Personal and Professional Development Planning (PDP) for Students 2007

1. Personal and Professional Development Planning (PDP) for Students 2007 The PDP cycle Plan Identify Do Record Recognise Review • What is PDP? • 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 process. (Quality Assurance Agency (2001) Guidelines for HE progress files, Gloucester, QAA) • At Napier University this will additionally mean helping students to make best use of the opportunities their modular programme offers • Individualising the HE experience for all students, enabling them to meet their full potential by gaining well-founded self-awareness & confidence • Why PDP? • Research is showing that students who engage in effective PDP activities: • Understand how they learn and how this affects themselves and their personal, academic & career activities and choices both now and in the future • Improve their general skills for study, personal and career management, including self-evaluation • Gain increased confidence and self-direction by developing an ability to articulate their goals, their learning and their own strengths and weaknesses (Adapted from PDP (2006)The higher Education Academy) • Principles of Personal & Professional Development Planning • Personal and professional development planning should: • Have the enhancement of student academic achievement, career planning and personal development as its core aim. • Be recognised as a valuable mainstream programme activity for all undergraduate and postgraduate students. • Encourage students to develop a well-founded confidence and stronger sense of identity as their knowledge and understanding about themselves increases. • Consist of a clearly articulated and coherent range of directed and supported activities that are designed to provide students with opportunities to develop themselves both now and in the future. • Begin during the recruitment process, carry on from induction onwards and build on current local good practices throughout the life of the programme. • Motivate students to develop their learning and their thinking skills by encouraging them to engage in and connect: with activities[1].that encourage them to: • identify (their goals/targets/intentions and their current strengths/weaknesses) • plan (for learning and achievement) • do (aligning plans and intentions with actions) • recognise and record (both the process and the results of learning and achievement) • review (evaluate experiences and results of learning and achievement) • 7. Enhance students’ chances of progress and success by ongoing encouragement and exploration of: • their expanding knowledge and understanding of their subject area • their increasing range of skills and attributes • both their strengths and areas for improvement • how these can be used and built upon at university and beyond • how they can affect the world around them[2]. • 8. Be stimulated, supported and guided by the student’s personal development tutor (PDT) and enhanced by a range of high quality educational activities that encourage high quality student achievements, skills and attributes. • [1] Adapted from Supporting Learning: Personal Development Planning (2005)The Higher Educational Academy PDP page. • [2] Adapted from p.37 of Knight, P.T. and Yorke, M. (2003) Assessment, Learning and Employability, Maidenhead, SHRE & OUP. • Student Entitlement Model • Dedicated time and focus • Purposeful personal development tutor support • Programme coherence and transparency • Well-planned learning and teaching experiences • Significant & appropriate opportunities and choices, including co-curricular activities Screen Beansã A Bit Better Corporation Napier University’s PDP Group: contact Jenny Westwood (EdDev in first instance