In Teaching for Quality Learning at University, John Biggs and Catherine Tang note that employer feedback regularly reveals dissatisfaction with graduates’ abilities both to self-assess accurately, and to give and receive effective peer feedback. Yet these adaptive and developmental skills are becoming increasingly crucial for graduates struggling to pursue personally and professionally rewarding life course development.
This module gives you the opportunity to develop your self-assessment and peer feedback skills whilst undertaking a significant programme of self-chosen and self-directed professional development. You may choose to focus on professional development relating to your musicianship; your business aspirations; your personal development; or your efforts to develop the skills to undertake a successful Professional Project.
The module will take you through the stages of identifying professional development needs; setting yourself effective output and outcome goals; developing an informed plan; putting the plan into action; reviewing progress and adapting plans and actions to improve them; and undertaking a final impact analysis to judge how effective your development has been.
Professional development needs analysis; goal setting (outputs and outcomes); creating an informed development plan
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Evidence based self-assessment; evaluating personal performance
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Identification and development of professional attributes
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Giving, receiving and using effective peer feedback, in person and on-line
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Working in an effective peer learning group / Action Learning Set
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Improving writing and self-directed learning and development
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Listening skills; influencing; communication and collaboration
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Negotiation styles and skills
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Understanding core concepts
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Motivation; time management; leadership; managing projects, events and teams
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Evaluating developmental activity; impact analysis
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The module is taught week by week in an interactive and participative workshop style. Sessions will consist of a mixture of tutor and student-led input; experiential learning activities; and personal / group reflection.
E-learning materials will also be made available on the BIMM Dublin VLE. Students will be expected to read independently.
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| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |