Personal Development Planning PDP Embedding PDP across the
Personal Development Planning (PDP) Embedding PDP across the curriculum Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit
What is a Progress File? A progress file charts the progress of an individual. The overall concept involves: • The institutional transcript • Personal record of learning and achievement • Personal development plan Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit
What is PDP? QAA: ‘structured and supported process undertaken by an individual • to reflect upon their own learning performance and/or achievement, and • to plan for their personal, educational and career development. ’ Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit
PDP and the Progress File Process for recording learning and achievement, and guidance systems to support PDP Personal Development Planning Opportunities for practising PDP within and outside the HE curriculum Reflective process to improve own learning Personal Development Records Transcript Information owned by the institution Information owned by student Creative use of information and the skills that underlie PDP by students. Information, skills and behaviours that are valued by academics and employers Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit
The Reflective Cycle Action Plan If it arose again what would you do? Conclusion What else could you have done? Description What happened? Feelings What were you thinking and feeling? Analysis What sense can you make of the situation Evaluation What was good and bad about the experience? Gibbs, G. (1988) Learning by Doing–a Guide to Teaching and Learning Methods, Further Education Unit, Oxford Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit
How does LSBU currently address PDP? Personal development publications: • What now? (level 0) • Don’t panic (level 1) • Yourself (level 2) • About your future (level 3) • It’s all yours (level M) These can be viewed as pdfs on the intranet at www. lsbu. ac. uk/caxton/pdp/index. html Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit
How does LSBU currently address PDP? Learning and Development Centre: • Learning for work • Career Management Skills Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit (LTEU) Learning Information Services (LIS) Careers and Student Employment Unit (Ca. SEU) Widening Participation Unit (Mentor/Ambassador roles) Courses may already address many aspects of PDP Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit
Strategy for developing PDP Since many LSBU awards are vocationally focussed the curricula often already address employability directly or indirectly. • Map existing syllabus activities • Address gaps • Embed across the curricula Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit
Contacts Ruth Brown LTEU Ext. 7804 ruth. brown@lsbu. ac. uk Tom Hall LTEU Ext. 8290 tom. hall@lsbu. ac. uk LTEU Website: PDP page: www. lsbu. ac. uk/lteu select ‘Projects’ then ‘PDP’ Peter Godwin LIS Ext. 6621 godwinp@lsbu. ac. uk Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit
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