Academic Skills Development and SMART Goals: A Reflective Summary

This assignment presents a student's reflective summary on the development of their academic skills, focusing on key areas such as reflective writing, critical thinking, and the analysis of complex issues like child labor within global supply chains. The student utilizes a structured template to assess their learning experiences across several weeks, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement. The reflection also incorporates the development of SMART goals to guide future skill enhancement, with specific attention to areas where the student felt they could have performed better. The student's analysis also includes an understanding of the impact of child labor on society and how it affects global supply chains, and the student references several books and journals, demonstrating an understanding of the subject matter. The document aims to help students understand the importance of self-assessment and goal setting within the higher education system. The student intends to improve their skills in reflective writing, critical thinking, and gathering information.

DEVELOPMENT OF ACADEMIC SKILLS

TABLE OF CONTENT
Reflection........................................................................................................................................5

What did I
learn?
What went
well?
What could I
have done
better?
What did I
gain from
the
experience
SMART Goals for Future
Development (make sure
you include clear next
steps, measures for
success and target date
for review)
Week 1
Reflective
writing
I have effective
reflect on
things that I
have learned
during the
course.
I could also add
some of the
major
challenges that I
might face
while learning.
I have gained
knowledge
related to the
way
reflection is
written by
individuals.
To improve my reflective
writing till the end of July
2021.
Week 2
Critical
thinking
I am able to
think some of
the creative
ideas that are
useful in
professional
and personal
life.
I could have
find more
creative idea
that could be
useful for all
(Baruah, 2018).
I have gain
experience
related to the
way creative
thinking can
be developed.
To work on my critical
thinking skills for
professional development.
Week 3
Child Labour
I gain in depth
knowledge
related to child
labour (Kaur,
2020).
I may get more
detailed
information
related to child
labour.
I have
knowledge
related to
child labour
that helps me
in better
understanding
of subject
matter.
To get more information
about child labour.

Week 4
Critical
writing
I am able to
write only
positive point
of any topic.
I can add more
negative point
to the topic for
effective critical
writing.
I gain
knowledge
pertaining to
critical
writing
To improve my critical
writing for bright future
ahead.
Week 6
Child labour
in Global
Supply
Chains
I am able to
gathered
sufficient
information
related to
Child labour in
Global Supply
Chains
(Rodrigues,
2020).
I could make
use of internet
and other source
to gathered
sufficient
information
related to Child
labour in Global
Supply Chains.
It has helped
me in
learning
information
about child
labour in
context of
Global
Supply
Chains.
To gain more knowledge
related to child labour in
Global Supply Chains.

Reflection
From the above table there are crucial information that can be reflected such as the week 1
has helped me in learning crucial detailed related to child labour and its impact on society.
Moreover, it has helped me in developing critical thinking and writing skills so that I can find out
creative and innovative ideas to complete particular task. At the same time it has helped me in
gathering knowledge pertaining to child labour in context of Global Supply Chains becuase there
are many companies that have force children to work. That has resulted in huge poverty in the
society and causing harm or injuries to student and spoiling their career by not sending them to
schools for getting education (Kaur, 2020). At last it can also be stated from my prespective that
the reflection on the above topic has helped me in understanding the areas in which I lack and
needs to improve further for better outcome. So it can be concluded that I have learnt lot of things
during the weeks that will helps in my professional and personal career.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Baruah, J., 2018. Child Labour, Law and Society: An Appraisal. Research Journal of Humanities
and Social Sciences, 9(4), pp.886-888.
Kaur, M., 2020. Child Labour-Issues and Concerns.
Rodrigues, M.E., 2020. THE BITTER SWEAT”-A STUDY OF CHILD LABOUR.