Reflective Practice

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Cambridge TECHNICALS OCR LEVEL 3 CAMBRIDGE TECHNICAL CERTIFICATE/DIPLOMA IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE D/600/8958 LEVEL 3 UNIT 8 GUIDED LEARNING HOURS: 120 UNIT CREDIT VALUE: 20 PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE D/600/8958 LEVEL 3 UNIT 8 AIM OF THE UNIT Reflective practice is used widely within the health and social care sector to ensure standards of service and care are monitored and where necessary improved. This unit will enable learners to develop skills necessary to plan, monitor and reflect on their personal and professional development and learners will compile a professional development portfolio (PDP) which will contain evidence…show more content…
Distinction To achieve a distinction the evidence must show that, in addition to the pass and merit criteria, the learner is able to: The learner will: 1 Understand the learning process The learner can: P1 Explain key influences on personal learning processes of individuals M1 explain the importance of improving skills for learning to support learning processes 2 Be able to plan for and P2 Assess own knowledge, monitor own professional skills, practice, values, development beliefs and career aspirations at start of programme P3 Produce an action plan for self-development and the achievement of own personal goals 3 Be able to reflect on own development over time D1 evaluate changes P4 Produce evidence of own M2 analyse the importance made to action of meeting action plan progress against action plan in response to targets in supporting own plan over the duration of ongoing reflection of progression the programme development, targets and goals P5 Reflect on own personal and professional development M3 explain how knowledge D2 analyse own gained within the development and learning environment progression over time has influenced own professional development 4 Know service provision in the health or social care…show more content…
This would be best covered within the second half of the course of study as they should have become familiar with using the action plan and reflecting on own progress. M2 requires learners to analyse the importance of attaining targets they have set themselves within their action plan. Learners should discuss how working towards the targets identified within their action plan has impacted positively on their performance/ development, or perhaps identify where the targets were unachievable and required changing to ensure progression. D1 requires learners to evaluate the changes made in response to ongoing reflection, giving thought to how the targets and goals have had a positive impact on personal development and considering reasons why, when changes have not impacted positively; therefore this information could follow on from learners’ evidence when completing M2. This assignment should be added to the learners PDP’s. P5 and M3 – require learners to reflect on and explain how the knowledge gained within the classroom has influenced their professional development within placement. Learners should use examples where possible to link their theoretical understanding to practical experience. This M3 criterion could be completed in the middle of the learner’s course of study and then towards the end of the course as this would lead into learners covering D2 which requires learners to
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