Fiona Williams

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Introduction to PDP Personal Development Planning

• Fiona Williams

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It will be useful for learners at all stages and
participating in any programme, both to improve
their ability to get the most out of their
learning journey and also out of life generally
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Welcome to My PDP an online Personal
Development Planning Resource for learners
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This session will introduce you to

• Personal Development Planning
• Whats in it for you?
• My PDP at this centre
• Looking at My PDP- finding your way about
• First Steps Getting Started
• Further Information Contacts
• Whats happening on your learning programme?

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DISCUSS

• What are all the factors you had to think about
  before embarking on this programme?

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What is PDP?

• Personal development planning (PDP) is a
  structured process to help you plan for the
  future by reflecting on your learning,
  performance and achievements.
• It involves thinking about aspects of your
  personality, education and further career paths

So, what does this mean in practice?
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Why do PDP?

• PDP will help you to
• review, plan and take more responsibility for
  your personal development
• Identify your goals and evaluate your progress
  towards achieving them
• become a more effective, independent, confident
  and self-directed learner
• improve your career planning skills and enhance
  your future employability
• begin or support the process of continuing
  professional development in your chosen
  occupation.

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For example, this PDP could help you to

• Review the skills you are developing
• Make good decisions about your next step
• Find out about opportunities for further study
• Possibly expand your horizons by taking up new or
  favourite activities
• Continue to develop, contribute to and build up a
  really good relevant CV

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What is My PDP?

• My PDP is
• an on-line resource to guide you through the
  process of personal development planning
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• templates to help you build an e-portfolio,
  recording your skills and plans, which you can
  share with others (friends, colleagues, family,
  potential future employers etc)
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• additional templates, for example, related to
  the specific transferable skills developed within
  your profession or current area of study

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The Homepage of My PDP
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Aspirations goals
Interests motivations
Personality Personal Qualities
Transferable skills
Learning Styles
Provides opportunity for reflective thinking
Build a better CV
Improve your career planning
Supports lifelong learning, and progression
Enhance your employability
Create and prioritise an action plan
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Find your way around
Core topics
Topic contents
Main sections
My Dundee tabs
Introductory area
Resource navigation
Getting started
Student area
Information area
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Accessing your Portfolio Area

• Log into My Dundee and click on the My Files tab.
• Select Portfolios (from the left hand side menu).
  You are now in your general portfolio area.
• Select My Portfolios from the list provided.
• A list of your current portfolios should now be
  displayed. This area will be empty if accessing
  it for the first time.

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Creating your PDP Portfolio

• Click on Add Basic Portfolio to create a new
  portfolio
• Add Your name and a Description
• Click Submit to save
• A link to your newly created PDP portfolio should
  now be available

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Adding Your Introductory Template to your PDP
Portfolio

• Select Modify (on the right hand side) of your
  newly created PDP portfolio. This will take you
  into the editing area of your portfolio. This
  area will be empty if accessing it for the first
  time. Then select Modify Content
• To add an introductory item
• select Add Item
• from the templates provided, select Angus My PDP
  - Introduction
• click Submit to save
• name your new menu item Introduction

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• In the Introductory template - enter your name
  and some text about yourself.
• You can add your photograph. Instructions on how
  to do this are provided under Additional
  Portfolio Instructions in the Advanced Tasks
  section
• click Submit to save
• A link to your newly created content area should
  now be available within your portfolio.

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Adding other Templates to your PDP Portfolio

• Add further standard templates on
• Aspirations Goals,
• Transferable Skills,
• Personality Personal Qualities,
• Interests Motivations,
• Learning Style,
• Summary,
• Priorities,
• CV Building

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Starting Personal Development Planning

• Now, using the guidance, examples and activities
  in About Me, you can start to add your
  personalised details, text and links to the My
  PDP templates to create your own PDP Portfolio

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Need more help and advice?

• Fiona Williams
• Email address f.z.williams_at_dundee.ac.uk
• Tel [phone]