Question 1

1. How do you keep up to date with current and sector developments? Provide at least three examples to support your response.

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Question 2

1. Have you ever used a mentor to support your professional development? If yes, explain how this helped you achieve your personal or professional goals. If no, see b) below.

1. If you have not had the opportunity to use a mentor, explain why having a mentor would be helpful to you in your future career.

Question 3

Provide one example of how you will use each of the following as an opportunity for professional development?

• Professional associations
• Informal and formal ways of learning and developing.

Question 4

1. Provide an example of how you have demonstrated each of the following legal and ethical considerations when reviewing and improving your professional practice:

• Codes of practice.

• Duty of care.

• Rights and responsibilities as an educator.

• Work role boundaries.

• Limitations within your role.

Question 5

1. Where could you go to network with other sector professionals? Provide at least three examples.

Question 6

1. What additional training could you undertake to complement or enhance your current skills? Provide at least three examples.

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Question 7

1. What is your preferred learning style? Why is this effective?

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Question 8

1. Consider two of your peers you work closely with on a regular basis. For each peer, identify their learning style and how this helps improve their learning experience.

	Learning style	How can you improve the learning experience?
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Question 9

1. You are working at Little.ly Early Learning Centre and one of your colleagues, who is an educator suddenly became very unwell. They complained of tightness in the neck and shoulders early on in the day but now was in a cold sweat with a pressing pain in the chest. They were short of breath and clearly not well.
2. You called for your supervisor who was a first aid officer, but she was out of the office. You suddenly realised that your colleague was in big trouble but, despite being trained in first aid you felt like you didn't know what to do.
3. You wasted precious minutes trying to find your mobile phone so you could ring the ambulance. Luckily, the person on the end of the line talked you through the process. Once you started CPR you remembered everything you had learnt. The ambulance arrived and took over from you.
4. Your colleague thankfully recovered in hospital and after they were released, thanked you for your assistance and for how you responded that day. You had been feeling terrible since the incident because of your panic.

Using one of the models of professional reflection (for example, Kolb's or Gibb's model), describe the process you would go through to reflect on your response to this incident.

a) Which model of reflection have you chosen?

b) Describe the process that you would go through, using the scenario to explain the answer