Assessment brief:

Write a 1,500 word reflective account on your role both as a student in higher education (HE), future healthcare practitioner. Basically – you need to pick a skill applicable to students in HE. Presentation skills, public speaking, academic writing, communication etc, and reflect on an experience. Use the Gibbs reflective cycle which has an action plan, and as an appendix attach a SMART action plan table.

Your writing must capture your initial reflections on your role as student in higher education;
Your role as a future healthcare practitioner
A SMART action plan to address an identified developmental need (weakness) / to be addressed over the first year of your program.

The Gibbs reflective account allows you to provide evidence of your learning and your achievement of the learning outcomes. It also enables the assessment process to be a record of your learning journey and not just a final product.

Referencing – You are expected to support your work with relevant literature using the Harvard system of referencing.
These are the outcomes that you must demonstrate clearly in your writing. Remember that all modules have the learning outcomes in the module study guides. Your work is always judged upon the outcomes so these are the most important considerations when writing your essays

1. Be able to describe and evaluate their role as a student in higher education and a future healthcare practitioner.
2. Reflect on, and evaluate, own learning strengths, styles and needs as an adult learner in higher education.
3. Develop action plans to address a developmental need to be undertaken over the first year of their program and in year two