I would like to share a few concepts and ideas about "Professional Development", which is frequently discussed among the current society. Professional development is a essential factor in any students life, this point is further discussed below.
To start off with, Professional
development is referred to as the skills, knowledge and requirements needed for
both personal development and career goals. There are of course, different
slants that help advance professional development which include practice,
study, supervision, coaching consultation and technical assistance. Professional
development also takes place in a university degree program, this basically
includes the skills and knowledge disseminated within the university degree
program that helps to advance a individuals personal development and it
certainly does help a individual identify and develop his/her career goals
effectively and efficiently. This is also a stage which helps an individual evaluate
his or her personal self, a concentrated stage with combined skills that help
appraise one’s skills or abilities that would further help in the future.
An individual or in
this case, a student may play a part in professional development to improve
interests in order to learn throughout not only in university but for a
lifespan. Professional development also helps a student enhance his/her career goals.
Progressing with a proper and well recognized career is one of the main
objectives any university student would have and in order to achieve and passage
along with a good career, one must develop immensely with the help of
professional development. This also includes adapting to the changes in the
current society or even applying an persons skills to help embrace with the
environment. Also in order to reach a high goal, a student must follow professional
development to identify and improve in areas needed.
As for my opinion, professional development certainly does play a major role in
a student’s life. Professional development helps an individual develop in
certain open-ended areas that is usually difficult to correct. Reaching a goal
or obtaining a high class career is not easy or pleasing as it looks, it sure
is one hard task, although professional development does help clear doubts and
barriers in specific areas or situations. There are of course, many ways in
practicing professional development and each way would defiantly have an impact
on a student’s life in one way or another. Practice, study, supervision, a
personal SWOT, managing time and the other mentioned methods of professional
development is of great help when it comes to focusing and concentrating on
development and further achievements. Professional development could be handled
in different ways depending on an
individual and his/her beliefs and if practiced wisely, professional development
will improve and help a individual reach his/her goal with less mistakes and
more success.
There are also a variety of techniques that help in
professional development. A few examples of such techniques or methods are as
follows:
o The
use of a personal SWOT
o Time
management
o Individual
learning plan
o And
other methods such as practice, study,
supervision, coaching consultation and technical assistance
The above methods
help increase professional development in an effective and efficient manner.
Going in detail,
a SWOT analysis is a method in which a student analyses himself/herself in a
way were strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are all brought out
with the help of investigation. One’s personal SWOT analysis could tell a lot
about a person including ways and areas in which improvements could be made.
Every individual has his/her weaknesses and mistakes are made, that’s only
human but failures could be corrected by a SWOT analysis, similarly threats
could be avoided using strengths and opportunities could be used to reach one
step higher. Theoretically Strengths and weaknesses are internal which means it
could be controlled by ones inner self, meanwhile, opportunities and threats
are considered as external factors which are usually controlled by the external
environment although all factors or a SWOT analysis reflect an individual
personally. A technique like a personal SWOT could be used often in order to
boost up his/her goals and correct what is necessary. Not everything stays the
same within an individual internally or even with the external environment and
there for SWOT analysis should be practiced habitually to increase
effectiveness of changes that are made and that are about to be made.
Furthermore organization
of time could help profoundly in professional development. Working according to
the allocated time in other words, being organized is a great advantage since
more work will be done efficiently in such manner. Being unorganized, working
out of time will affect every step and move in the future and will also affect
an individual’s professional development. In order to increase effectiveness
and improve personal development, proper time should be allotted for each
mission that has to be completed. Setting goals isn’t enough if it isn’t
achieved on time or according to the agreed time. Plans should be set and times
should be managed to generate an effective outcome.
An individual learning plan also could help in many and
more ways. Learning happens every day, regardless the age or gender of an
individual, and therefore a learning plan could help organize learning so that
the absorption of knowledge could happen effectively with no further negative
effects.
Moreover methods such as such as practice, study, supervision, coaching consultation and technical
assistance are faultlessly assured methods of professional development that
also brush and improve an individual personal development and career
objectives.
With experience
and attempt of several of the above techniques, it is clearly visible that such
methods help in gaining confidence and it further helps in finding the right
purpose, the right career and the right decisions throughout. Professional
development is useful and has become essential in the lives of nearly every
student and such techniques could be used to improve and develop a student in
many ways.
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