PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND REFLECTIVE PRACTICE
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My Past Experiences
When I reflect on my past experiences, the assignments or projects that I took up when I joined any organisation, were that of a novice and decisions taken were tentative and rule bound. As years passed by with experience, the application of rules became more automatic and the long term goals became more clear and visible. Procedures that I applied, have become more simple with stress levels sliding down..
Earlier, when organising events, I used to get tensed easily and prefered to work by myself than delegating. I have noticed in course of time, with experience and changes, I have learnt to delegate work and organise events smoothly. Schon (1983,1987) has said that professional practice depends on knowing-in-action, and I agree with him. According to Schon , reflective practice requires a deep level of open and honest critique which few of us can master without developing the skills of self-awareness; description; critical analysis; synthesis; evaluation; open-mindedness; responsibility and motivation.
I have understood, that experiences both in personal and professional life enables us to grow in wisdom and understanding and not just in knowledge. We have all heard statements such as "we learn the most when we teach someone". I have realised that we learn when we know that it will be workable in our professional or personal life. Every individual must have experienced the surface and the deep approach to learning. I always try to internalise learning, when I know that it will be useful and is important.
Marton, Hounsell and Entwistle (1997) consider that there is a fundamental difference between adopting a deep approach and a surface approach of learning. According to them these two approaches represent the extremes of a continuum and a learner, may choose to learn differently according to the task in hand. Whatever is considered as a surface approach in the beginning of learning turns out into deeper level of approach with time and experience. We tend to relate, our new learning with the past experiences and adapt the best practices, to achieve a different end result when faced with a similar challenge. We keep polishing our skills time to time and learn to develop our own practices, effectively and ensure that we gain more from our colleagues.
I have uploaded in this page, the levels that I belong to, when confronted with a problematic situation and while preparing and assessing a leadership situation.
It is said that fools fail to learn from their experiences and are bound to hit the same troubles again in the future.The wise learn from their experiences, both good and bad, and thus are able to gain even from what other-wise, would be considered as failures.
Earlier, when organising events, I used to get tensed easily and prefered to work by myself than delegating. I have noticed in course of time, with experience and changes, I have learnt to delegate work and organise events smoothly. Schon (1983,1987) has said that professional practice depends on knowing-in-action, and I agree with him. According to Schon , reflective practice requires a deep level of open and honest critique which few of us can master without developing the skills of self-awareness; description; critical analysis; synthesis; evaluation; open-mindedness; responsibility and motivation.
I have understood, that experiences both in personal and professional life enables us to grow in wisdom and understanding and not just in knowledge. We have all heard statements such as "we learn the most when we teach someone". I have realised that we learn when we know that it will be workable in our professional or personal life. Every individual must have experienced the surface and the deep approach to learning. I always try to internalise learning, when I know that it will be useful and is important.
Marton, Hounsell and Entwistle (1997) consider that there is a fundamental difference between adopting a deep approach and a surface approach of learning. According to them these two approaches represent the extremes of a continuum and a learner, may choose to learn differently according to the task in hand. Whatever is considered as a surface approach in the beginning of learning turns out into deeper level of approach with time and experience. We tend to relate, our new learning with the past experiences and adapt the best practices, to achieve a different end result when faced with a similar challenge. We keep polishing our skills time to time and learn to develop our own practices, effectively and ensure that we gain more from our colleagues.
I have uploaded in this page, the levels that I belong to, when confronted with a problematic situation and while preparing and assessing a leadership situation.
It is said that fools fail to learn from their experiences and are bound to hit the same troubles again in the future.The wise learn from their experiences, both good and bad, and thus are able to gain even from what other-wise, would be considered as failures.