Reflection of personal professional development

Module 6: Personal Professional Development

Learning Outcomes: Understand Learning Process.

Task 3.

Task 3:

From looking at the key influences on my personal learning and development, I identified and explained how and why six key influences affect my learning. These key influences were: time, friends, aspirations, employment, lifestyle and motivation.

My personal learning and development may help to benefit others, such as service users, peer group, friends and family for a number of reasons, whether it benefits the groups in the present or future.

My peer group could benefit from my personal learning process because I would be able to provide feedback from my experiences and any new skills or information I had gained I would be able to give guidance and pass on to my peers.

Service Users would be able to benefit from my learning process because any mistakes I made I would be able to learn from them for the future. As I personally developed I would be able to provide service users with the knowledge they are safe and that I was well practiced and capable of carrying out required tasks by them. Personally from experience I would have gained confidence and that confidence I portrayed to the service user would give them confidence that they were safe.

Working with service users gains any individual experience and each of us as learners can pass on methods, skills and information which increase the quality of care the service users receive.

Family and friends could benefit from my personal learning process due to my personal attributes being developed as I learned new things. I would be able to advise and give guidance to both family and friends when they encountered situations that were new to them but only if I have knowledge that would be of use to pass on.

The benefit that my peer group could receive from my ...

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Working with service users gains any individual experience and each of us as learners can pass on methods, skills and information which increase the quality of care the service users receive.

The benefit that my peer group could receive from my personal learning process would be the motivation that they would gain. This motivation would be beneficial as it may improve their learning process because they would feel motivated to complete their work and increase their knowledge in competition with my learning development.

My peer group would also benefit from my learning process as I would be able to provide feedback on the ability to complete tasks better next time; I would be able to offer provisional planning on advancing both my learning process and theirs. This refers to Kolb’s learning theory, stage four – abstract conceptualisation.

When reviewing Kolb’s learning theory stages, you can see how every individual learning process fits the stages.

For example:

Concrete Experience

This is the ‘doing stage’ where you participate in an action(s).

You are providing personal care to a service user when you accidently roll them over too quickly and they pass a bowel movement.

Reflective Observation

The stage in which you personally reflect on the concrete experience.

After the experience, you think about how and why the service user passed a bowel movement.

Abstract Conceptualisation

This is the decision and planning stage where the information gained from the experience is analysed and understood.

You begin to understand that moving the service user quickly may have caused them to be frightened and feeling unsafe.

Active Experimentation

This stage is the planning of Kolb’s cycle so that you can learn from the first concrete experience in order to conduct it again revised – implementing the plan.

Here you would identify that in order to avoid the concrete experience happening again you must move the service user slowly and allow time for the service to understand the process of what is happening. After this realisation you would be able to implement the plan again forming another concrete experience.

For service users the benefit would be greatly received because they would value your determination, commitment and confidence.

As each learner discovers new experiences and skills, qualifications and knowledge, we are able to devise plans of actions, methods and ways of conducting the methods and actions. This benefits the service user but is a process that is conducted and learnt through peer and personal learning.

Family and friends benefit majorly from your personal learning process because they see you develop and as learn. The development could be personal attributes becoming stronger or knowledge being increased.

Motivation can be passed from my own personal learning process to peers, friends and family. As my learning process broadens, groups around me would be motivated to increase their learning ability in order to develop themselves.

As I have discussed and explained in this report you can see that from my personal learning process I am able to pass on motivation, skills, information, advice and guidance, knowledge, experiences, feedback, methods and plans of actions to my peers. I am able to pass on confidence, knowledge of safety, experience, information and plans of action to service users. I am also able to pass on personal attributes, information, knowledge, skills advice and motivation to my friends and family through the outcomes of my personal learning process.

Whether any of the factors discussed in this report affect peers, service users, family and friends, now or in the future, they are all able to learn from me as I am able to learn from them.

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