PrintIPDS Guide - Reflection
Overall reflection
In order to encourage you to reflect on your learning over the training period you are asked to write a further, reflective commentary which covers the whole development process that you have experienced. This reflection should be undertaken at the final level when you have completed all other tasks. A few examples of the types of issues you may wish to reflect upon are given below:
- How did the theory you were introduced to in your studies influence you in practice?
- How have you managed to relate your learning experiences during home study or at college to the workplace and vice versa?
- What factors have influenced, positively and negatively, your learning and development throughout this period?
- How has your perception of the role and responsibilities of a CIPFA professional altered during this period?
- What issues you experienced which had an ethical dimension, how you responded to them, and what have you learnt?
- Have you managed to become a more effective learner? If you have, how was this achieved?
- How might you approach things differently in the future?
Your overall reflection will be a longer piece than the previous reflections - about 1000 words.
Future learning goals
Future learning goals should be drawn from your expectations of what you will be doing throughout your future career, and how you need to develop to adequately address these expectations. Your future learning goals should be drawn directly from your reflective commentaries, particularly your overall reflective commentary. They should not be merely a description of tasks you expect to undertake in the future, but an analysis of what you need to learn, or how you wish to develop in order to succeed in your career as a whole.
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