Personal Development Planning

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Personal Development Planning
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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

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Calendar of year
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• 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

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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

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General PDP process

• What 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
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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

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• 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

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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

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• 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/