Reflection on Academic Skills Development: Report and Analysis

This report provides a reflective analysis of the development of academic skills, focusing on the application of Gibbs Reflective Model. The student reflects on their experiences in developing various academic skills, including punctuality, decision-making, interpersonal skills, writing, critical thinking, and time management. The report highlights both positive and negative experiences, such as strengths in mathematical skills and weaknesses in English grammar. The student also outlines a personal development plan, identifying areas for improvement such as confidentiality and English skills, along with corresponding activities and evidence. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of academic skills for personal and intellectual growth and provides references to support the analysis.

Reflection, Critical
Thinking and Argument
Development

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are the way by which a person becomes success in graduate schools.
Academic skills includes writing, critical thinking, digital skills, employability, Maths, note
making, time manageable and many other skills (Votruba‐Drzal, Miller and Coley, 2016). This
present report will present a reflection on the development of academic skills by using Gibbs
Reflective model.
MAIN BODY
We know that academic skills are developed when a child enters in school and passing to
college for graduation. I have also developed academic skills when I was completing my
education. When I join my school, first thing I have learned in punctuality which is very
important for career development. When I was in 10th standard, I have to choose my field where I
have to go and continue my education like Science, Commerce or Arts where I have developed
my decision making skill because I have to evaluate my strength and weakness with academic
skills (Hosan and Hoglund, 2017). After the passing of time, I my college I have developed
interpersonal skills which is also very important in the development of personality. Further, I
have developed many skills which are writing, critical thinking, digital skills, employability,
Maths, note making, time manageable and many other skills.The experience I have got with my
academic session was amazing as it is all good. I am very good at all academic skills. Sometime,
I feel that I am legging behind in critical thinking, team work, problem solving, fluent speaking
(Kourakli and et.al., 2017). But still the experience was good. Beside this, my bad experience is
only with the subjec English. This is because I am very bad a grammar. Tenses and sentence
formation by which I cannot developed my English speaking skill. The positive things about my
experience of developing academic skills are that it makes me confidential and develop my
personality. I have start valuing my time as I understood that once time gone it will never be
reveal. Another positive things about these academic skills is that now I can make difference in
what is wrong and right by developing these skills. Another positive things is that I am very good
at Mathematical sklll, i used to calculate very fast and accurate. On the other hand, the negative
things I got is that English skills are very important in each filed like in science subject,
accountancy and all types of competition exams. I cannot able to crack these exams just because
I am lacking behind in English skills. Academic skills are very important for all the person living
on the earth because it makes a real person. Everyone have to developed these skills as it makes
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the person literate and educated (Ansari and Crosnoe, 2015). According to my experience, it is
not necessary to run in race for achieving first position, but knowledge is very important which
can only be developed by these academic skills.
Personal Development Plan
Skills to be developed Activities by which
skills are developed
Evidence Time Taken
Confidentiality By thinking always
positive.
Talking to people.
Watching videos of
Germs.
Taking feedback from
family, peers, seniors,
tutors and friends.
1 month
English Skills By taking coaching
and tuitions.
By practising.
By watching videos of
solving problems by
tricks.
By the result of my
competition exams.
By taking feedback
from family, peers,
seniors, tutors and
friends.
3 months
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Ansari, A. and Crosnoe, R., 2015. Immigration and the interplay of parenting, preschool
enrollment, and young children’s academic skills. Journal of Family Psychology, 29(3),
p.382.
Hosan, N.E. and Hoglund, W., 2017. Do Teacher–Child Relationship and Friendship Quality
Matter for Children's School Engagement and Academic Skills?. School Psychology
Review, 46(2), pp.201-218.
Kourakli, M and et.al., 2017. Towards the improvement of the cognitive, motoric and academic
skills of students with special educational needs using Kinect learning games. International
Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 11, pp.28-39.
Votruba‐Drzal, E., Miller, P. and Coley, R.L., 2016. Poverty, urbanicity, and children's
development of early academic skills. Child Development Perspectives, 10(1), pp.3-9.
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