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This portfolio will provide us with the knowledge of my journey throughout the duration of this course foundation for learning success. The purpose of this portfolio is to reflect my experiences as a self directed learner and getting to know more about myself . As a self directed learner I was able to be self empowered which influence me to control my learning and develop critical thinking skills.
This course has taught me how to become a reflective/ reflexive practitioner and how to facilitate my growth in becoming a reflective learner and how to assess myself to see if there is any need for improvement, However in doing this portfolio it has encourage me how important it is to reflect on the growth and  development and also collaborating in a group setting in gaining knowledge and ideas  in problem solving and going forward.

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Benefits Accrued from Portfolio preparations

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Benefits Accrued from Portfolio preparations

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•Helps me in building my learners’ personal and academic identities and how to reflect on their capabilities and progress.

•Helps in facilitating the integration of learning in a timely manner.

•I gain the knowledge of being focus in developing  self assessment abilities  and judging the quality of work using the same criteria as experts.

•Helps  me in planning my own pathways as a result of understanding what I know and able to do  and what I still need to learn.

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Prepare portfolio that shows your growth and development as a learner in this course Foundation for Learning Success

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Prepare portfolio that shows your growth and development as a learner in this course Foundation for Learning Success

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Unit 1: Readiness for Self-Empowered Practice
Course Goal 1 and 2
Artifacts

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Unit 2: Reflective-Reflexive Practice for Exploring the             Meaning-Making Landscape for Learning Success

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Unit 2: Reflective-Reflexive Practice for Exploring the             Meaning-Making Landscape for Learning Success

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Course Goal 3 and 4

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 Unit 3: Reflective-Reflexive Practice for Life-Long Learning

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 Unit 3: Reflective-Reflexive Practice for Life-Long Learning

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Course Goal 5 and 6

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Unit 4: Learning as a Team Player: Reconstructing Group Learning

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Unit 4: Learning as a Team Player: Reconstructing Group Learning

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Course Goal 7 and 8

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Following will be Artifacts that supports course goals: 

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Following will be Artifacts that supports course goals: 

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Below are Artifacts that supports my personal Course Goals

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Below are Artifacts that supports my personal Course Goals

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Necessary changes to be made to previous Self Profile

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Necessary changes to be made to previous Self Profile

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The changes I've made to my previous self profile is building self understanding and looking inwards to examine my modes of operating to learn more.
I have acquired the knowledge and skills of being a reflective/ reflexive practitioner through scrutinizing my meaning making practices using what I have learnt. I will make an additional characteristic to my portfolio. I am a very outspoken individual who strongly believe in my development as a reflective / reflexive learner.

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Evidence to Support Changes made to Self Profile

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Evidence to Support Changes made to Self Profile

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Select a minimum of 15 Artifacts from the course page

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Select a minimum of 15 Artifacts from the course page

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Below are artifacts from unit1 - unit 4

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Unit 1: Readiness for Self-Empowered Practice

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Unit 1: Readiness for Self-Empowered Practice

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Unit 1 - Preparing the Self-Empowered Practitioner.doc

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Unit 2: Reflective-Reflexive Practice for Exploring the Meaning-Making  Landscape for Learning Success

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Unit 2: Reflective-Reflexive Practice for Exploring the Meaning-Making  Landscape for Learning Success

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Unit 3 - Reflective-Reflexive Practice: Foundation for Life-Long Learning 

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Unit 3 - Reflective-Reflexive Practice: Foundation for Life-Long Learning 

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Unit 4: Learning as a Team Player: Reconstructing Group Learning

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Unit 4: Learning as a Team Player: Reconstructing Group Learning

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Unit 4: Learning as a Team Player: Reconstructing Group Learning Continued

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Unit 4: Learning as a Team Player: Reconstructing Group Learning Continued

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The Flying Learners Assignment 2 submit.pptx

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Unit 4: Learning as a Team Player: Reconstructing Group Learning Continued

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Unit 4: Learning as a Team Player: Reconstructing Group Learning Continued

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Select one journal which in your opinion needs improvement to become a quality reflective journal. Rewrite this journal showing improvements by use of feedback received from your peers and e tutor.

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Select one journal which in your opinion needs improvement to become a quality reflective journal. Rewrite this journal showing improvements by use of feedback received from your peers and e tutor.

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Reflective Journal #1 was selected for Improvement.

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Reflective Journal #1 was selected for Improvement.

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My Reflective Journal 1

by Jordana Watson - Sunday, 4 February 2018, 8:27 PM

In writing this journal I want to reflect on the aspects of my life and where I want to be in the next five years from now. I want to express the importance of what I have learnt from the text (Bolton 2010) about reflexivity and values and how it  has help me in understanding clearly.

After Looking back on where I was in the last five years of my life I realize that I can do better by making a plan.

Firstly I will have to analyze the major problems that have led me in the wrong path and develop a conclusion has to how I will avoid myself from previous situations that had lure me to the wrong path.

Secondly I want to be a better person in my professional development in having the skills that will be required to exercise in the working environment and in my own personal life. In the next five years I see my self in completing my bachelors degree in Management Studies and gaining meaningful employment in the area of my studies so I can utilize my reflective practices and values to my fellow co workers.

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Re: My Reflective Journal 1by Esmin Spence - Sunday, 4 February 2018, 11:51 PM Jordana, thanks for sharing and telling your story.Re: Firstly I will have to analyze the major problems that have led me in the wrong path and develop a conclusion has to how I will avoid myself from previous situations that had lure me to the wrong path. (Your words). We appreciate your commitment to self-explore and to change behaviours that are disempowering to more empowering behaviours.Indeed, Reflective Practice is  an evolving framework, method and tools for self-improvement. Essentially Reflective Practice is a method of assessing our own thoughts and actions, for the purpose of personal learning and development.Jordana, is Reflective Practice a natural and instinctive activity alone or we can learn to structure our actions for the good results?Kindly support your recommendation from readings in the course related-activities, for example, Bolton (2010).We await your response to the points that I have raised above.EseTutor - Group 13ReferenceBolton, G. (2010). Reflective practice: Writing and professional development (3rd ed.). London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Permalink | Show parent | Reply

Re: My Reflective Journal 1by Esmin Spence - Sunday, 4 February 2018, 11:53 PM Jordana, thanks for sharing and telling your story.Just a follow up post. Which model or framework will you include in your reflective-reflexive practice going forward and why? Choosing a model or a combination to structure your reflection very early in the course will lay a strong foundation going forward. Click on>>>Read Me - From your eTutor - Models (or Frameworks) of Reflection>>>> to see a list of models or frameworks (not an exhaustive list), but for Gibb's model of reflection (for example) the reflective questions are:Description: What happened?
Feelings: What was I thinking and feeling?
Evaluation: What was good and bad about the experience?
Analysis: What sense can I make of the situation?
Conclusion: What else could I have done differently?
If it arose again what would I do?From the above discussion, what impacts you the most? How will you reflect going forward? Kindly support your recommendation from readings in the course related-activities, for example, Bolton (2010).We await your response to the points that I have raised above.EseTutor - Group 13ReferenceBolton, G. (2010). Reflective practice: Writing and professional development (3rd ed.). London: SAGE Publications Ltd. Permalink | Show parent |

ReplyRe: My Reflective Journal 1by Jordana Watson - Sunday, 15 April 2018, 11:32 PM Hi  Mrs Spence What impacts me the most is the new thinking skills that I have developed after reading the Dewey's Reflective Thinking Model which suggest that to think reflective you have to be persistent and have a careful consideration of knowledge and I have applied all these skills in moving forward.

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Reflecting on this journal. When I had started this course I was very basic as I thought this course was not relevant, however as I reflect on Journal #1 it has engaged me in a continuous learning and help me in paying critical attention to practical values which has led a major impact in my everyday life. Throughout this course I have made changes to my learner profile which allows me to a greater development in becoming a reflective/ reflexive practitioner. I have recognize that there are changes in my learner profile that needs to be address in becoming a more reflective learner eg The fear of being criticize. So I can now say am a better learner and where ever I am having difficulties I will do my very best in solving whatever the problem is.

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In conclusion , this reflective journal has helped me widen my knowledge of learning in the form of thinking and understanding my learning journey and also the improvement in my professionalism in better writing skills. This will make me a better leader in my ac academic life and will play a huge role in my career development.

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Bolton. G 2010. Reflective Practice Writing and Reflective Development
(Third Edition). London Publications Sage.

Dewey, J. (1933) How We Think. New York: Heath & Co.

Dewey, J. (1934). Art as experience. NY: Pedigree.

Business Communication for Success. (2015, November 25). Retrieved March 24, 2018, from http://open.lib.umn.edu/businesscommunication/chapter/19-3-group-problem-solving/