Learning Line

The diagram below is my “learning line”. A learning line is used in personal development planning to illustrate the different stages that someone has taken throughout their life so far which has made a significant contribution to their learning and development. At Anglia Ruskin University we are Personal Development Planning as this equips us properly with the tools we need to further ourselves in HE and eventually work.
My learning line is fairly varied. I’ve been lucky enough to have had the chance to work with several extremely experienced professionals from the areas I’m involved in both for work purposes and university. I’ve done this through working at various different establishments and this is all illustrated below. I used to work as an assistant IT Technician at my old high school/sixth form college and worked with three experienced professionals. Through my work with them I learnt and experienced a lot of situations, scenarios and problems which I’m fairly confident I wouldn’t have experienced for several years without them.

In terms of high school, I progressed through primary school up to high school where I used to live in North London. I left in Year 9 as my family moved down to a seaside town called Walton on the Naze in Essex. I personally believe that moving to Essex and starting a new school was the best thing I’ve ever done as I made so many new friends and was given so many more opportunities which I don’t feel I would have achieved where I was living.

I did a gap year before university after leaving sixth form as I wasn’t sure whether I wanted to go into higher education. I spent a majority of this time working as a freelance Computer Engineer and as a theatre technician in a local council run theatre. I still work there in my spare time outside of university which is a big bonus for me. I am also studying for MCITP certification on Windows Server 2008 outside of university.