Promote Professional Development

Unit summary

The purpose of this unit is to assess the learner’s knowledge, understanding and skills required to promote the professional duty to maintain the currency of knowledge and skills and the need to continually reflect on and improve practice.

Learning outcomes

1 Understand principles of professional development

2 Be able to prioritise goals and targets for own professional development

3 Be able to prepare a professional development plan

4 Be able to improve performance through reflective practice

1.1 Explain the importance of continually improving knowledge and practice

1.2 Analyse potential barriers to professional development

1.3 Compare the use of different sources and systems of support for professional development

1.4 Explain factors to consider when selecting opportunities and activities for keeping knowledge and practice up to date

2.1 Evaluate own knowledge and performance against standards and benchmarks

2.2 Prioritise development goals and targets to meet expected standards

3.1 Select learning opportunities to meet development objectives and reflect personal learning style

3.2 Produce a plan for own professional development, using an appropriate source of support

3.3 Establish a process to evaluate the effectiveness of the plan

4.1 Compare models of reflective practice

4.2 Explain the importance of reflective practice to improve performance

4.3 Use reflective practice and feedback from others to improve performance

4.4 Evaluate how practice has been improved through:

- reflection on best practice

- reflection on failures and mistakes