Progression goals (AC:1)

 In the criteria for AC1 is the wording Plans for Progression

One of the key ways of addressing this in your work is to incorporate it in your reflective practice under the heading analysis using a sub-heading "Progression goals".

Whether the work you've produced is research or practical, you should analyse what value was there in producing the work in terms of your progression goals. You could break down your progression goals into 4 differing types...

Immediate goals e.g. Completing the task/unit you're currently working on at a high standard.

Short-term goals e.g. Producing high quality finals for each task and completing year 1 to a high standard.

Mid-term goals e.g. Completing the qualification and being able to access University, assisting work, apprenticeships or internships.

Long-term goals e.g. your dream job - Fashion Photographer with own studio, travel photographer who travels all round the world.

 E.g. progression on to University or Employment. (Click image for source of image). 

This is a part of the criteria for AC:1 and typically the criteria demands that your work informs your progression. 

Progression - because you've signed up for a Photography course at level 3, the expectation is that you have plans to progress onto becoming a Photographer or to do a HE (Higher Education) course in Art or more specifically Photography (Degree/HND).

In your work, it is massively beneficial to discuss your work in terms of how it informs and helps with your plans for progression.

Typically this discussion/analysis might be seen in your reflections where you take the time to comment and analyse how the work and learning you've done has been beneficial in terms of your long term goals. One of the key aspects is your portfolio...

"In this last task, in terms of my plans for progression I feel that some of the images I've done at earlier stages of the development (Images on page 10 and 11) and the finals are of a standard I'd be happy to include in my portfolio. As such, I've separated these images and saved them as TIFF files in the Task Folder and named them as Portfolio Images, so that I can find them easily". 

You should use the reflections to review your in terms of your progression goals, ultimately you're looking to be a photographer or some kind - maybe a landscape photographer? In which case mention you're hoping to be a landscape photographer and once you've completed any of your developmental shoots critically question the usefulness of each shoot in terms of your progression - does the work add anything of any value to the idea that you're going to go on and be a landscape photographer (Or whatever type is your progression goal). Was there any value in the shoot - what did you learn that will be potentially useful to you? 

*Note if you seem to be repeating the same process over and over again not challenging yourself, you're not really working towards your progression goal.  

 One of the key things that you should do is use the phrasing seen in the criteria in this case Plans for progression when you write this up as in the example above, or alternatively use the phrase as a sub-heading within the analysis section of your reflection.