Learning Goals Reflection For Knowledge And Skills

Develop critical reading and thinking skills

Discuss about the Learning Goals Reflection for Knowledge and Skills.

The academic goals of an individual are achieved through the use of a learning plan which provides guidelines on the functions of each day. A reflection of what one wants to achieve makes it possible to identify and attain goals in school. This study focuses on developing my learning experience by achieving the set learning goals (Komarraju & Nadler, 2013). My learning goals include; developing my academic writing skills, develop time management skills, learn how to reference and develop critical reading and thinking skills. My learning barriers to the achievement of set goals are identified to ensure that I develop strategies and resources to overcome the barriers. The set learning goals make it possible for me to attain the required skills and concept taught in school for personal development.

Critical thinking makes it possible for an individual to acquire required knowledge and skills for problem-solving (Street, 2014). My goal of developing critical reading and thinking skills will improve my skills of successfully submitting the school assignments as required by the instructor. The barriers to achieving my goal include an unwillingness to read, copying past study and being depends only on notes. These barriers will be handled by strategies such as thinking outside the box and reading more material to acquire required critical knowledge. Critical thinking and reading skills make it possible for a student to submit a standardized assignment (Fairclough, 2014). A student can improve critical knowledge and skills through a continuous research on different topics in the course. The perception about studies requires being improved to ensure that one positive action towards the achievement of set goals. Discussions with other students will improve my critical thinking and reading skills due to the additional information acquired from the group discussions. Critical thinking involves evaluating, assessment and interpretation of information by an individual (Kong, Qin, Zhou, Mou, & Gao, 2014). This is where one is supposed to have required skills and knowledge to differently integrate information to ensure that there is an improvement of the critical thinking process. Critical thinking and reading are vital in problem-solving through to quality judgment information acquired from different learning materials (Weinberg & Gould, 2014). The performance of an individual is improved through quality submission of assignments by developing required critical reading and thinking skills.

Time management is important in ensuring that I complete my assignment at the stated time by the tutor. This requires one to prioritize academic activities compared to the social activities in ensuring that there is a continuous improvement in school performance. It is essential for a student to have experience of time management to ensure that there is a proper functioning of the individual (Mukhtar, Ramzan, & Kaneez, 2016). The students are required to reduce the time used in social media, which have been made widely accessible to the young people. I will use the strategy of prioritizing strategy to social media in ensuring that my performance improves in school. The internet will be used to gather required information from books, articles and YouTube videos which relate to class courses (Nickerson & Zodhiates, 2013). Time management will make it possible for me to have a brighter future due to the improvement of academic performance. An increase in time of study makes it possible for an individual to research on assignment for quality academic work properly. In coming up with a proper study timetable, a student is supposed to have an insight on the strategies, resources, and barriers to time management. This will improve the need of a student to get the study materials such as lecture slides, books, and article journal to improve the study outcome of the courses (O’Donnell, Hmelo-Silver, & Erkens, 2013). I will improve my time management skills in studies by coming up with a realistic and flexible schedule that will make learning effective to achieve higher grades in the class. 

Develop my time management skills

Academic writing skills make it possible for an individual to communicate to the teacher and other students effectively. This is where the content in assignment and quizzes are of high quality to clarify ideas to the targeted individuals (Bailey, 2014). My barriers to developing academic writing skills are that I do not know how to write academically and do not have enough English knowledge. To effectively deal with the barrier I will study academic writing from different sources and gather enough information about English. In coming up with required academic writing skills, one is supposed to identify targeted audience to come up with the required points for the assignments (Robson & McCartan, 2016). I will use books and other learning sources to ensure that there is a supportive audience about the research. After writing one is required to proofread to ensure that the paper is credible with no grammar and spelling errors. Proper punctuation when coming up with an academic paper makes it of high quality to achieve higher grades. I will continually read the book, article journal, and websites that teach English to improve my language for a smooth academic writing in accordance with the course. The paper should have proper sections that will communicate the required information to the targeted audience (Biggam, 2015). I will make sure that I read a lot to ensure that I come up with an assignment that is of high quality for the achievement of the goal of developing academic writing.   

Referencing is essential in reducing cases of plagiarism in assignment through the development of unique work. In handling the barriers of referencing, I will use tutorial referencing guides and make an assignment to know referencing practically. Plagiarism is cheating, according to the university rules requiring an individual to have the required skills of referencing to give credit to the author of books, websites, journal articles and websites used in the research (Foltynek & Glendinning, 2015). The required knowledge in referencing makes the assignments and quizzes to meet the required standard of learning. I will use the guides to have the required referencing knowledge of reference content written in a particular research. Referencing the source of the information is important in research as it appears of high quality to the targeted audience (Canagarajah, 2013). The university assignment requires one to use another individual ideas and words in completing the assignment requiring one to reference for a smooth flow of the learning process. I will follow the set referencing standards to make it possible to achieve high grades from researches and assignments in the school. There are different styles of referencing which include; Chicago, MLA, APA, Harvard, Oxford, and Vancouver (Bell, 2014). I will use the online guides to acquire the required knowledge and skills to use the different referencing styles to complete assignments. Learning the diverse referencing styles will improve my overall school performance through submission of quality and unique work to the lecturers for higher grades from standard assignments. 

Conclusion

From the reflection, it is clear that an individual is supposed to set learning goals to improve the grades acquired in school. My learning goals are developing critical thinking and reading skills, develop time management skills, develop academic writing skills and learn how to reference. These goals are valid in improving my academic performance in the university through submission of standardized assignments.

The learning goals will positively impact my future by being successful in the university. The skills acquired in a university such as time management and critical thinking will be used in my career. This is where I can come up with a realistic and reliable plan when working to achieve the career goals in the future. Critical thinking will improve my ability to deal with other staff from different ethnic background. The skills will make me have the ability to solve problems in an organization to become a leader in future.

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