Developing Self Awareness
Module title | Developing Self Awareness |
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Module code | BEM1030DA |
Academic year | 2023/4 |
Credits | 15 |
Module staff | Mrs Claire Cahill (Convenor) |
Duration: Term | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Duration: Weeks | 7 |
Number students taking module (anticipated) | 30 |
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Module description
This module will enable you to understand the value and application of reflective practice for personal and professional development. You will gain knowledge on emotional intelligence, learning and behaviour styles, time management techniques and tools, problem solving and decision-making techniques and organisational values and ethics. You willbe encouraged to use the knowledge gained from this module and your analytical skills to reflect on your performance, working style and its impact on others and to create a personal development plan. Throughout the module, there will also be a focus on using analysis and evaluation to support your decision making.
Module aims - intentions of the module
By sharingrelevant and research-inspired content and using play and problem-based learning, this module has 4 main aims.
First, it aims to increase your self-awareness so that you can use this increased awareness toinform your personal and professional development.Your self-awareness will be increased through a focus onknowledge and application of emotional intelligence, as well as learning and behaviour styles, time management techniques and tools, problem solving and decision-making techniques and organisational values and ethics. You will put knowledge into practice through developing a personal development plan that you critically reflect on.
Second, this module aims to enable you to gain and reflect on the knowledge, skills and behaviours that form the self-awareness part of your operations or departmental apprenticeship.
Third, this module aims to will give you an appreciation and understandingof reflective practice that you can take forward into any area of your working or personal life.
Forth, by assessing this module with a presentation, it aims to help develop your presentation skills for both your end point assessment and your employability.
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)
ILO: Module-specific skills
On successfully completing the module you will be able to...
- 1. Present and apply knowledge of emotional intelligence, learning and behaviour styles, time management techniques and tools, problem solving and decision-making techniques, organisational values and ethics.
- 2. Select, apply and evaluate a reflective model to reflect on own performance, working style, emotional intelligence, and its impact on others.
ILO: Discipline-specific skills
On successfully completing the module you will be able to...
- 3. Select relevant workplace evidence related to self-awareness and contextualise it using relevant module content.
- 4. Apply critical analysis and evaluation to support decision making and use effective problem-solving techniques.
- 5. Produce a comprehensive professional development plan informed by knowledge of own learning and behavioural style, that can be updated as skills develop.
ILO: Personal and key skills
On successfully completing the module you will be able to...
- 6. Select and reflect on some time management techniques used for personal and professional practice.
- 7. Select and reflect on some time management techniques used for personal and professional practice.
Syllabus plan
2 day masterclass focusing on reflective practices, critical thinking, emotional intelligence, learning and behaviour styles, time management techniques and tools, problem solving and decision-making techniques and organisational values and ethics and PDPs.
Weekly webinars to cement and extend learning from masterclass and discuss how it can be applied to professional and personal development.
ELE content to provide background reading, tools and templates to enable apprentices to experiment and find strategies that improve their working practices as well as their understanding of the importance of self-awareness.
Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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20 | 130 | 0 |
Details of learning activities and teaching methods
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 14 | Masterclasses |
Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 5 | Webinars |
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 1 | 121 tutorial time |
Guided Independent Study | 130 | Independent Study and work based practice |
Formative assessment
Form of assessment | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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Slide deck plan peer feedback exercise | Plan for 15 min slidesdeck | 1-8 | Peer feedback and verbal feedback during webinar |
Summative assessment (% of credit)
Coursework | Written exams | Practical exams |
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100 | 0 | 0 |
Details of summative assessment
Form of assessment | % of credit | Size of the assessment (eg length / duration) | ILOs assessed | Feedback method |
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A narrated 15 minute presentation including PDP and critical reflection | 100 | 15 minute presentation with 750 PDP attached as an apprendix (equlivalent to 2250 2500 words +/- 10%) | 1-8 | Written by tutor |
Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)
Original form of assessment | Form of re-assessment | ILOs re-assessed | Timescale for re-assessment |
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Case study including reflective journal | As previous | 1,3,10,11 | Next re-assessment period |
PDP including reflective journal | As previous | 2,4-6,7-9,12 | Next re-assessment period |
Re-assessment notes
All passed components of the module will be rolled forward and will not be reassessed in the event of module failure.
Defer – as first time
Refer – capped at 50%
Indicative learning resources - Basic reading
The work developed for this module will attract its own specialist reading, most obviously texts, articles and websites that relate to the particular dimensions of the study which will be updated throughout the module. The complete reading list will be updated throughout the module andwill be found on the module’s ELE page.It will include:
Reading
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Newton PM (2015) The Learning Styles Myth is Thriving in Higher Education.â?¯Front. Psychol.â?¯6:1908. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01908
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Emotional Intelligence – Why it can matter more than IQ – Daniel Goleman
Cirillo, Francesco.â?¯The Pomodoro Techniqueâ?¯: the Life-Changing Time-Management System. Updated edition. London: Virgin Books, 2018. Print.
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McManus J. Emotions and ethical decision making at work: Organizational norms, emotional dogs, and the rational tales they tell themselves and others: JBE.â?¯J Bus Ethics. 2019:1-16.
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Alexander Haslam, S., 2014. Making good theory practical: Five lessons for an Applied Social Identity Approach to challenges of organizational, health, and clinical psychology. British Journal of Social Psychology 53, 1–20.. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12061
Web-based and electronic resources:
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CMI Management Direct (https://members.md.cmi.org.uk/)
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https://www.ed.ac.uk/reflection/reflectors-toolkit/all-tools
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https://universityofexeteruk.sharepoint.com/sites/StudyZone/SitePages/Reflective-Writing.aspx.
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https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/qsir-six-thinking-hats.pdf
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/joefolkman/2016/03/31/the-1-reason-most-personal-development-plans-fail/?sh=67b6dfc83b3c
ELE– College to provide hyperlink to appropriate pages
Videos
This video featuresDr Inma Adarves-Yorno who is a senior lecturer here at the Business School talking about mindfulness and self-awareness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6EPUQDoRaE
Dr Adarves-Yorno challenges you ask WHY WHYWHY when thinking about your aspirations. Dr Eurich suggests you ask WHAT not WHY to improve self-awareness when reflecting on things that have happened to you.
Credit value | 15 |
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Module ECTS | 7.5 |
Module pre-requisites | None |
Module co-requisites | None |
NQF level (module) | 4 |
Available as distance learning? | Yes |
Origin date | 25/07/2022 |
Last revision date | 25/07/2022 |