PDP: Example

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Personal Development Plan Examples and Guidance

In order to achieve success in your education, career, and personal life, continuously improving your knowledge, skills and experience should be of a high priority. Creating a Personal Development Plan (PDP) helps to provide you with the structure and guidance you need to be proactive, and actually take the steps needed to reach your aims and goals.

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Content

PDP Guidance

Example: International Foundation Year: Pages 1 & 2

Example: International Foundation Year: Pages 3 & 4

Example: International Year 1: Pages 1 & 2

Example: International Year 1: Pages 3 & 4

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Personal Development Plan - Brief explanation

A digital resume (your Personal Development Plan):

• Allows you to track and show actual evidence of your strengths, achievements, and passions versus just simply writing about them.
• Gives you an edge and can help you stand out compared to other candidates.
• Helps you tell your learning and employment journey so far.
• Provides a more complete picture of who you are.
• Gives an opportunity to showcase best work and works in progress.

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Personal Development Plan - Creation advice

When you create your PDP, it is important that it is detailed enough so that it actually provides a useful plan of action. You also need to refer back to your PDP regularly to track whether you are on course to achieve your aims, and whether you have achieved your goals. Your PDP is not set in stone, and should be thought of as a flexible guide that you can adapt when the need arises.

• What skills do you think you need to develop?
• What areas of your studies do you need to improve?
• Are there wider aims and goals in your personal life that you want to achieve?
• You might have some short-term goals, and you might have some longer-term goals.

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Personal Development Plan - Setting goals

You can increase your chances of success by setting SMART goals.SMART goals are designed in a way that provides a structure with guidelines, and a way of defining and measuring success. We call them SMARTgoals because each letter in SMART stands for one aspect of the goal that ensure it's:

• Specific
• Measurable
• Achievable / Attainable / Actionable
• Relevant / Realistic / Relatable
• Time-bound

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Personal Development Plan Example

International Foundation Year

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Why am I studying this course?

What do I want to accomplish this year?

Goal 1 Date:

What is my goal?

Why have I chosen this goal?

What might be a barrier to achieving my goal? Why?

What do I need to do to achieve this goal?

Time to reflect. What have I learnt from this goal?

Date & Progress: Reflection:

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Goal 2 Date:

I chose this course because I want to develop a career in the Fashion Industry.

I want to be manage my time.

What is my goal?

I want to Pass and progress to my chosen [insert uinversity] and improve my English learning.

I am struggling a lot with my time mamagement and it's making me stressed.

Why have I chosen this goal?

There is a lot of assignemnts and exams that are all due on the same week and I'm struggling to get them all submitted on time and it's causing me to panic.

What might be a barrier to achieving my goal? Why?

I want to do better in my AES speaking.

I need to plan and organise my time using my academic calender and not be afraid to ask for any support with assignments.

What do I need to do to achieve this goal?

I'm struggling in my AES speaking and I want to improve.

Date & Progress: Reflection:

[insert date]

Time to reflect. What have I learnt from this goal?

When planning and organising my time I was able to complete my work and not be stressed thanks to the support from my tutors.

I'm not confident in my speaking and I speak more in my home language when I am on campus. I also speak in my home language with my flatmates.

Practise my speaking when I am on campus and outside of education.

I need to do more research with insendi and practise more on my AES writing.

Exit Interview Review: and End of Year Reflection:

[insert date]

What is the focus of my personal development for next year?

I need to improve my time management by using my calendar to help me organise my day.

'Have more confident and don't be shy, practise by myself amd with my friends.

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1st Progression Profile

2nd Progression Profile

3rd Progression Profile

Progression Profile Notes:

Notes from Progression Profile Meeting:

What are my strengths?

What are my areas for improvement?

What actions do I need to take to improve? (remember to refer to your goals!)

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Personal Development Plan

International Year One

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Goal 1 Date:

What is my goal?

Why have I chosen this goal?

What might be a barrier to achieving my goal? Why?

What do I need to do to achieve this goal?

Time to reflect. What have I learnt from this goal?

Date & Progress: Reflection:

Feedback and feed-forward I have received academically:

Feedback and feed-forward I have received pastorally:

What is my long-term vision?

What do I wan t to accomplish this year?

Goal 1 Date:

What is my goal?

Why have I chosen this goal?

What might be a barrier to achieving my goal? Why?

What do I need to do to achieve this goal?

Time to reflect. What have I learnt from this goal?

Date & Progress: Reflection:

My long term vision is to be able to find a job after graduation, in the times I would like to build up my employability skills.

I want to build my leadership skills and teamworking ability.

My goal is to practice my AES writing skills, while remembering to reference my work, and proof reading before submission.

The reason why I have chosen this goal is because I need to add references into my work and to also proof read my work before submission to check any spelling mistakes.

The barrier that I face is that I forget to reference my work that I research and I submit my work an hour or two before the deadline.

I need to remember to reference my work, and proof read my work before the deadline, before submission I can ask for some feedback on what I could improve.

I need to remember to reference my work, and proof read my work before the deadline, before submission I can ask for some feedback on what I could improve.

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1st Progression Profile

2nd Progression Profile

3rd Progression Profile

Progression Profile Notes:

Notes from Progression Profile Meeting:

What are my strengths?

What are my areas for improvement?

What actions do I need to take to improve? (remember to refer to your goals!)

Exit Interview Review:

End of Year Reflection:

What is the focus of my personal development for next year?

My Notes: