PDP at Dartington

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PDP at Dartington

• Professional Development Portfolio
• Introduced a Paper based PDP system
• Departmental initiative/follow up

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Existing current practice

• Existing culture of self-reflective learning
• Focus on process
• Documentation and reflection is already a large
  part of assessment - up to 50 of a module.
• Student use of blogger myspace

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Department initiatives

• Fine Arts
• Self evaluation record
• Tutorial record
• Catalogue of works

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Staff feedback

• Concerns expressed
• Work load
• Duplication of existing practice
• Standardisation of format
• Positive outcomes
• Student led initiative
• Consolidation of portfolio elements
• Focus on transition to professional practice

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Student feedback

• Concerns expressed
• Orwellian dystopia!
• Standardisation of a creative practice
• Complexity of moving to an ePDP
• Positive outcomes
• Useful to generate a more formal document
• Useful management skills
• We were told that this would be an amazingly
  useful tool for us. As yet I am unsure of how to
  use it, or what it does But Im sure its great!
  MA student Dec 2005

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Next steps

• Ensure that we are not duplicating a process
• Assisting, supporting and adding to existing
  practice
• PDP as a professional mentoring tool and bridge
  to post-education employment
• Teaching a self management tool