Unit 6.1 How to plan for Personal and Professional development

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1.1 Benefits of personal development

          

Working on your personal development is not only essential for your own self-improvement, but can also help you thrive professionally.

You’ll figure out what you want to do

By carrying out ongoing personal development, you’ll be learning more about your abilities and aspirations.

You’ll figure out where your values, beliefs, and values lie, not to mention uncover a clearer purpose for what you’re doing – both on a personal and professional level.

You’ll be able to make clear goals

By figuring out more about yourself, you’ll be able to set clear and well-informed goals.

Whether it’s that taking a course helped you realise what career you’d like to pursue, or learning a new language made you want to travel – expanding your knowledge is a great way to help you make good decisions about your future.

Not only will you realise what you do want to do, you’ll also be able to rule out paths that might not suit you as much as you thought.

You will be motivated

With clear and achievable targets, you’ll be more motivated to actually fulfil them – especially if you have a personal development plan to track your progress.

This means you’ll be more productive in carrying out the tasks you set yourself (whether it’s at work, study, or home) – and you’ll be more likely to complete them to a high standard.

After all, it’s the only way you’ll achieve your goals.

You’ll get a better work-life balance

If you’re not feeling fulfilled in your current job, allowing yourself some personal development time is a great way to improve your work-life balance.

By carrying out your own learning and development, you’ll not only be improving your morale, confidence, and knowledge, you could also be improving your career prospects – whether it’s to gain a promotion, new job, or a career change.

Doing something you love and boosting your CV at the same time? It’s basically a no-brainer.

1.2 Identify development opportunities for career and personal progression

      

It could actually be a great way to achieve your career goals. You will improve your career prospects.

And it’s not just what you learn that could help you thrive at work; by making your commitment to personal development clear to employers, you’ll be able to demonstrate dedication and an ability to learn and grow.

With most employers seeking candidates who are willing to progress within an industry, you could be well on your way to landing your dream role.

1.3 Analyse the development opportunities that may support career and personal progression.

Analyzing Personal Teaching Metaphors in Preservice Teacher Education as a Means for Encouraging Professional Development. Using data drawn from 22 students enrolled in a year-long teacher certification program, the authors explore the analysis of personal teaching metaphors as a means for facilitating the professional development of beginning teachers. Strengths and weaknesses of the approach are identified, and implications for the practice of teacher education discussed.

2.1 Explain the principles of how people learn

Personal Learning Environments – the future of eLearning
Graham Attwell
Pontydysgu
Summary

This paper explores some of the ideas behind the Personal Learning Environment and considers why PLEs might be useful or indeed central to learning in the future. This is not so much a technical question as an educational one, although changing technologies are key drivers in educational change.

The paper starts by looking at the changing face of education and goes on to consider the different ways in which the so-called ‘net generation’ is using technology for learning.
It goes on to consider some of the pressures for change in the present education systems. The idea of a Personal Learning Environment recognises that learning is ongoing and seeks to provide tools to support that learning.

It also recognises the role of the individual in organising his or her own learning. Moreover, the pressures for a PLE are based on the idea that learning will take place in different contexts and situations and will not be provided by a single learning provider. Linked to this is an increasing recognition of the importance
of informal learning.

The paper also looks at changing technology, especially the emergence of ubiquitous computing and the development of social software.

The paper believes that we are coming to realise that we cannot simply reproduce previous forms of learning, the classroom or the university, embodied in software. Instead, we have to look at the new opportunities for
learning afforded by emerging technologies.

Social software offers the opportunity to narrow the divide between producers and consumers. Consumers themselves become producers, through creating and sharing. One implication is the potential for a new ecology of ‘open’ content, books, learning materials and multimedia, through learners themselves becoming
producers of learning materials.

Social software has already led to the widespread adoption of portfolios for learners, bringing together learning from different contexts and sources of learning and providing an ongoing record of lifelong learning, capable of expression in different forms.

The paper considers how Personal Learning Environments might be developed through the aggregation of different services.

The final section provides examples of practices that show how PLEs may be used in the future.

The changing ways we learn. When any new technology is introduced we tend to
ape older paradigms in implementation. Consider the motor car. It was initially called a horse-less carriage and the law demanded a man walked in front of it carrying a red flag. So it is with educational technologies.

The development of the internet gave rise to the virtual classroom and the virtual university. Institutions sought to control internet based learning through Learning Management Systems and Virtual Learning Environments. Slowly we are coming to realise that we cannot simply reproduce previous forms of learning – the classroom or the university embodied in software. Such environments can be pretty sterile places.

And of course young people realise this. Course based on bulletin boards can
be very lonely. Slowly we are discovering – or rather learners are discovering new uses of the technologies for learning. Instant messaging, file sharing, social
networking. And of course blogging. A growing number of reports have documented how the so called net generation use computers in their
everyday life.

2.2 Describe different learning styles

Learning Styles

• Visual (spatial):You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding.
• Aural (auditory-musical): You prefer using sound and music.
• Verbal (linguistic): You prefer using words, both in speech and writing.
• Physical (kinesthetic): You prefer using your body, hands and sense of touch.
• Logical (mathematical): You prefer using logic, reasoning and systems.
• Social (interpersonal): You prefer to learn in groups or with other people.
• Solitary (intrapersonal): You prefer to work alone and use self-study.

2.3 Evaluate learning resources to support development

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2.4 Analyse the use of different learning strategies

• LECTURE METHOD.  A lecture is an oral presentation of information by the instructor. …
• THE DISCUSSION METHOD. Discussion involves two-way communication between participants. …
• THE DEMONSTRATION LESSON. …
• BUZZ GROUPS. …
• BRAINSTORMING. …
• ROLE PLAYS..