Write an analysis of the different factors that can affect the planning and organisation of study for yourself and students in general.
GUIDANCE
Your response should be a maximum of 500 words.
The assignment planners within your study materials will provide you with additional guidance for this question. Please refer to section 1.1.
Write an evaluation of your learning strengths and weaknesses in relation to a learning theory.
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Your response should be a maximum of 500 words.
The assignment planners within your study materials will provide you with additional guidance for this question. Please refer to section 2.1.
You must upload a copy of your Personal SWOT analysis to support your written evaluation.
You must include citations within your work where you refer to theory and provide a references list.
Write a short statement indicating practical and realistic strategies for addressing your learning weaknesses.
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Your response should be a maximum of 250 words.
Your response must link to the answer you have given for question 2.
The assignment planners within your study materials will provide you with additional guidance for this question. Please refer to section 2.2.
Write an evaluation of two recognised learning theories.
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Your response should be a maximum of 500 words.
The assignment planners within your study materials will provide you with additional guidance for this question. Please refer to section 3.1.
You must include citations within your work where you refer to theory and provide a references list.
Assignment Planner
Write a list of things that youthink could impact on the planning and organisation of study for yourself and for students in general. One example is study environment, but there are a lot more!
When you complete question 1 of the unit assignment the 'things' that you have listed are the factors that you will need to analyse.
When you analyse these factors, you need to break each one down byexplaining what each of the factors are, why these impact on the planning and organisation of study, and how you can overcome or avoid them.
You should now make a start on a Personal SWOT analysis. The main thing to remember with this particular analysis is that it must include strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats that relate tolearning, yourability to learn, andstudying in general. By focusing on learning, the content of your analysis will be valuable to you over the coming months.
You can use an MS Word (or similar) document to write your Personal SWOT analysis. This can then be updated as required throughout your studies. You will also be able to upload it for question 2 of the unit assignment.
For question 2 of the unit assignment you will need to evaluate your learning strengths and weaknesses in relation to learning theory.
Consider the outcomes from your Personal SWOT analysis. Focus only on the strengths and weaknesses you have identified that relate to how you learn. You then need to link these to learning theory. Once you have done this, you will be ready to write your evaluation.
When it comes to writing your evaluation you need to outline what your learning strengths and weaknesses are, explaining why you think these are strengths and weaknesses. Explain the learning theory that you are going to use for your evaluation; explaining the theory shows that you understand it. Explain why you think your learning strengths and weaknesses link to this theory; you must give examples to support your opinions. Then form some conclusions about how you learn, whether the theory is useful in helping you to understand how you learn, and whether it has helped you to see where you can improve in the future.
Remember, when you refer to theory you need to include citations and references. You will find guidance about how to use the Harvard referencing system later in this unit so be sure to pay particular attention to this area as it will help you to complete the assignment.
One of the questions in the unit assignment will ask you to identify strategies that will help you to overcome your learning weaknesses.
These strategies need to be practical and realistic things that you can do throughout your studies to help you to improve. By reflecting upon the outcomes from your Personal SWOT you should be able to explain what your learning weaknesses are andhow you plan to overcome them by identifying appropriate actions that you can take. For example, if one of your weaknesses is poor time management, then you need to including planning within your answer to this question.
Question 3
You are required to write two examples of each of the following using the text in the article provided (see assessor guidance section below to download the article).
• Paraphrase
• Quotation
You must ensure that the meaning of the original text is conveyed/summarised when paraphrasing. Quotation examples must be presented in the appropriate manner.
You should also remember to include citation(s) with each of your examples and a references list at the end of your work.
GUIDANCE
You do not need to rewrite the entire article; just provide two examples using each of the two techniques.
Each of your examples should be 2 to 3 sentences long.
You should also include the original text that you are using for each of your examples and format your work as follows:
PARAPHRASE EXAMPLE 1
Original text…
Your example…
You then need to change the heading so that it corresponds to each of your examples.
Refer to your study materials if you need further guidance about the use of paraphrase and quotation.
Download Assessor Guidance
ARTICLE Education encompasses our lives; it is the foundation of our society. Education helps to stimulate our minds and mould inquisitive minds into intellectuals. Higher learning takes the intellect to the next level, providing a deeper understanding of the world around us. Importance of Education in Society Education, if looked at beyond its conventional boundaries, forms the very essence of all our actions. What we do is what we know and have learned, either through instructions or through observation and assimilation. When we are not making an effort to learn, our mind is always processing new information or trying to analyse the similarities as well as the tiny nuances within the context which makes the topic stand out or seem different. If that is the case then the mind definitely holds the potential to learn more, however, it is us who stop ourselves from expanding the horizons of our knowledge with self-doubt or other social, emotional, or economic constraints. While most feel that education is a necessity, they tend to use it as a tool for reaching a specific target or personal mark, after which there is no further need to seek greater education. Nonetheless, the importance of education in society is indispensable and cohering, which is why society and knowledge cannot be ever separated into two distinct entities. Let us find out more about the role of education in society and how it affects our lives. Purpose of Education in Society Education is Self-Empowerment. Receiving a good education helps empower you, thus making you strong enough to look after yourself in any given situation. It keeps you aware of your given surrounding as well as the rules and regulations of the society you're living in. It's only through knowledge that you can be able to question authority for its negligence or discrepancies. It is only then that you can avail your rights as a citizen and seek improvement in the structural functioning of governance and economy. It's only when a citizen is aware about the policies of its government can he be able to support or protest the change. As a whole, people can bring about development only when they know where improvement is necessary for the greater good of mankind. Education helps you understand yourself better, it helps you realize your potential and qualities as a human being. It helps you to tap into latent talent, so that you may be able to sharpen your skills. Financial Stability and Dignity of Life Another importance of education is that it helps you gain sufficient academic qualification so that you are able to get suitable employment at a later stage. A decent employment would be combined with hard-earned remuneration or salary through which you can look after your personal expenses. While you earn for yourself, you gradually begin to realize the true worth of money and how hard it is to earn it. You realize the significance of saving for a rainy day and for unforeseeable contingencies. You feel empowered because there is a new sense of worth that develops within you, and you feel the need to be independent and free from any further financial support. You take pride in the fact that you are earning for yourself, and are not obligated to anyone. Growth in Personal Aspiration There also comes a phase when the amount you are earning presently will seem inadequate because your aspirations and expectations from yourself would have grown considerably. After this, you will want to change jobs so as to have a higher profile. However, here is when you need to be prepared. A promotion of this figure can occur in two given situations, which are, that either you have the necessary higher academic qualification or a college degree which allows you a safe passage, or that you have amassed enough practical experience which allows you to be a suitable candidate for the employment you seek. On the Job Efficiency This is why college education is very important after high school and must not be taken for granted. When faced with the option of choosing between a highly qualified candidate and a not so educated candidate, the employers will most probably go in for the qualified person. The reason being that, a qualified candidate will not require much investment of the employer's time and money. The organization need not teach him or her the tricks of the trade, or the various ways of functioning and performing the tasks of the workplace. On the contrary, a novice / amateur applicant would need to be taught everything from scratch, which many employers are usually not willing to do. The same applies for people who seek higher education and get advanced diplomas while working. These people are continuously improving their profile and their knowledge base so as to go higher up on the competitive ladder. Helps Plan Ahead Those who have amassed enough education, steer the path of development and progress for their country. It is these individuals who go ahead and become teachers, scientists, inventors, welfare activists, soldiers, and politicians who work together to form the very backbone of the society. Without this pool of intellect, the economic and social framework would crumple and fall, paving its way for anarchy, degradation, and violence. While this intricate balance of growth is maintained, there will be a continuous rise in progress in all quarters of life, whether that be personal growth, or development of the nation as an entity. This progress has a very important role to play for the coming generations, which will reap the benefits of our hard work, as they develop it further. At the same time, the negative impact of our actions shall have its collateral damage on the coming generation as well. Which is why we must be exceptionally prudent about the decisions we make and the actions we take in the present. Job Seeker vs. Job Provider There will come a time, when you will no longer feel the need to be working as someone's mere employee. You would want to take charge and control over your own life and income. This is when you will decide to become a self-employed individual, who would like to watch his / her own ideas take realistic form. You would prefer being the one offering job opportunities to others and aid in providing income to them. At this stage of entrepreneurship, you may use your own expertise as well as that of other trained and skilled associates. As a team, you will find your business or venture expanding and yielding good results. You may even gain the confidence and insight, which will help you diversify and spread your expertise into other business arenas, which were previously unknown to you, or you were unsure about. This ability, comes with experience and knowledge amassed over the years. An Idle Mind is The Devil's Workshop Education and studying regularly, gives people of all age groups something substantial and challenging to do. It helps them think and use their idle hours, doing something productive and worthwhile. Education need not be purely academic and may include reading for leisure or as a passion for literature, philosophy, art, politics, economics, or even scientific research. There is no limit, to all that you can teach yourself, only if you take the interest to learn and grow as an individual. However, those who treat knowledge as trash, eventually find themselves getting absorbed with thoughts of violence, and jealously against those who are better off than themselves. It is people such as these who turn towards drug addiction, unnecessary rebellion, crime, and plain inactivity. Such people lack the self-esteem that a good education often provides to its followers. Education plays its continuous role in all spheres of life. The reason being, that if we are aware of the drawbacks of a decision and we know about the possible contingencies and the collateral damage, our consequent actions would be wiser, which would help us to keep danger at bay at all times. Mohan, R. (2012), “The Importance of Education in Society”, http://merseamusic.blogspot.co.uk