Report of the Assignments

Course Name: Self Development- Practicum

Course Code: MEDU1007

Program: Master of Education (M.Ed.)

First Semester
Session: Fall/Odd Semester 2021-22

Name of Student:
Enrolment No:
Admission Number: 21GSOE20100..

Course Teacher
Dr. Satyendra Gupta
Professor and Dean

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
 CONTENT

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ASSIGNMENTS DATE SIGNATURE
No.
1. Introduction of the Corse 13.10.2021
2. About Self Development 20.10.2021
3. SWOT Analysis- Personal 21.10.2021
4. SWOT Analysis- Professional 27.10.2021
5. Resume Writing and Self Development 11.11.2021
6. Need of Enrichment of Resume 24.11.2021
7. Basic Psychological Needs- My Opinion 03.12.2021
8. Anger Warning Signs- My Experiences 08.12.2021
9. How to Control Anger- My Suggestions 10.12.2021
10. Managing Our Personal Development 15.12.2021
11. Maslow's Process of Self-Actualisation 22.12.2021
12. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs 31.12.2021
13. List of Emotions 04.01.2022
14. Problem Solving Skills 05.01.2022
15. Problem Solving Worksheet 07.01.2022
16. My Self-Esteem Self-Discovery 12.01.2022
17. Setting Priorities About Values 19.01.2022
18. Words That Describe Me 21.01.2022
19. My Success Stories 28.01.2022
20. Changes in My Life 02.02.2022
21. My Experience and Suggestions about the
Course
Introduction of the Corse
Self-development and personal growth is a lifelong process which enables you to assess your
abilities, to set goals, and then take action to help you to achieve those goals and to maximize your
potential. The ultimate goal of self-development is to be a self-fulfilled person.

About Self Development

Self-development and personal growth is a lifelong process which enables you to assess your
abilities, to set goals, and then take action to help you to achieve those goals and to maximize your
potential.

SWOT Analysis- Personal

A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis is a technique that has been used
over the past few decades to assist organizations in identifying current and future trends. This
analysis is often used in developing strategic plans or in evaluating individual project conditions

SWOT Analysis- Professional

A SWOT analysis is a tool that helps you evaluate your strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities, and threats in relation to your career goals. It can help you identify
areas where you can improve your performance, leverage your competitive
advantages, and overcome potential challenges.

Resume Writing and Self Development

 Need of Enrichment of Resume

1. Select the best template for your skills, experience, and goals.
When choosing the design and layout, think about the following:
 The role you’re applying for, and the job description. For example, a graphic designer might choose a bold,
colorful template, while someone in accounting or finance might prefer a more traditional or corporate layout.
 The aspects of your professional history that are the most relevant
 Besides your name and contact information, the sections you'll need include education, previous employment and
professional experience, tools you are trained to use, technical skills, certifications and courses you’ve completed,
awards you’ve received, and hobbies and interests.
 How to position these sections within the template in the most advantageous way

2. Add skills or areas of expertise near or below your name.

Summarize who you are as a professional before providing all of the details. This section can take up two or three
lines on your resume and should include your area of expertise, such as “design thinking specialist” or
“investigative journalist,” and a list of your most relevant skills.

For each job you apply to, think about which skills the employer would most likely hire you for, and include those.
You can often determine what's most important to the potential employer by examining the job listing. Try to keep
your skills list specific and quantifiable, for example, "Agile project management" or "Python programming."

3. Include a robust and compelling objective.

In addition to conveying confidence in your abilities, this section can demonstrate to employers that you are
intentional about your career and the application you are submitting.

A resume objective can expand what you include in your area of expertise section by listing your professional
goals and what you’d like to contribute to the company to which you’re applying.

4. Display your online presence.

Near your name and contact information, list any online accounts you have that can showcase your interests,
passions, or previous work. The list could include social media, an online portfolio, or your website.

Be sure to remove anything from your online accounts that you don’t want a potential employer to view. Post
content that may be relevant to the job you’re applying for or that is your original work.

5. Use relevant keywords.

One of the most important things to get your resume seen is to use keywords optimized for the applicant tracking
systems (ATS) that recruiters and employers use to find prospective employees. An ATS allows recruiters to
process hundreds of resumes for relevant keywords and narrow down the pool of applicants they’ll invite to an
interview.

Find the best keywords by:

 Reviewing the job listing for keywords

 Googling “[industry] keywords” and making a list of the most relevant ones
 Using a free ATS to scan your resume for opportunities to optimize your keywords
6. Use action verbs.
In conjunction with your ATS keyword research, use action verbs, such as “managed,” “implemented,” or
“developed,” to describe the tasks you performed or projects you completed in previous roles. Action verbs are a
great way to specify your experience and emphasize your technical skills.

Here’s an example a cybersecurity analyst might use: “Implemented a backup system to add a layer of security
company data.”

7. Quantify your accomplishments in previous roles.

Include a sentence with your job scope and a bullet list of accomplishment items under each job. Try to be specific
and use concrete metrics that demonstrate the impact of your accomplishments. If you boosted social media
engagement in your last marketing job, for example, include the percentage of that increase.

A formula for resume success

Use this formula when highlighting your professional accomplishments: "[Action verb] [X] to [Y], resulting in
[Z]." Here’s an example a social media marketer might use: “Designed visual content to improve brand awareness,
resulting in a 30-percent increase in Facebook conversion.”

8. Include a section for hobbies and interests.

This section can show more of your personality and abilities you did not list in other areas of the
resume. Your hobbies and interests can be great conversation starters and position you as a well-rounded employee
with versatile skills.
If you're looking for your first job and don't yet have much professional experience, you might turn to your
extracurricular activities as a way to highlight key job skills, like problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, or
teamwork.

9. Get ahead of concerns.

At the same time that you include details about your professional history and career objectives that employers will
find attractive, remain mindful of potential red flags on your resume and address them.

Basic Psychological Needs- My Opinion

According to SDT there are three psychological needs (autonomy, competence,
relatedness) that are universally important for psychological wellbeing and
autonomous motivation. You can think of these universal needs in the same way you
think of physiological needs (e.g. hunger, thirst, sleep).

Anger Warning Signs- My Experiences

Not everyone expresses anger in the same way. For example,
some ways you may have learned to express anger
include: Outward aggression – such as shouting, swearing,
slamming doors, hitting or throwing things, being physically violent,
threatening others, or being verbally abusive.
How to Control Anger- My Suggestions
You can control your anger, and you have a responsibility to do so," says clinical
psychologist Isabel Clarke, a specialist in anger management.

Recognise your anger signs

Your heart beats faster and you breathe more quickly, preparing you for action. You might
also notice other signs, such as tension in your shoulders or clenching your fists. "If you
notice these signs, get out of the situation if you’ve got a history of losing control," says
Isabel.

Count to 10
Counting to 10 gives you time to cool down, so you can think more clearly and overcome the
impulse to lash out.

Breathe slowly
Breathe out for longer than you breathe in, and relax as you breathe out. "You automatically
breathe in more than out when you’re feeling angry, and the trick is to breathe out more than
in," says Isabel. "This will calm you down effectively and help you think more clearly."

Managing anger in the long term

Once you can recognise that you’re getting angry, and can calm yourself down, you can start
looking at ways to control your anger more generally.

Exercise can help with anger

Bring down your general stress levels with exercise and relaxation. Running, walking,
swimming, yoga and meditation are just a few activities that can reduce stress. "Exercise as
part of your daily life is a good way to get rid of irritation and anger," says Isabel.

Looking after yourself may keep you calm

Make time to relax regularly, and ensure that you get enough sleep. Drugs and alcohol can
make anger problems worse. "They lower inhibitions and, actually, we need inhibitions to
stop us acting unacceptably when we’re angry," says Isabel.

Get creative
Writing, making music, dancing or painting can release tension and reduce feelings of anger.

Talk about how you feel

Discussing your feelings with a friend can be useful and can help you get a different
perspective on the situation.

Let go of angry thoughts

"Try to let go of any unhelpful ways of thinking," says Isabel. "Thoughts such as 'It’s not fair,'
or 'People like that shouldn’t be on the roads,' can make anger worse."
Thinking like this will keep you focused on whatever it is that’s making you angry. Let these
thoughts go and it will be easier to calm down.
Try to avoid using phrases that include:

 always (for example, "You always do that")

 never ("You never listen to me")
 should or shouldn't ("You should do what I want," or "You shouldn't be on the roads")
 must or mustn't ("I must be on time," or "I mustn't be late")
 ought or oughtn't ("People ought to get out of my way")
 not fair

Anxiety, fear and anger

Sometimes when people talk about "anger" what they actually mean is aggression, says Dr
James Woollard, a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist. "Often when people
experience or appear to show anger, it’s because they are also feeling fear or perceive a
threat, and they are responding with a 'fight' response to this."
"Asking yourself, 'What might I be scared of?' can give you a different set of choices about
how to respond," says Dr Woollard

Getting help with anger

If you feel you need help dealing with your anger, see your GP. There might be local anger
management courses or counselling that could help you.
There are private courses and therapists who can help with anger issues. Make sure any
therapist you see is registered with a professional organisation, such as the British
Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy.

Anger management programmes

A typical anger management programme may involve one-to-one counselling and working in
a small group. The programmes can consist of a one-day or weekend course. In some
cases, it may be over a couple of months.
The structure of the programmes can differ, depending on who is providing it, but most
programmes include cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and counselling.

Managing Our Personal Development

1. Set goals

First and foremost, set goals and clear objectives. Identify and make note of want you and your

team need to achieve, then use this a benchmark and measure of success. Setting great

goals will help; make sure your goal is specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-based.

2. Write it down
Commit an action to paper (or a digital to-do list) in the moment. Performance management

systems - such as Breathe's one-to-one and performance review feature can help keep you on

track for personal development targets.

Afterall, no-one likes a nagging, unticked checklist.

3. Do what works for you

If you've done something in a certain way before and it helped you improve, then use that tactic

again. It’s no good buying umpteen self-help books if you know that you respond better to

learning through training courses.

4. Start small

It could seem daunting to "make yourself a better communicator". But if you break that sizeable

target down into smaller steps and start on just one of them, then the task seems less formidable.

If you challenge yourself to achieve just a modest goal at first, you can grow from there once

you're ready. Reaching a small, more achievable personal development goal empowers and

encourages us to continue. In no time at all, you will be merrily working away towards your

ultimate end-goal.

5. Go at your own pace

This is similar to the previous point. As well as starting small, you shouldn't pressurise yourself

to achieve something in too short a timeframe. We often overcommit, so if you can't reach your

goal in the time you have allowed, be kind to yourself and relax the deadline. If your goal is

marathon-like, you might not achieve it all in one go, but each step you take will be a step nearer

the finishing line.

6. Improve existing skills

When it comes to self-improvement, we often concentrate on learning something new. But

sometimes you might want to consider improving something you're already good at, rather than

addressing one of your weaknesses. Too often we focus on our negatives. But if you can

strengthen something you're already good at, you could become extraordinary at it. The benefits

of that to your small business could be spectacular.

7. Have a winners’ mindset

It’s never wrong to embrace and address your failures, that way you will learn from them. If you

go into new experiences and learning situations with the mindset that you will achieve, you are

more likely to do so. Carol Dweck, author of “Mindset: The New Psychology of

Success”, says that successful people have a growth mindset and that they “believe that even

basic talents and abilities can be developed over time through experience, mentorship, and so

on. And these are the people who go for it. They’re not always worried about how smart they are,

how they’ll look, what a mistake will mean. They challenge themselves and grow.”

8. Learn from failure

Try to take something from every personal encounter you have. Most people we come across day

to day can teach us something that we can then apply in our own lives. At the simplest level, the

friendly customer service you received when you picked up your morning coffee will probably

have brightened your day. Can you then apply that attitude in your next encounter and make

someone else similarly happy? Try also to be open to new opinions and new ways of doing

things; you never know what you might learn.

9. Employ a deeper approach

It is sometimes best to study one thing in great depth than to learn lots of things at a more

superficial level. You may have identified a few aspects of your character that you want to

address in your personal development plan. It's almost a given that you won't be able to take on

everything at once. So address one thing at a time and dedicate enough time and resource to it

so that you can approach it more deeply and thoroughly than you otherwise might have been

able to.

10. Prioritise your personal development

Set aside the time to spend on yourself. Put your own development at the top of your agenda and

focus thoroughly on it. Unless you apply yourself, your new learning won’t become a habit and

things will gradually wane. Besides, you’re worth it.

11. Measure your achievements

Measuring your progress along the way allows you to adjust your plan if you are not on track. If

something's not working, you might need to stretch a deadline or adjust the objectives or the

strategy itself. If you at least know that it's not working, you can then ask why. You can

additionally consider how you might be able to make it work and what you have learned from it.

Maslow's Process of Self-Actualisation

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs