All the Best

I want to wish everyone who is doing Module 3 all the best. I hope everyone get the grades that they really want and deserve. I wish everyone the great success in their future. Stay happy, healthy and successful.     

Journey

Initially when I first started this course I was nervous but happy. When I started to do the modules I was dishearten, discouraged and disappointed because I didn’t understand what this course was about. I even thought that the teachers were barking mad and didn’t make much sense because they would gave an advisor or a tip and I will try to do the work according to how I interpret their advice. Then when I get my work back with all these suggestions I was confuse. When I even meet with my SIG buddy, we would made comments about the course and teachers about how confusing this is. I even thought at some point that my advisor was crazy and didn’t make sense.

Now that I am also to the end of the course and about to complete it, I realised that it was me who was barking mad, crazy and confused. I now really appreciate this process and all the advice I got from the teachers especially Adesola and I am so grateful for all her help and support. This course I think not just help you gain a qualification but it gives you tools that you can use for life in any profession. It prepares you more for life (not just professional or academic life) than the normal degree and I remember Alan saying this to me right at the start of the course. This course allows growth and reflection.

Before I did this course I did a lot of reflection and analysing because of my Performing and sporting background. These disciplines allows it participants to reflect and analyse self performance so that they can be the best that be, however, the reflection only relates in these fields. What this course allows students to do is not only to reflect things within their profession but within their lives. It allows students to view the whole picture and circumstances and this module (module 3) has really homed these skills in. Module one teaches you the different forms of learning, analysing and reflection and how not to see what seems like a failure but has a success (celebrating your failures). I will take these skills to my students and my next career to help support them through difficult times especially when they think that they are failing.

So to all the staff at BAPP, THANK YOU and I wish you all the very best for the future

Support

The one theme that seems to come up in this inquiry is SUPPORT. It seems like support in any shape of form is pivotal to success.  Many professionals at these educational institutions all agreed that when a student has the right support and guidance, they are more likely to succeed and complete their course to the best of their ability. Many students I work with have low self-esteem, confident, self belief and achievement measurement because for most of their life they didn’t have the support they need. It is very difficult to try and raise their confident and self-esteem up especially when they had a lot of negativity in their lives.

Support comes from any source. Initial support starts at home then continues at school and with different groups within society.  The home support is the biggest support because that builds the foundation and helps shape our self-worth. If this isn’t there then it is very difficult for our sources to have a major impact within the person.  Many institutions and teachers stress that when a student continues their education (from the compulsory education), the parent still has to support, guide and help them more so than when they were attending school.