MN4W50QA - Final Learning Reflection: Professional Practice Module

This report presents a student's comprehensive learning reflection on their professional practice, personal development, and academic growth within an organizational context. The reflection covers key learnings from a module, focusing on areas such as negotiation skills, emotional intelligence, and academic writing. The student evaluates their feelings, analyses their progress, and concludes with actionable plans for future development in each area. The report also includes weekly learning logs and personal development plans, demonstrating a structured approach to self-improvement and skill enhancement. References to relevant academic literature are provided, supporting the reflective analysis with established theories and practices. This assignment is contributed by a student and available on Desklib, a platform offering various study tools for students.

MN4W50QA
Professional Practice –
Learning Through Organisations
Project 2: Final Learning Reflection
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Contents page
Introduction …………………………………………………...…………………...….. 3
Learning Reflection:
Professional Development …………………. ……………………………..…….…. 3
Personal Development …………………………..…………………..……...…….…. 4
Academic Development …………….……….……………………………...…….…. 5
Conclusion …………………………………….……………………………………….. 5
References …………………………………….……………………………………….. 6
Appendix 1 – Weekly Learning Logs …………...………………………..…….…... 7
Appendix 2 – Copies of PDP Development Episodes………………………….... 8

Introduction
In a person's life, self reflection plays a very important role as it makes him or her
to think about themselves, meditate on, examine and provide serious thought to the
attitudes, behaviours, motivations, thoughts and desires. While, in career
development, it defines the process of self exploration, knowledge and decision-
making that makes the career. Through self-reflection, a person can think about
themselves that what they want to achieve in their life or in what field that want to
grow their career. In this project, with the use of reflective model, there is an
evaluation about what is achieved in respect of personal development, professional
development and academic development.
Professional Development
Description: I have got the opportunity to learn module and attend all the
workshops of week 1 to 11. In this module, I have learned about several things
which was helpful to develop my career professionally. This module help me to
analyse my skills, in which field I want to grow my career, how I can attend
interview to get the desired jobs, how I make CV impactful. This module also
helped me to improve my negotiation skills through which I can deal with employer
to raise my pay-scale and so on. In other week, I have learned about the how I can
balance my professional and personal life. Moreover, I came to learn how I can
push myself and expand my comfort zone. In business world, it is also vital for me
to improve my problem solving skills so that I can resolve issues raised by my
colleagues.
Feelings: I was excited to attend this module and sessions as I have learned about
so many new things which could help me to grow in certain area. On the other side,
I have also get confused as all the sessions would based on various skills and I did
not able to acknowledge the certain skill in which I would basically to develop or
enhance.
Evaluation: With the help of my tutors and teacher's guidance, I understood that
negotiation skills should be developed by me.
Analysis: With the help of action plan, I could develop my negotiation skills.

Conclusion: From this module, I have gained the knowledge of professionally
skilled person that what skills or knowledge should a person has in order build in
his or her career. Also, this will also help in creating action plan to develop key
areas.
Action Plan: As this module helped me to identify the key areas in which I can
grow and get the desired job, I will also ensure that the teacher's guidance will take
me to the right direction and also help me to make growth plan for the career in
which certain time period will be mentioned.
Personal Development
Description: Week 1, 4 and 10 are the sessions in which I have learned about the
personal development. I have been suggested to attend this modules which could
help me to grow personally which is also important for a person.
Feelings: I believe there are many areas at which I am week and and I could do
better if those areas will be improved and developed. As a person, sometimes I feel
anxiety and nervousness due to the deficiency in many key areas such as poor self-
leadership, emotional intelligence and many other key areas.
Evaluation: This is the stage where I have evaluated that I need to improve self-
leadership skills, together with emotional intelligence which is important for a person
to be strong individually.
Analysis: It has been analysed that self-leadership skills will help me to guide
myself that what should be done or not, it will also improve me to do my task on time
and in an efficient way. Emotional intelligence will help me to not get emotional on
certain things and to get the work done productively.
Conclusion: This is concluded that all of the key areas such as emotional
intelligence and self-leadership are important for an individual's life. It is found that
the person should develop himself or herself in a personal and professional way.
Action Plan: I will identify the sources through which I can grow in those areas as
well as track these skills so that it would be attained in certain time-frame.
Academic Development

Description: In order to develop and improve academic skills, I have gained the
opportunity to attend the sessions Week 1, 3 and 6. In each week, I have learned
about different skills by analysing each and every week appropriately.
Feelings: I was bit nervous as I was new to the sessions where everybody was
new and unknown to me. My teachers and classmates were very supportive and
encourage me to ward hard for the development of academic skills.
Evaluation: I have learned about the academic writing and how to reference the
information which is taken from other authors and writers. I have realised to not
duplicate and copy the content of others as it is against the ethics and raised to
plagiarism.
Analysis: I have analysed that these skills would help me to create my own
content and also secure me not copy information or knowledge of other people.
Conclusion: It has been concluded that these skills would help me to do work in
an ethical way and respect the rules and principles of higher education.
Action Plan: My mentors will guide me to do work in a right way. Also, I will
attempt ethical work and also encourage my fellow mates to do task without
cheating and put references to their work.
Conclusion
It has been concluded that all the sessions and weeks 1 to 11 were important as an
individual person as it helps in developing several professional, personal and
academic skills. Attending such module helps in knowing what skills are required to
develop and enhance. It is important for the person to develop action plan to fill the
gaps between skills and knowledge.

Reference List
Use London Met Referencing Guide
https://student.londonmet.ac.uk/media/london-metropolitan-university/london-met-
documents/professional-service-departments/library-services/referencing/
HarvardReferencingGuideFull2016-05.pdf
Molla, T. and Nolan, A., 2020. Teacher agency and professional practice. Teachers and
Teaching, 26(1), pp.67-87.
Karban, K. and et.al., 2021. Accounting for social perspectives: An exploratory study of approved
mental health professional practice. The British Journal of Social Work, 51(1), pp.187-204.
Kelchtermans, G., 2018. Professional self-understanding in practice: Narrating, navigating and
negotiating. In Research on teacher identity (pp. 229-240). Springer, Cham.
Higgs, J., 2018. Judgment and reasoning in professional contexts. In Textbook of Catheter-Based
Cardiovascular Interventions (pp. 15-25). Springer, Cham.
Ulla, M.B., 2022. Exploring early-career EFL teachers’ engagement in professional learning: Teaching
beliefs and professional values. RELC Journal, p.00336882221080197.

Appendix 1 – weekly learning logs (weeks 1 to 12)
Week 1: In this week, I have got the opportunity to assess and examine skills and
knowledge in which I need improvement and development to attain the ultimate
goal of my career.
Week 2: My mentors help me to analyse in which should grow and build my
career.
Week 3: This week help me understand the importance of academic writing.
Week 4: This week I have realised how I can improve my emotional intelligence
skills.
Week 5: My mentors assist me to make an attractive CV for the desired job.
Week 6: This week support me how I can give best interview and to get the job.
Week 7: Negotiation skills was the part of this week.
Week 8: This week involves the coaching skill and how I can balance my life in
respect of professional and personal work.
Week 9: This week was based on how I can resolve the problems of my
colleagues in the business.
Week 10: I have realised that self-leadership skill is also very important to motivate
and direct own self.
Week 11: This week was based on I can push my comfort level and go beyond
that to improve myself.

Appendix 2 – Four Personal Development Plans (PDP)
Skills or
knowledge
Resources How will I
measure the
success?
Time frame
Emotional
intelligence
I will try to
manage my
negative feelings
and emotions.
When I do my
work without
getting affected by
emotions.
One year
Self-leadership
skills
I try to analyse
things before
implementing
practically.
I will try to seek
feedback .
Three years
Problem skills I will think different
options and
implement the
best one.
The attained aims
will define
the
success in
this area.
One to two years
Balance life I will watch others
and inspire from
them to balance
both professional
work and personal
work.
My mental peace
will define the
success.
Two years