Weekly Reflective Journal on Personalized Learning & SWOT Analysis

This reflective journal documents a student's personalized learning journey over ten weeks, focusing on skill development and self-improvement. Each week's entry summarizes key topics, including self-introduction, reflection importance, SWOT analysis, academic writing, presentation skills, plagiarism, communication, interview techniques, and personal development planning (PDP). The journal includes a personal SWOT analysis identifying strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, followed by setting short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals to enhance management, note-taking, leadership, and self-reflection skills. The student aims to improve their skills through continuous learning, practical application, and feedback, with the ultimate goal of career advancement and academic excellence. The report concludes that self-analysis is essential for identifying individual skills and competencies and that the SWOT analysis aids in developing realistic goals.

Personalised Learning Weekly Reflective Journal
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Student Name and Student Number
HP

Introduction:
Personalized learning is the form of educational learning in the academic course in which a
customized learning material is provided to the students as per the potential to learn. In the
academic course learning this form of learning is highly preferred as this allows the student to
gain better learning for the subject. In the self reflection is also the part of learning as this
helps the person to analyse their self strengths and weaknesses which can be later improved
through personal development plan. The present report is the discussion on the learning of the
skills in 10 weekly sessions. Further in the report there is the self analysis using the SWOT
framework and personal development plan to improve the weaknesses.
Week 1
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills.
The week session was the introductory session on the topic called personalized learning. In this
session I have gained the learning about the how to self introduce myself quickly n group of
class. With the help of the game called human Bingo I have learned this skill. In order t develop
self and personalized learning skills I have been assigned with some assignments in which I
have to write my reflective learning and learn to develop my PDP. This session was very useful
to me in knowing my capabilities and the potential for learning new things.
Week 2
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills.
The second week session was on the importance of reflection. In this week session I have
learned on the subjects like How reflection will help in learning and why to write a reflection
before starting learning. In order to learn about the value of reflection and reflective learning I
have also learned about to reflective framework’s Kolb’s and Gibb’s learning cycle. Thus, this
whole week session was highly useful to me in gaining the self reflective skills. In order to
develop this skill the tutor has provided us a video to watch and then write three things I have
learnt from the video.
Week 3
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills.

In the week three I have learned about the how to write and apply the personal SWOT analysis.
I have learned that this framework will help me in analysing my-self strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats. I have learned in this week to how to reflect my own strengths and
weaknesses. I have also learnt that is not descriptive writing rather precise and straightforward
way to reflect one’s own skills. This week is highly useful to me in improve y self reflection
skills of writing and also through this I have gained observational and critical thinking skills in
gaining my own insight of personality.
Week 4
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills.
The fourth week was on the academic writing. In this week I have learned about why academic
writing is important for me as student and what the nature of academic writing is. In the session
there is also the discussion on the planning and process of the academic writing. This helped me
in improving my critical thinking skills. I have also learned about different forms of academic
writing such as literature review, dissertation, scientific report and much more. Thus to improve
my academic writing skills my tutor has assigned me to write academic writing report.
Week 5
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills.
The fifth week session was on writing skills. I have learned about the importance of writing
skills in which I have understood that in order to have effective writing skills it is important to
observe and gather evidence which helps in writing effective content. I have also learned that
writing helps in communicating and learning. In this week I have discussed about the structure
of the writing such as font style, size in MS word. The most important thing I have learnt in this
session was regarding the referencing and plagiarism.
Week 6
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills.
The topic for the 6th week discussion voice developing presentation skills in which I have
learned about identifying the key elements that are useful for developing a successful
presentation for which I have also learnt about recognition towards common presentation
pitfalls. This session was highly useful for me in learning how to develop an effective
presentation and also there was a reflection of my strengths and areas that I have strongly
represented in assessment of developing a presentation but they were required to be developed.

To develop this skill I have also improved by public speaking skills.
Week 7
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills. Use a minimum of one academic source and reference this.
Topic for the discussion of the 7th week was introduction to plagiarism and referencing in
which inverse to become a successful business student by dividing the progress is meant by
effectively applying the references in the writing content. In regard of this week discussion I
have learnt about synonyms, different spelling, paraphrases, and much more. Also learn about
how to replace the different academic writing using different academic sources and how to
avoid plagiarism using the adequate referencing.
Week 8
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills. Use a minimum of one academic source and reference this.
This week session was on the learning of the verbal communication skills. In this session I have
learned about different body language symbols and signs that are useful for effective
communication skills. This session was very useful to me learning about the presentation
pitfalls. This session was very useful to me learning about different aspects of improving the
verbal communication skills.
Week 9
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills. Use a minimum of one academic source and reference this.
The week 9 has a discussion on the interview skills and goal setting. This week session helped
in the development of the interview skills which are highly important for me to grow my career
and to crack my interview to attain the best job. To improve my career and to gain personal
professional growth I have also learned about goal setting skills in this week session.
Week 10
Please describe in less than 200 words what was discussed in this session and how you
plan to develop these skills. Use a minimum of one academic source and reference this.
The 10 week discussion was on PDP (Personal Development planning) skills this is all about
how to improve the areas that I am lacking in my professional and personal life. I ahve learnt

about the framework and structure of developing the PDP.
Personal Development Plan
Name: Degree pathway:
Student Number:
Part 1 – Personal Analysis
Strengths Areas for further development
 I have analysed that my
communication skills are my key
strength as during the weekly session
in the class discussion I have always
been interactive and communicative
with the tutor.
 I have every effective organising
skills as I am able to organise all my
things properly in an order.
 I have very poor management skills
that I must pay attention to in order
to improve them.
 I have poor note taking skills and to
grow professionally this skill is very
essential to be improved.
Opportunities Threats
 With my strength I have an
opportunity to gain the coordination
and delegation skills.
 I have an opportunity to learn time
management skills as for my future
this skills is must.
 My leadership skills are threat to my
personal and professional growth as
I have zero ability and potential to
lead an individual or a group.
 The lack of self reflection skills are
threat to my personal growth as due
to this I am not able to analyse the
barriers in my personalized learning
and career growth.
Part 2 - Setting goals
What do I want to
learn?
What do I have to
do?
How will I measure
success?
Target date for
review?
Management skills To improve my
management skills I
will learn different
management
theories as per the
different situation
I will look after my
leadership theory that
I have been using and
ask my colleagues to
measure my success
2 years

and then practice
those theories with
my skills to develop
effective
management skills.
through their review.
Note taking skills To improve my
note taking skills I
will maintain note
taking diary in
which I will create
the daily outline
notes.
I will review my
notes from the first
day of learning to the
current timing and
check my consistent
growth to rate my
success in measuring
the learning of note
taking skills
2 months
Leadership skills To improve my
leadership skills I
will learn some
leadership styles
that are important
as a leader and also
I will take initiative
for becoming
leader.
Through formative
feedback I will ask
my team members to
score me on my
leadership skills in
every month which
will useful to me in
measuring my
success in learning
the effective
leadership theories
and skills.
6 months
Self reflection
skills
To improve my self
reflection skills I
will read other
people reflective
journals and also I
will use different
templates of
reflective writing.
By reviewing my
different self
reflection template
that I have practised
and filled in a year
will be used as my
sheet to analyse and
measure my success
in gaining self
reflection skills.
1 year
Part 3 – Personal Objectives
Short-term goals (next 12 months)
My short term goals that will be achieved within 12 months:
 I have a goal to attain effective management skills for my future career growth.
 I have goal to achieve good time management skills as for the good progress and to

grab every opportunity of life time management is important to me.
Medium term goals (next 2-3 years):
My medium term goals are the one that will help me in seeking the ladder of my future
goals :
 I have goal to acquire the highest grades in my graduation and get merit and scholar
in order to gain best university for future studies.
 My goal is to develop a precise and informative CV for my future job opportunities.
Longer term goals (beyond 3 years)
My long term goals are the future based goals for which I will need years to achieve them:
 My goal is to get the top most position in the management department in the top
most organisations.
 I have the goal to get my post grad degree from top most university in business
management.
Conclusion
It is concluded from the above report that personal analysis important in order to analyse the
individual skills and capabilities. It is useful for the student or learner to analyse their own
skills and competencies by going through the weekly learning activities. Apart from this, for
personal analysis, SWOT has been conducted in order to identify the strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats which is helpful in develop long term, short and medium term goals
by developing weak skills as well.
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