Personal Development
Reflection in personal development
Tags: opinion, professional learning, short articles One of the things I believe is most appealing about this book is its relevance across a range of subjects and stages of schooling – it is up to you as the pedagogue to adopt or adapt according to the needs of your students and broader teaching and learning environment. The book invites educators to take pedagogical risks in creating an engaging and empowering classroom for both you as the teacher and your students. I discovered this book via Dave Burgess, an #AussieEd Twitter chat and a related…
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Why deliver this qualification This Course focuses on developing generic employability skills needed for success in the workplace through a variety of practical experiences in the financial services area. There is considerable flexibility of topics and contexts to facilitate personalisation and choice for learners and centres and to allow new and stimulating contexts for learning to be built into the Course. It is anticipated that the Course will build on existing partnerships between schools, colleges of further education, employers and other training…
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Personal Development, Health and Physical Education From the NSW K-6 Personal Development, Health and Physical Education Syllabus: Rationale: In our rapidly changing society there is increasing community awareness of the importance of healthy lifestyles. The resultant good health is characterised by improved quality of life, less sickness and disability, happier personal, family and social experiences and the opportunity to make choices in work and recreation. Individuals lead a healthy lifestyle when they live in a way that allows them the greatest…
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Staring at my shoes – The Power of Personal Development Groups, I am an expert on Doctor Martens shoes, I should be – I spent enough time looking down at them in my first Personal Development group back in 2. Like most students (I Guess), it took me some time to understand what the purpose of a process group was, and more to the point what part I played in it. The first few weeks were quite uncomfortable, I remember asking the tutor what the purpose of this was, only to get the reply “whatever you want it to be”, it felt like I was in a game where…
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What s so useful about charisma? Charisma is closely related to assertiveness, which we all need, if only for defensive reasons. Charisma is not just about showing off. Charisma enables us to influence (and inspire) others, and also to influence our external environment, which from time to time we all need to do - even the introverts among us. Time management, for example, crucially depends on managing our environment and the expectations of others. If you want to build a business, lead a team, be a teacher or a trainer or a speaker, or maybe enter…
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What is Personal Development Planning (PDP)? The four key ingredients for students personal development planning in HE are: planning (individual students setting goals for learning and development); experiences (that are selected to achieve goals); recording (of the thoughts, ideas and experiences that make up learning); reflecting (review and evaluation of the process and products of learning, and revision of goals). In their guidelines for Personal Development Planning, the QAA define PDP as: A structured and supported process undertaken by…
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Director of Programming and Innovation Editor s Note: Today s blogger is Dr Joseph Durlak, lead author of a recent study, The Impact of Enhancing Students Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions,published in the January-February 2011 issue of Child Development. Joe Durlak At a time when pressures on educators to improve students academic achievement seem to have reached a boiling point, one program category, social and emotional learning, has produced academic gains that equal the results of many…
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