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Personal Development Planning (PDP)
PDP is part of the Progress File for Higher Education. The Progress File will provide each student with: a transcript (a record of their learning and achievement), as well as a means by which the student can "monitor, build and reflect on their personal development" through out their course.
Relating PDP to Learning and Teaching
For Students
The primary objective for PDP is to improve the capacity of individuals to understand what and how they are learning and to review, plan and take responsibility for their own learning. As a result the benefit to students should be:
- Become more effective, independent and confident self-directed learners
- Understand how they are learning and relate their learning to a wider context
- Improve their general skills for study and career management
- Articulate personal goals and evaluate progress towards their achievement
- Develop a positive attitude to learning throughout life
For Academic Tutors
The effective use of PDP should provide Academic tutors with:
- Added value to the learning and teaching experience.
- Facilitate more effective monitoring of student progress
- Provide a more focused academic support and guidance from the tutors
- Supply a mechanism for recording the tutorial and pastoral support tutors provide to students
- Enhance your capacity to demonstrate the quality of support tutors give students
- Help to improve how effectiveness work-based or work-related learning (where applicable)
Putting PDP into Practice
PDP can be seen as a new way of articulating existing principles and practice. Tutors have always encouraged students to make progress to intellectual independence, self wareness and to take responsibility for their own development. This has been achieved by using the tutors existing skills to support students:
- by providing feedback
- by providing challenges and different perspectives
- identify possibilities for change
PDP is an explicit dialogue to enable the tutors skills to be effectively used and students to develop a record of their achievement and progress in a systematic manor to encourage learning through a reflective and planning progress.
Definition:
‘a 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.’ (QAA, 2000)
Related Links:
- EASIMAP Project
- What is Reflection?
- Relating PDP to the Personal Tutorial System
- Relating PDP to Student Retention
- EngSC Guide:
PDP for Engineering Students