714N1 – Personal and Professional Development

Please read the following information very carefully
Throughout this module you will be required to produce a Learning Portfolio, which
will form part of your assessment. A Learning Portfolio represents a collection of
your own thoughts, questions and feelings related to the topics and activities that
we will be studying. This will include a critical evaluation and reflection of your
learning and experience in the lecture and during the lecture activities.
The purpose of writing a Learning Portfolio is to help you develop as an independent
learner. It aims to assess you as a reflective learner, for your effort in thinking
around subjects and for evidence of your reading and critical thinking. Therefore, it
will directly help your self-development. The Learning Portfolio will also provide
evidence of your progress and ongoing performance.
You will be asked to submit your Learning Portfolio A3, Week 3 (word limit is
2,500).
Guidelines to keeping a Learning Portfolio
Your portfolio should contain one entry for each of the core topics covered in
Lectures 1-5. Given that there are five core topics, you may wish to devote around
400 words reflecting on ONE activity that you participated in each lecture and relate
it to the topics discussed in the lecture. We have provided you with a sample activity
reflection sheet at end of this document. Please complete the sample activity
reflection sheet after each lecture. These activity reflection sheets should appear in
your appendix and are not part of your word count. For each entry, you MUST
provide a summary of the activity reflection sheet in the proper essay format.
However, it is fine for you to use personal pronouns (e.g. ‘I’, ‘me’ and etc.). You must
highlight what you have learnt from the activity with examples that provide evidence
of your learning and how you intend to use the skills developed in the activity in the
future. In addition, you must relate your learning experience to the theories
discussed in the relevant lectures. For example, if you choose to reflect on one of the
‘Skills Assessments’ Questionnaires, discuss how your answers may have changed
from first administration (i.e. before or during the lecture on the specific topic) to
the final administration (i.e. after the relevant lecture or the final lecture). You may
choose to reflect on the fact that your answers have changed because you have
become more familiar with the theory for which the self-assessment questionnaire
relates. As another example, you may choose to discuss one of the group activities
and how you have developed personally and professionally. While discussing your
personal and professional development based on this activity, you may want to cite
relevant theories that link to the activity.
You also need to include an introduction section in the beginning and a brief
conclusion at the end. These sections should be around 500 words. An introduction
section should explain how you went through the process of completing the activity
reflection sheets. Here, you may want to discuss what your initial feelings were and
your expectations in the beginning. A brief conclusion should summarise your
reflection from moving from the first topic to the last one and summarise your
overall learning experience.
You may choose to include information relating to areas of your life outside your
study, but the focus should be on how the areas of your life outside of study are
affecting your learning process within this module. You should aim to analyse and
reflect, not just to describe.
A good entry will:
• Be written in a fairly personal style, using the first person singular (e.g. I)
• Link the reflection to the appropriate theory or theories
• Analyse, critique and comment, not just describe
• Focus on your learning process
• Make connections between ideas – these may come from the lectures, your
own reading and/or discussions with others
• Show evidence of planning
• Show evidence of looking back
• Show evidence that you are reflecting on your progress
• Reflective action – how are you going to change your behaviour in light of
your learning?
Your Learning Portfolio will also help you to:
1. Demonstrate your ability to master the major topics of the module
2. Best represent your strengths; articulate and track accomplishments in and
outside the classroom
3. Link experiences and achievements within and between classes
4. Recognise emerging patterns in your programs and areas of interest, leading to
more focus and better justification and substantiation of subsequent decisions
and choices
5. Self-analyse and reflect; to develop your own learning curve; increase levels of
self-understanding and your self confidence as well as clarity of purpose and
levels of motivation (in the lectures)
6. Be more proactive in planning and pursuing your educational and post-graduate
opportunities

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