Personal and Professional Development Term 2

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Personal and Professional Development - Term 2

• Goals for session
• Increase your understanding of
• Personal Development Planning Process
• Personal Professional Development File
• Submissions and Assessment Criteria
• Goal Setting
• Self Evaluation
• Relationship between them

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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

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Outline of Unit Level 1 / 2
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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.

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Setting Goals Helps Us To

• Understand where we want to go and why
• Find what you are passionate about
• Make things achievable and motivating
• Plan for short and longer term priorities
• Monitor our progress and keep on track
• Be Flexible in how we get to where we want
• Hope can be defined as believing you have both
  the will and the way to accomplish your goals.
  Snyder

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Goal Setting - How Assess?

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

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Smarter Goals

• Specific State exactly what you want to achieve,
  in detail
• Measurable State how you will know that youve
  achieved it
• Achievable Make sure that its 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

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Examples of Goals - Long Term

• I want to work as a producer
• Im 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

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Example Goals - Continued

• I want to write professionally, probably as a
  free lance. The main area Im 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.

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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.

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Assessing Self Evaluation

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

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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

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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 Im in front of tutors. I find that
  its difficult to convince people of how good my
  ideas are and sometimes this makes me doubt them
  (and also my mind goes blank).

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Self evaluation - Continued

• I have found that Im 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

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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.

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Levels of Description
Context Principles Meaning

Process Stages
Description Bits, Steps