Self-Reflection and Analysis of the Study Skills Module Experience

This assignment presents a student's self-reflective analysis of a study skills module, focusing on personal development and learning experiences. The student explores the importance of self-evaluation in gaining clarity and achieving success, highlighting the balance between emotion and reason as a key factor. The reflection delves into internal conflicts, particularly feelings of helplessness, and the need to transform weaknesses into strengths. The student discusses the impact of the module on their approach to forming relationships and building a professional outlook. The assignment also addresses challenges faced during teaching practice, emphasizing the role of confidence, communication skills, and the need for continuous improvement. The student identifies strengths like motivating power and consistency, while also acknowledging areas for development such as confidence and indecisiveness. The reflection concludes with a focus on practical application of the learned skills and the importance of seeking support to overcome challenges.

Self-Reflection on the Study Skills Module
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After the completion of the course, I realized the importance of self-reflection. Self-
evaluation helps to obtain a clear picture of our selves. Self-evaluation helps in cutting
down the confusion and vagueness and navigates us more easily towards success.
Every person has their own sets of qualities and flaws. No one is born perfect. It needs
hard work and effort to undergo personal development. During this course, I felt the
need and importance of the self-reflection process. I felt that balancing emotion and
reason is the key to success. Maintain a proper balance between the two, that is,
emotion and reason will prove to be beneficial in life (Rowe, 2017). I experienced
internal conflicts as well regarding various factors like strengths, weaknesses and many
more. Reflection or evaluation helps to pinpoint the positive as well as the negative
factors that have an impact on the entire situation. I felt like there is a need to improve
myself and turn my inabilities into my qualities. One of the most important aspects of the
internal conflicts that I experienced was the feeling of helplessness associated with it.
Helplessness, from a psychological standpoint, is one of the by-products of a loss of
self-control and is indicative of a coping attitude (Nuvvula, 2016). A self-reflective
exercise essentially allows an individual to have an objective perspective about
themselves and look at the learning and knowledge acquisition process in an evaluative
manner (Taylor et al., 2016). I’ve learned from my experience during this course and
going forward, my most important focus would be to have a much more open approach
towards forming friendships and become acquainted with a network of people who have
diverse interests and ideas.
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I also have flaws and positive traits which I need to hone to progress in life. Self-
reflection helps us to delve deeper and have a better understanding of ourselves
(Sherwood et al., 2021). Self-awareness is the ultimate key to success. Knowing own
strengths and weaknesses helps an individual to build an action plan that will help him
to improve. Although after the completion of the course I realized that there do exists
these factors which might create confusion and dilemma but we have the potential to
develop the areas of vulnerabilities and turn them into our strengths. In my teaching
practice sessions, I felt so helpless that I thought of leaving this career and start
something new. Figuring out my strength and weaknesses and working on them will
help me to improve my confidence level. Honing the positive attributes to gain
competency and working on the weaknesses to make them strong is the ultimate way to
ace in every sphere of life. Additionally, my sense of helplessness also came from a
lack of control over the external situation at the moment, which affected my learning
abilities as a whole (Rydzewska et al., 2017). My issues during the teaching practice
placement came as a result of a loss of confidence which is, partially, the result of this
feeling of helplessness and a lack of control over situations. Here too it is no different as
the study skills module was intended for a more personalised approach to the learning
process, and it was an engaging process for me. On the other hand, understanding
oneself is the key to a better future which is of utmost importance in regards to career
prospects. This would make it easier for me to see the world from different perspectives
gain a positive outlook about things. Additionally, speaking up about the feelings of
helplessness is a needed aspect for every individual as it allows for a moment of
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reflection and understanding, resulting in a much better orientation of self in the right
direction.
In my teaching practice placement, I fumble and lose confidence during my lectures.
The process of rectification helps an individual to improve their vulnerable areas.
Continuous rectification or development is the ultimate way to progress in life
ceaselessly without the slightest of halt. Also, gaining reflective skills can turn out to be
beneficial in the future professional front (Cherkis and Rosciano, 2018). Mastering the
art of understanding and assessing will help me in every sphere of life. In the
professional world, I will have the ability to solve a problem effectively by holding a
proper assessment and understanding a situation. Reflection helps to identify the
concealed factors or angles (Edwards, 2017). In this course, I have learned that
dilemma and confusion occur from a lack of confidence and indecisiveness. Boosting
our confidence level is important and I felt the urge to raise my confidence level.
Confidence and good communication skill is the key to success in today’s world. I have
moderate communication skills, improving them will enhance my confidence level. My
weaknesses are lack of confidence, indecisiveness and stagnancy of knowledge. On
the other hand, my strengths are motivating power and consistency. On the other hand,
a lack of practice in some aspects of my study area is also another reason for this loss
of confidence in specific areas of my course, which resulted in a cyclical process as a
whole (Brannan, White and Long, 2016). In regards to the stress and the sense of
helplessness that I experienced during my course the most logical course of action
would have to visit the university counselling centre and speak more about these
feelings which would've made things much easier for me. Additionally, this self-reflective
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process also allowed me to have a generalised idea about myself from a professional
standpoint that I can use to build upon in the future and broaden my scope of
understanding. From the module, I have gathered knowledge, which has enhanced my
skills also to grow my future. In regards to my deficits in some aspects of the courses, I
need to emphasise more on the aspect of practice and build upon it accordingly. By
following this, I should practise the skills more so that I can utilise them accordingly.
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