Achieving Success in Higher Education Through Reflective Learning

This essay explores the concept of reflective learning and its significance for achieving success in higher education. It delves into the application of the Gibbs reflective model to analyze personal experiences and identify areas for skill development. The essay also examines the nature of feedback and feed forward, highlighting their role in informing and improving future formative and summative assessments. It emphasizes how a reflective approach can enhance self-awareness, build essential skills like communication and team management, and foster continuous improvement for long-term career effectiveness. The study concludes that consistent self-evaluation and the integration of expert feedback are crucial for making informed decisions and setting appropriate goals for career development in higher education. Desklib provides a platform to access similar resources for students.

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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
Reflection and reflective approach to learning, using a relevant model of reflection Gibbs reflection
model.......................................................................................................................................................3
Nature of feedback and feed forward and model for reflection on feedback and feed forward................5
Reflective approach to feedback and feed forward can inform and improve future formative and
summative assessments...........................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Reflective learning is process where individual learn skills with identification of future
requirement and its long term benefits. It helps to build great future performance with sustainable
manner because of regular analysis of skills practices (Jones, Ruge and Jones, 2022). I analyzed
from my past experience that I do have quality to communicate with any individual with great
manner. Also I decide that I also have to build my career in as market executive because of I
have capability to develop good marketing of products and services and managed good relation
with customer as well. This study will develop information how individual can use reflective
learning fir their future effectiveness, includes with Gibbs reflection model which develop better
understanding for perfect subject or area selection for success in higher education and long term
benefits. Also it will discuss how reflective feedback and feed forward can useful for inform
future information with great manner where individual can build clarity that this specific skill
requires for my career growth.
MAIN BODY
Reflection and reflective approach to learning, using a relevant model of reflection Gibbs
reflection model

Description: From my school experience I do have clarity that I do have good communication
skills because teacher always appropriates me when I participate into multiple events. So I
evaluate that I decide to build my career in marketing, thus I selected that I develop education
expansion for future effectiveness in masters of marketing management because its beneficial for
future and career growth (O’Brien, 2022).
Feelings: I thought when I select this option that I have so many good skills but multiple skills I
don’t have so I have to learn those as well. I identified and included skills which I don’t have like
management skills, w
ork distribution skills, team work, time management and many more. Because I evaluated that
these all skills are very essential for future benefits.
Evaluation: I evaluated from my past experience that I do have to build my career in market
because it has different range of options and future benefits from enter into this field. I clearly
evaluate that when I decide to build future growth in this area I do have to learn different range
of skills and practices like team management because I have lack of management its negatively
impacts on future effectiveness.
Analysis: I analyze that I am not able to manage my team members so it affects on my future
effectiveness and my leadership award so I decide that in case this same situation will be
happened into future like when I become marketing executive I do have to manage large number
of people (Ghaith and Awada, 2022).
Conclusion: From the identification of my past experience when its clear that I do have clarity
that I have to build my career in marketing area with perfect higher education application so its
requires continues skills development process from perfect learning because its useful for my
long term efficiency.
Action plan: I do have clarity from my positive and negative past experience that I do have to
learn various skills from participates into different area, taken education from great collage and
many more because application and utilization of this term defiantly raise my career benefits. Its
clear from the conclusion or model reflection practices that learning of new and require skills has

power to raise individual performance with great manner because it helps to develop higher
efficiency in future growth.
Nature of feedback and feed forward and model for reflection on feedback and feed forward
Nature of feedback: In context of success in higher education of individual feedback helps to
students that what they really wants to gain, develop, learn from current performance evaluation.
Teachers mainly use this key to provide information to student that individual has this specific
skill which provides benefits into future.
Nature of feed forward: It is assignment process where experts provide idea for how to do
better and effective work with continues work hard and learning process. Feed forward in terms
of reflective learning process individual develop clarity that if communication is good then its
not essential that it makes positive results in future, it also requires some specific skills like team
management, leadership skills, time management, uses of technology for product marketing and
target customer evaluation skills from digital sources and many more (Wesely, 2021).
Uses of feedback and feed forward in model for reflection
Gibbs reflective model helps to creates more clarity and it provides guidance that what kind of
skills mainly requires for my future effectiveness; also it helps to gives best ideas for higher
efficiency expansion in higher education. I analyses from the model and from my teacher’s
feedbacks into class that I am good in communication but it requires more skills like time
management, presentation, digital technology management skills, human resource management
and many more. From the feedback its been clear that I have to build team management skills
with participates into collage events become leader. Because leadership skill is key aspect for
managing large number of people with sustainable manner and I analyzed from the feedback that
most import thing for my future in higher education is to learn digital technology and maintain
good relation with customer for long term customer attraction (Niaz and Mistry, 2021).
Thus, idea of all the essential term its been clear that I do have to participate into collage
events and marketing competitions, also participates into marketing essential digital technology
tools because it helps to provide multiple range of benefits to become marketing expert. I analyze

that Gibbs reflective model is useful for career growth it gives proper ideas that this specific
skills are also very essential for future benefits.
Reflective approach to feedback and feed forward can inform and improve future formative and
summative assessments
From the feedback and feed forwards of my reflection with model practices its been clearly
evaluated that I do have to learn management skills because its very clear that when I participate
into organization as marketing employee I do have to perform task within team. And then I get
promoted by my senior authority I do have to manage team because marketing executive has
duty to manage different employee work performance. I analyze from my past evaluation and
feedbacks from experts like my teachers raise my confidence level that I am good speaker but I
have lack of confidence and eye contact with audience so I decide that I have to learn this skill
(Jung and Wise, 2020).
So for the learning of this skill I decide and I participate into collage presentation
functions and other cultural activities where I build eye contact with audience which is useful for
cracking interview in retail industry where company mainly prefer to engage appropriate
marketing expert for their growth. I analyze that feedback is useful but without having feed
forward I am not able to decide my future goals. Because of experts motivation and their
guidance I decide to build skills with taking higher education for my success and extra classes
for technology skills advancement with participate into organization where company mainly
provide how to use technology for best and effective product marketing.
Also, from the feedback and feed forward I do have clarity and consistency that I do have
to build more focuses and consideration on my future effectiveness. And its very effective
approach that when individual have idea to manage their performance they do have to raise
higher concern and focuses on the effective performance development with regular practices and
continue evaluation and practices of require practices. I do have potential to manage time but
from the expert feedback its clearly evaluate that I am lazy in completing my work so this term
and lack of skills also impacts on performance. Idea of this term I clearly decide that I do have to
build higher consideration and focuses towards with the application of appropriate resources
where I get learn multiple things with great manner.

From the feed forward I analyses that experts or professors mainly provide instruction
that career development in specific field is not easier task because it takes different range of
skills combination. Having multiple skills is the only option which helps to build career with
continues manner. Its been clear that application of reflective practices has power to make clarity
in terms of managing services with great manner (Matsuo and Nagata, 2020).
CONCLUSION
It has been summarized from the above reflective study that Gibbs reflection model helps
to give exact information on the basis of past to future experience and career effectiveness with
proper consideration and focuses towards with the appropriate goals for career development.
This study has been properly provided information for successful career orientation expansion
which type of skills and practices mainly requires. I decide that I have to get higher education in
masters in marketing field but I don’t have specific goals that in which area of department I do
have to choose so this term gets very difficult and it badly impacts on my selection of wrong
criteria. It has been also identified that from the feedbacks and feed forward from experts is the
best tool which clearly provides guidance that which type of skills and practices essential for
building career in specific field.

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