Personal Development Planning

Personal Development Planning (PDP) - What is it?

• University wants to help you do well

• Personal Development Planning is about helping you do that - this means

• Helping you define your goals

• Helping you plan how to achieve your goals

• Most help the University can provide is in areas of career preparation through courses and modules i.e. help you plan your learning to help you reach your goals

Calendar of yearWhen What Induction week Introduction to PDP and tool-set. Academic personal tutor will introduce

themselves Semester 1 When Semester 1 results published.

You will be encouraged to review your goals and plans in light of your results

Semester 2 Module choice event (week 6ish)

Talks leading up to making module choices and possibly change of award for the next year.

Week 11 & 12 Year end review.

• Next year - Professional and Enterprise Development module - will expect you to do work on career planning, etc as part of the module

• Industrial placement - experience real work and find out what is best for you

• Final year - encouraged to think about future and plan in final year project

PDP = common-sense

• Encourages you to think about:

• Where you are

• What you want to do

• How to get there– includes planning how to deal with problems

that get in the way

• Monitor progress

General PDP processWhat to change. (Diagnosis and goal-setting)

How to change it - intermediate goals and actions defined + problem solving

Change it! (Actions)

Did it change? (Evaluation)

A. Analyse your current situation

B. Set some goals

C. Plan how to achieve those goals

D. Execute the plan

E. Assess how far you have met those goals

TOOL-SET

• Tool-set document provides some tools you can use to help you go through this process - not a complete exhaustive collection.

• You still have to do the hard part.

• You can use them for planning anything, but you can use them for thinking about and planning your learning while at the University

• Electronic copy of the tools is available at

www.fcet.staffs.ac.uk/mss1/pdp/• Tools are organised into groups according to how

they fit into the general process• They can be printed off and you can hand-write on

forms or you can type in Word• You will need to add extra rows and space for

typing, etc• You can modify them if you want - whatever helps

Learning outcomes• We recognise that when it comes to your learning

that you do not know exactly what knowledge and skills you need to prepare you for a career in a particular area - that is what we are for

• So we define what knowledge and skills are needed by someone who is to qualify with a particular award

• The University has done this by defining a set of learning outcomes for each award and module

• Learning outcome = set of knowledge and abilities you should have when you complete (successfully) an award or a module

• The achievement of those learning outcomes become goals you can use to plan around

• The learning outcomes for your modules are given in the module descriptor for that module. These are available from your module leader or from www.staffs.ac.uk/current/student/modules/