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Title: Personal Development Planning Institutional and discipline contexts


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Personal Development PlanningInstitutional and
discipline contexts
  • Dr Angela Smallwood, PADSHE project
  • University of Nottingham
  • angela.smallwood_at_nottingham.ac.uk

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Dearing Recommendation 20
  • Progress File two elements
  • A transcript recording student achievement
  • a means by which students can monitor, build
    and reflect upon their personal development

3
Personal Development Planning
  • 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 May 2000 CVCP, LTSN, QAA, SCoP
    policy recommendations

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Why do it?
  • Reflective, independent learners
  • Strategic priorities
  • Underpinning student support as numbers
    expand (especially widening participation)
  • Skills and employability agenda
  • e-learning
  • Structure support -gt Progress File provides
    a key interface between the Univ. and the
    individual student

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Incentives for staff on the ground
  • 1993 Nottingham
  • Responding to modularisation
  • Regaining overviews
  • Improving systems no casualties
  • 2000 FDTL3 (Thames VU) - retention
  • 2004 Related needs in your institution?

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Designing PDP
  • Existing opportunities in the curriculum
    subjects, modes of study (assessment)
  • Dedicated new modules, assessed ??
  • Careers service-led initiatives
  • Existing personal tutoring system
  • Institution-wide coverage
  • Potentially holistic
  • Not assessed

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Benchmarks and PDP English
  • Opportunities
  • Reflective modes of assessment
  • Project work and dissertations
  • Analogies
  • Objects of study texts, learning experiences
  • Interpreting evidence, articulating insights
  • Critical dialogue taking others viewpoints on
    board, informed self-criticism

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Implementation students
  • Consultation during implementation
  • Addressing students needs
  • Positive staff vibes
  • Creation of an entitlement culture
  • Scope for personalisation
  • Support from student reps

9
Keys to student participation
  • The right people allocation of tutors
  • The right time timing of supported activities
  • The right aims purposes of review and planning
    meetings specific to course, level, semester,
    even week relevant to immediate student need
    (e.g. overview of feedback)
  • IT magic (ePARs) automatic draft CV etc.

10
Issues for staff
  • Workload a) initially (reinventing wheels?)
  • Definition of support element of role students
    as adults tutor as nanny or mentor?
  • Careers adviser manque? Tutor role in relation to
    employability agenda
  • Paperwork organisation bureaucracy? Product
    and process tail wags dog

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CIT solutions?
  • Developing pedagogy paper as leading technology?
  • IT reduces paperwork conserves staff time
    supports, increases and enhances the quality of
    engagement by students
  • Interfaces with Information Strategy, portal
    development IT for 16-19 Progress File IT
    for CPD in employment
  • A different take on personalisation and
    standardisation
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