DA5075 - Work Based Learning Professional Development 2

You will learn through tutor facilitated workshops, skills practice, tutor guidance and feedback and independent directed and self-directed learning. Importantly, you will also learn at work, through reflecting on your experiences and applying your knowledge from your individual WBL plan to your practice in the workplace. The workshops will introduce you to theories and concepts and allow you to discuss with the tutors and your peers how these relate to your own work based experiences and practice. You are encouraged to customise your individual WBL plan so that it is directly relevant to what you need to learn. The workplace provides a rich learning environment if you know how to plan, reflect and renew your own knowledge and skills through formal and informal modes of learning practice. Importantly you will be required to review your learning with your manager/mentor and your individual academic coach, and provide evidence of the transfer of your learning into updating the knowledge, skills, behaviours and attitudes that underpin the development of your professional practice. Therefore, it is the evidence of what you have learned from the planned experience, rather than the experience itself which will demonstrate your competence in this module.

Your learning is supported by a Teaching and Learning Plan, offering guidance on reading to prepare for workshops and help with the completion of the individual WBL Plan and module assessment. Within this plan there are also suggested learning activities, which guide you in your independent learning. These activities allow you to reflect and evaluate your knowledge and skills and in this area.

You will be building a portfolio of evidence that illustrates your development as a manager throughout the first year of the programme. This portfolio will enable you to demonstrate how you have applied your learning from across all first stage modules into your workplace practice, and will normally include evidence from this module’s WBL plan and assessment.

As part of this or another first stage module, you will be introduced to a range of academic skills which will support your learning whilst in Higher Education and provide the foundations on which you will build these skills over the next three years.

The Teaching and Learning plan will provide a number of prompts and guidance to support you academically. Support will also include opportunities to gain feedback from workshop tutors, guidance tutors, peers and your individual academic coach.

Your module is also supported by an e-learning portal, which houses all the module learning materials, workshop resources, interactive activities, assessment details and various other support facilities which are provided by the University.

In addition, in order to assist you in developing knowledge, you will have access to the University’s library facilities, including extensive electronic resources, eBooks and electronic academic journal articles.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
You will be required to demonstrate:

Knowledge & Understanding:
1) Your knowledge of personal work based learning planning approaches to developing an individual learning contract (ML01)
2) Your enhanced sector and or organisational specific knowledge and practice (ML02)

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:

3) Your ability to engage in continuing professional development (CPD) planning as a means of proactively enhancing your work based knowledge and practice (ML03)

4) Your understanding of qualities and transferable skills necessary for enhancing your sector and or organisational knowledge and practice.(ML04)


Personal Values Attributes
5) Your ability to identify and understand the cultural and ethical contexts in which you develop your professional practice. (ML05)

Mapping to CMDA Outcomes

Knowledge & Understanding:
6.Understand Communication
6.1 Different forms of communication (written, verbal non-verbal, digital) and how to apply them.
6.1.1 Evaluate different types of communication and the application of these analyse their strengths and weaknesses in different contexts
6.3.1 Analyse own interpersonal skills and take responsibility to further develop of these
6.4.1 Show effective and appropriate use of all forms of communication.

10.1 How to be self–aware and recognise different learning styles.
10.1.1 Evaluate theories of learning styles and apply to self and others

10.3 Reflect on own performance, identifying and acting on learning and development needs.
10.3.1 Analyse own performance, identifying learning and development needs
10.3.2 Devise and implement strategies to address learning and development needs

11.1 How to manage time, set goals, prioritise activities and undertake forward planning in a business environment with a focus on outcomes.
11.1.1 Assess a broad range of techniques for managing time
11.1.2 Review own time management skills and create and implement strategies to improve
11.1.3 Evaluate goal setting theories and models
11.1.4 Set achievable goals/ objectives for self and monitor
progress towards these

Skills – be able to:
11.2.2 Effectively manage own workload to achieve objectives
11.2.3 Align personal development objectives to the organisational strategy
11.2.4 Demonstrate on-going commitment to personal development.

You will be provided with formative feedback on your proposed individual WBL CPD plan from your academic coach.

Your summative assessment will take the form of the following:

1) WBL Contract (10%)
Individual WBL CPD plan outlining the objectives, methods or activities, resources and support, timeline, learning transfer, learning outcomes and/or criteria for measuring achievement,
(1000 words maximum)

(Evidencing ML01, ML03)


2) WBL Digital Personal
Learning Vlog
(90%)

A personal video learning log summarizing your key personal learning and evidence of your enhanced knowledge and skills emerging from implementation of your WBL plan. (2,000 words maximum)

(Evidencing module learning outcomes ML02, ML04,ML05)

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This is the second in a series of two core modules that run throughout the first two levels of the programme to support you in developing and enhancing your sector and or organisation specific knowledge and professional practice. This module develops your further understanding of the work based learning (WBL) contract approach that will enable you to design and implement a WBL plan customised to achieve your enhanced individual, sector / organisational specific learning needs. This module also provides a vehicle for you to develop your sector/ organisational specific knowledge which will help you make sense of your learning from across modules in stage two of the programme and apply this learning to enhancing your professional practice in the workplace. Furthermore, it will provide you with the opportunity to explore an area of specific sector and or organisational knowledge and or practice which you may wish to develop at the next stage as part of your work based project. Through engaging in the workshop sessions and activities and implementing your WBL plan you will develop your self-management, planning and evaluation skills. The module will also strengthen your capacity as an independent and self-directed, work-based learner.