership criteria and after taking
the feedback which how leadership was
leader.
This will take around 2 months to
accomplish and measure about on scale
of leadership scale.
Develop better communication To making evaluate it after 2 weeks to
make sure that improved effective
manner.
This can take different action which to
starts communicating with other people
attend online classes. In this webinar
which takes part of competition like
debates.
Around 1 week.
Attaining certificate for specific course This undertakes because it helps to
increase the credibility which generate
more knowledge power that improved.
It can makes better difference which
action to starts communicating within
the other. For making it successful
individual takes essential webinar and
soft skills classes which help to further
improve of communication skills.
This is quite expected to taken around
a month.

Examining how Author, purpose, reliability and relevance affect the use of sources
Author: This is main objective for author to better analyse and focus determine and having
appropriate with better knowledge in relation to better accomplish outcomes. In context of making
short, medium and long term goals for achievement in career goals.
Purpose: The only purpose is having related to determining about the goals for potential through
better personal provide opportunity with suitable career objectives. For example every individual is
having motive to attained their goals and objectives to achieved effective manner.

Highlight about eight sources which used in report plan financial mid plan goals
examples.
Source Author Purpose Reliability Relevance
coordinated responses of academic medical centres to
pandemics: sustaining medical education during
COVID-19. Medical teacher, 42(7), pp.762-771.
Ashokka, B., Ong, S.Y., Tay, K.H.,
Loh, N.H.W., Gee, C.F. and
Samarasekera, D.D., 2020
The purpose of making career in medical background
and proper taking education for effective development.
It is reliable for medical health
background which prevail more
education benefits.
It is relevance because it will
shows about the importance for
medical education.
Exploring the factors teachers consider in determining
students’ grades. Assessment in Education: Principles,
Policy & Practice, 26(3), pp.303-320.
Guskey, T.R. and Link, L.J., 2019. It is majorly focuses on determine students grades about
how they are performance in their education
performance.
Yes it is reliable where it represent about
to showing concerned behaviour of
teacher towards student.
The relevance of teacher regarding
with their student performance and
it will provide the more guidance
that raise positive outcomes.
The impact of e-portfolio use on the development of
professional standards and life skills of students: a case
study. Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 6(4),
p.1714.
Alajmi, M.M., 2019 It is having only objective to building up new portfolio
and having effective development better in student
credentials.
Yes, it is reliable because the
development professional standard and
having entrepreneurship enhancement
This would be relevance from the
business books and many
international related case study.
Do Teachers Have the Skills: 21st Century Skills in the
Agricultural Education Classroom?. Journal of
Agricultural Education, 61(4).
Weeks, K.J., Lawver, R.G., Sorensen,
T.J. and Warnick, B.K., 2020
This would only provide skills in agriculture within in
education on effective classroom.
It is moderately reliable because in
agriculture education there are
uncertainity of employment
It is relevance from agriculture
related books and other journals.
Professional development and teacher efficacy:
Evidence from the 2013 TALIS. School Effectiveness
and School Improvement, 30(4), pp.487-509.
Liu, Y. and Liao, W., 2019 This would have only one objective is to creating more
development in professional career which generate more
improvement through school.
It is relaible because it describe about
individual tecaher efficiency for student
performance in class.
This generate by the survey
process system which provide raw
data to create evidence of school
improvement.
Improving literacy and content learning across the
curriculum? How teachers relate literacy teaching to
school subjects in cross-curricular professional
development. Education Inquiry, 10(4), pp.368-384
Kirsten, N., 2019. The main purpose of using this to find out what do you
mean by short term goals.
It is reliable because it is presents by
different authors with their different
views
It is relevant because it gives full
information about short term goals
Professional Development and Qualification of Health
Care Managers in the Conditions of the COVID 19
Epidemiological Situation.
Bogdanova, K. and Chaneva, G., 2021 The purpose of this is it helps in determining the long
term goals
It is relatable because this article have so
many information about long term goals
It is relevant that is known
information about long term goals

Conclusion
It is summarised about Academic skills and development of individual perspective which
summarised that each candidate is require of short, mid and long term goals which helps to
gain positive outcomes in performance effectively. Personal development plan is generate
more growth specification that creates better work positive outcomes.