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Programme - Professional Development and Practice

Over the last 18 months, your academic programme, part-time employment or a placement, and other professional development opportunities have been key to helping you expand your knowledge, skills and behaviours and your professional development over this time, needs to be evidenced.

Critical learning events or incidents can be described as "learning situations which learners have experienced as effective, exceptional, or personally meaningful, (they) may lead to educationally significant learning and personal growth." Soini H. (2012) Please write a detailed account of the critical learning events and experiences you have navigated through and learned from.

If you have had part-time employment, you should give an overview of your experience at BPP and your critical learning events can be a mixture of part-time employment experience or a placement and academic experience. If you did not undertake part-time work, your assessment should be based on your 18 months of your academic experience and your critical learning events should come from this.

Using your learning journal as the primary resource to draw from, you should select a minimum of 3 and maximum of 6 learning critical learning events and explain how these have developed you professionally and made you more employable -increased your employability.

You should utilise one of the following reflective models to structure your writing: Kolb's Reflective Cycle (1984) Gibb's Reflective Cycle (1998)

To exemplify your employability, you should source a job description that you would like to apply for as a BPP graduate and map your skills using your BPP Career Ready Skills Analysis form to those required from the role. Within each of these experiences you are expected to articulate specific knowledge, skills and behaviours that you have brought together effectively to enhance your performance as a professional practitioner. You should also include and reference relevant theories that you have been exposed to during your time at BPP.

Where you identify areas for development, you should ensure that these appear as goals in your IPDP and should be discussed in the content of your report to clearly link your development with your intent to change. Your report should clearly detail what you would do differently because of your new-found understanding and learning.

The evidence for your professional development should be attached to your Professional Development Report as appendices. Evidence should consist of your learning journal, your individual professional development plan, your chosen graduate job description, a personal SWOT analysis, your updated CV, details of networking events and other training you might have been involved with and any other additional evidence that reflects your increased employability.

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Attachment:- Professional Development Portfolio.rar