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Assignment 1b Reflective Essay/Action Plan

This part of the assignment requires you write a reflective essay and an action plan on the personal development topics.

Deadline: 10am Friday, 14th December 2018

Reflective Essay

Personal development planning means being able to analyse the way you tackle different situations and identify ways in which you can become more effective. In the employer survey we looked at in the lecture in week 3 we saw that this is one of the skills that employers value but find lacking in candidates.

This essay is very different to the formal report you submitted for Assignment 1a. As a reflective essay it should be written in the first person style (“I feel that my preference is..”). You are writing about yourself. There is no need to include references this time.

You will need to take part in the activities in each of the weekly seminars (which include group decision making and the planning and delivery of a group oral presentation) and you need to reflect on your performance.

We are looking for reflective writing, which means that not only should you describe what happened in the seminar and what topics were covered, but you should also discuss how the topics covered relate to you.

We are looking for evidence of:

· Self-evaluation and demonstration that you understand how you approach tasks

· Analysis of your own behaviour

· The capacity to modify your ways of working to become more effective

· Demonstration that you can become an independent learner

Your reflective essay should be around 2000 words (+/- 10%) and must include the following:

· Your oral presentation skills – Include the group presentation given in Week 10. What aspects do you need to work on next time you have to give a presentation?

Note that the presentation from Week 9 will be assessed and comprise 25% of the marks for Assignment 1b.

· Your written communication skills - Include the formal written report for Assignment 1a

· Your team role preference (Belbin) and a discussion of the evidence for this. What result did the questionnaire produce? How have you performed in the group activities completed in the seminars so far?

· Your learning style - Honey and Mumford (Activist/Reflector/Theorist/ Pragmatist), covered in the seminars. What result did the questionnaire produce? How productive have you been in different learning situations such as lectures, practicals, seminars?

· Your Learning Power (ELLI) – Illustrate your ELLI profile. Which are your strongest and weakest dimensions? What reasons do you have for believing this? Give example situations that illustrate this.

· Your self 'MAP' (Motivation, Ability and Personality) including

· A discussion of your primary motivation (mastery v performance) covered in Week 8 and the impact this might have on your studies/career

· Your abilities and aptitudes – What things are you good at and what things are more difficult for you? How have you found the work and assignments and activities so far?

· Your personality type based on the MBTI tool and a discussion of how accurate you feel it is and what implications it may have for learning and career.

· A brief discussion of your career objectives including any detail on the skills requirements needed for applicants to that role.

You should NOT define any of the ideas/theories and there is no need to explain what they are or provide any references. This is a reflective exercise. You should write in the first person (“I feel that”) in an informal style.

Action Plan

The action plan should identify at least three relevant, well defined actions that you can plan to take in order to develop some of the areas you have identified as important and will help you with to help you with your personal, academic and professional development (i.e. important for your career plans or important in order to do well in your studies) or that you particularly need (due to your current levels not being high).

Actions should be tangible (clearly defined things you can do or attend) and time- based. (You should say when you will do them). The required format for presenting the action plan is as follows:

	Goal (i.e. improve commercial awareness)	Action (ie. attend “Develop in Brighton” conference as student volunteer)	Target Date (ie. July 2019)
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Submission

The summary essay and action plan should be presented as a Microsoft Word document and submitted online using the appropriate link on BREO by the deadline. Details of this process will be published on BREO.

Advice

· Plagiarism will be heavily penalised and in severe cases may result in a G grade.

· Give yourself time to be thoughtful about what you have noticed and how you may try to work in the future.

· Study the task and the marking criteria - these will give you guidance!

· Be sure to include each of the specified topics.

· Plan your time. Use the University facilities early to avoid the inevitable congestion later in the term.

· Give yourself time to produce an integrated, well-structured essay which shows reflection.

Assignment 2A – Reflective Essay/Action Plan

Task	F/E 0-39%	D 40-49%	C 50-59%	B 60-69%	A 70-100%
Contribution to group presentation in Week 10 25%	No contribution	Minimal contribution – took part but poorly planned and delivered	Some effort but weaknesses in planning or delivery	Most topics and tools addressed	Excellent professional presentation.
Coverage of topics (in reflective essay) 25%	Little overlap with required set of topics	Major omissions in coverage of topics and tools	Some important topics or tools not mentioned	Most topics and tools addressed	All topics and tools covered.
Personal reflective commentary and analysis in reflective essay 25%	Little attempt to reflect	Some attempt made to reflect but very limited in depth.	Key points identified but insufficient depth	Key points identified with some attempt at deeper discussion.	Full of insight and showing understanding and personal development.
Areas identified for further consideration – the action plan 25%	Little or no attempt at action plan	Little consideration of areas needing further investigation. Actions lacking in detail or appropriateness or relevance.	Action plan present but unbalanced, inappropriate or naive view of areas for further consideration or development	Action plan present and Identifies some appropriate areas for further consideration or development	Systematic identification of areas for further consideration or personal development

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