Personal and Professional Development - Term 2

• Goals for session• Further re-enforce your understanding of:

– Personal Development Planning Process– Personal & Professional Development File– Submissions and Assessment Criteria

• Goal Setting • Self Evaluation • Relationship between them• Reflection • Researching Careers

Personal and Professional Development File

• Learning Plan– Self evaluation – Setting (and adapting) goals and priorities

• Reflective Commentary– Reflection on Significant Learning Experiences and– Changes, for example in goals

• Evidence Base– Examples of projects, comments from tutors or peers

Outline of Unit – Level 1 / 2

Personal and Professional Development File

Term 1

Self EvaluationGoal Setting

Developing Learning Plan

1st Submission 25% Learning Plan

Self EvaluationGoal Setting

Initial Reflective Commentary

2nd submission 75%End of Term 2

PPD File

Evidence of Progress and Reflection

Assessment Criteria

• Thoroughly review their own strengths and weaknesses (particularly as a learner) and relate these to relevant models, such as learning styles;

• Develop and set out personal and professional goals, particularly in relation to learning, that are informed by the models covered within the unit;

• Evidence their learning and personal and professional development by gathering relevant material and presenting this in an appropriate form.

Assessing Goal Setting

• Develop and set out personal and professional goals, particularly in relation to learning, that are informed by the models covered within the unit

Smarter Goals

• Specific: State exactly what you want to achieve, in detail

• Measurable: State how you will know that you’ve achieved it

• Achievable: Make sure that it’s in your control and possible for you

• Realistic: Can you do this with the time / resources that are available?

• Time-bound: Set clear deadlines: final and at points along the way

• Enjoyable: Consider how this can be as enjoyable as possible

• Rewarding: Consider how you will get the most benefit

Examples of Goals - Long Term

• I want to work as a producer

• I’m particularly interested in taking ideas from an early stage through to production.

• I would like to work on small productions, particularly drama for film and television

Example Goals - Continued

• I want to write professionally, probably as a free lance. The main area I’m interested in is writing comedy, for television, but I realise that this is the most competitive medium and I may well have to write in a number of different mediums such as for stand ups, radio, print and the web.

• Also I may have to learn to write for different genres – not just comedy in order to make a living, especially to start with. It will be very important for me to develop a reputation for the quality of my writing but also for being dependable and flexible.

Example Goals - Continued

• Also a network of contacts will be important. This causes me a difficulty because I find it hard to talk about myself so I will try to improve on this by practicing on my course but also by trying to focus on my ideas not on me and also by choosing to contact people that seem similar to me. Finding others to work with who are also trying to build a reputation will also help.

• New Goals– Develop contacts & improve how I present my ideas.

Assessing Self Evaluation

• Thoroughly review their own strengths and weaknesses (particularly as a learner) and relate these to relevant models, such as learning styles

Areas for Self Evaluation

• Attitude to and Skills as a Learner– Use work on Learning Styles - what are your

preferences– How independent are you and how well do you work

with others

• Skills - Transferable & Subject Specific• Your interests / passions• Things that you have realised from your course• Things that you most want / need to change

Example Self Evaluation

• I am good at developing ideas. I can come up with lots of ideas by myself although I find it easier to choose which idea is best to work on by discusssing them with others. I am not as good at presenting my ideas – I am pretty good at doing this with friends and when chatting but not so good when I’m in front of tutors. I find that it’s difficult to convince people of how good my ideas are and sometimes this makes me doubt them (and also my mind goes blank).

Self evaluation - Continued

• I have found that I’m better at organising and administration than I thought that I would be. I can work out the budgets and shooting schedule. In unit xxx and projects xxx I have taken responsibility for these aspects…

• This has made me think that I might be able to work as a producer or production manager…

Self Evaluation and Reflection

• ‘The greatest unexplored territory in the world is the space between our ears’ O’ Brien

• “People with a high level of personal mastery are acutely aware of their ignorance, their incompetence, their growth areas…………

• And they are deeply self-confident” Senge: The Fifth Discipline.

Researching Careers

Prospects including job descriptions, salaries etc

www.prospects.ac.uk

Jobs, work experience, careers information

www.arts.ac.uk/student/careers

Visual and Audio Broadcast careers

Skillsetwww.skillset.org/careers

Ideas Factoryhttp://

www.ideasfactory.com/careers

Television production assistant: Entry requirements

• Need to show evidence of the following:

• excellent communication skills;

• sound administrative and organisational skills;

• fast, accurate word processing skills;

• good numeracy and the ability to manage a budget;

• enthusiasm;

• stamina and persistence; • initiative and adaptability; • the ability to work with a wide

range of people; • problem-solving skills; • the ability to prioritise and

cope with last-minute changes, eg to scripts, whilst under pressure

Reflection

One of the most interesting projects we have done so far was in xxx unit. We had to produce a short series of vox pops about a topic of our choice. We did this working in groups of 4. We had to do all stages of this including planning, doing a shooting schedule and risk assessment, through to editing. One of the things I learned was how many stages and possible problems there are to even a fairly simple shoot. In this case working in a group was a big help because it meant we could take different roles and while one person was operating the camera another was doing sound and another was setting up the interviews.

Reflection

We did a group project for xxx this didn’t go as well. It was a longer project and we had to decide the different roles among ourselves. We couldn’t agree on the best idea to work on and some of the group went off on their own idea. I found it hard to get my point across without making everyone more tense. In the end we all worked on this idea and produced a reasonable piece because near the end we just got on with it.

This surprised me because I thought we were going to work well together. I learnt from this that working in groups can be harder than it seems especially when you don’t have clear roles. In future I will try to make sure that we have a way of deciding things and maybe spend more time just brainstorming ideas before trying to decide.

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We took on different roles, We took on different roles, such as camera operator, such as camera operator, director, and interviewer…director, and interviewer…

We had to produce a short We had to produce a short documentary about the documentary about the college. We filmed it in 1 college. We filmed it in 1 day and took 2 days to editday and took 2 days to edit