Personal Development Planning (PDP) involves taking some time out at regular intervals during your course to:
- Review your overall progress, the feedback that you have received and your recent achievements (Reflect)
- Use this information to help you to decide your next steps and long-term goals (Plan)
- Work to achieve your goals (Do)
- Consider the progress you have made towards your goals, recognise any new achievements that you have made and think about what else you could do to improve your academic performance and/or employability (Review)
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PDP Starter Exercises
- PDP Filestore (Password Protected)
- Identify your current learning preferences (you may be directed to a Learning Styles exercise by staff)
- Make a Time Management Plan. - The Learning Development Service provides further information and resources to support the development of your time management skills
- Recording PDP and Communicating Skills and Achievements to Others
You are encouraged to maintain an evidenced record of your skills, experiences and achievements during your time at Queen’s. The University will support you in getting started with this, e.g. by providing you with a free "Myfuture" account. This includes an e-portfolio, Career event listings, Careers and Learning Development Service booking tool and an academic and career development planner plus an achievement logger. By keeping a record like this, you are generating an aide-mémoire that should be helpful to you when you start to prepare CV's, Job/postgraduate course applications and to plan possible answers to potential interview questions. Setting yourself goals to complete within a set timeframe is also a good way of organising and motivating yourself towards further achievements.
- Sample Action Plan
- Sample Learning Log
- Template to help you make a record of key points discussed at a meeting with your Personal Tutor
- Further PDP Exercises and Support
Your development plan is your strategy to improve your academic performance and/or enhance your longer term employability, e.g. by engaging in Degree Plus or other career planning activities.
The following resources may also assist you in reviewing your strengths and weaknesses in,
Working as a member of a team
Addressing other goals within your Development Plan
- Free Online Personality Test (Based on Jung/Myers-Briggs)
- Belbin Team-role Descriptors
- Evidencing your current abilities in working with others
- Learning Development Service resources for developing general academic skills
- Student Gateway
- Student Union Advice Centre
- School-based PDP Exercises and Information
Excersises and Information
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FACULTY OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Careers Service Presentation to Level 1 History Students (Roisin Copeland) (ppt)
Law: Careers and PDP Presentation Nov 2009 (RC, ppt)
PDP Guide for Level 2 Sociology students
Task 5 Assessment and Feedback Task, Law
Learning Log for Part-time Degree, School of Education
- Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Further online resources for Planning students
Self Assessment 1 - Annotated Bibliography and Identification of a Research Topic (Planning)
Self Assessment 2 - Visual and Spacial Skills (Studio Skills, Planning)
Self Assessment 3 - Questionnaire Design (Planning)
- FACULTY OF MEDICINE, HEALTH AND LIFE SCIENCES
Study Guide for Nursing and Midwifery students (produced by Bill Scott)
Nursing: Reflection Doc (Sept 08)
Nursing: Reflective Account (Sept 08)
Nursing; PDP Activity 1 (Sept 08)
Nursing: Personal Tutor XL (Sept 08)
Introducing Professional Skills Development in Nursing and Midwifery
Poster and PowerPoint advice (Biosciences skills module)
Tips for Level 1 and 2 Dental Students from Peers in Level 3 (pdf)
Link to NIPEC E-folio (Continuing Professional Development E-folio for Nurses and Midwives)
Evidencing Skills in Working with Others (Nov 2010)
- ASSOCIATE COLLEGES AND INSTITUTIONS