The difference between the professional development plan and your learning log are:
Learning log
The difference between the professional development plan and your learning log are:
Your professional development plan is often shared with others
Your learning log is for you and no one else
There are some elements which mark good PDPs: clear and challenging goals, the relevance to you and your environment, a balance of goals, some ambition and stretch
There is no right or wrong for a learning log
Helps you to record, structure, think about and reflect upon your professional development
Helps you to record, structure, think about and reflect upon your personal learning
Contains a range of goals, always connected to work/ professional environment
About learning in general
Usually in table format
Can be in any form you like
Good questions to ask yourself:
Where do I want to go?
What is important to me?
How can I have balance in my professional life?
Which activities and goals are interdependent?
What are my priorities?
How do I want to progress?
What have I learned about myself, and how does this need to inform my PDP?
Good questions to ask yourself:
What exactly have I learned?
Have I put any theory into practice?
How am I progressing (or not)?
How can I use this to plan for the future?
How can I use this to plan new learning?
What feels good, does not feel good?
Tips for success:
A learning log only works if you log it
Keep it up and keep it regular
Make appointments with yourself to reflect on your learning
Discuss your learning with others if thats helpful
Remember everyone has a different learning curve
Timing Action, feelings, results Learning Barriers/ obstacles Next steps Future action
Date What did you do? How did it feel? What was the outcome? What did you think? What did you learn? What barriers or challenges affected your learning? What further learning do you require? What will you do differently in the future?
21.10.23 Went through the professional Learning and Development brief, reading thoroughly what needs to be achieved and keys points I need to cover in order to achieve my best for this assignment. I though there is a lot to cover and I need to start working on it, as it feels I am already too late to start the assignment. I am working full time and I need to take out time to do my readings, as it is my decision to do masters. Its been very hard for me to catch up with everything in the start. I need take time out every day may be 1 hour or 2 hours in my study and do my readings provided by the university. Be more organised in future.
Content and format of the Professional Learning and Development Report
This assignment will focus on the development of a learning plan as part of your own professional self- development and learning in the context of your work as appropriate to your programme of study.
The assignment should include, but is not limited to:
1) Brief summary of the report (not exceeding 250 words, part of the word count!)2) A context section which outlines briefly what you are doing now, and where you want to go/ develop
3) A review of contemporary theoretical perspectives relevant to learning and development in a broad sense; making explicit reference to your learning on *this* module. This may be presented as a separate section within the assignment or integrated within other sections as appropriate.
4) A self-evaluation which needs to include two self assessments as a minimum such as:
a) A SWOT analysis of yourself as a practitioner in your professional area and identification of a core skill (or series of skills) that you want to develop during the course.
b) An analysis of your personal preferences (personality) and how this influenced your choice of action(s).
5) AProfessional Development Plan (PDP)that sets out in detail your approach to learning and explains how you decided on this approach. It should describe the action(s) required and the resources you will employ in achieving your desired outcome. The main body of the assignment must include a summary of this plan,the full plan needs to go in the appendix:
YourProfessional Development Plan (PDP)should include clear, challenging, specific goals and an analysis of how and when your progress can be assessed against them. These goals should include academic aspects of your study and professional development, leadership and interpersonal skills but also business knowledge and financial acumen
You are advised to take an analytical and critical view of your Professional Development Plan (PDP) rather than merely list a set of actions you will take.
Link to the self-evaluation activities that we complete throughout this module to provide evidence for the basis of your Personal Development Plan. This could include a reflection on your career plans (both generally and in relation to the HR profession), your personality and learning style and how these interact, and the link to your professional context (both current and aspired as appropriate)
You should include the following in the appendices(please remember that any appendices should be referenced in the main body of the report)
A copy of your full Professional Development Plan (PDP)
Evidence to support your personal evaluation (e.g. your personal development record, resultsfrom self-evaluation activities such as learning styles or career anchors)
Your learning log, or extracts from your learning diary in an appropriate form (use what is mostuseful to you).
Please ensure that you aim to meet the following, specific criteria for this assignment:
Appropriate writing style and structure using full academic citations in Harvard style
Use and integration of self-evaluation
Clear articulation of Professional Development Plan (PDP)
Utilisation and critique of the evidence base, so using an evidence-based approach to professionaldevelopment and learning
Reflections on your own learning and professional development
Key points to add
1 To add learning style 2-3 learning style
2 SWOT Analysis, whats its used for?
The difference between the professional development plan and your learning log are:
Your professional development plan is often shared with others
Your learning log is for you and no one else
There are some elements which mark good PDPs: clear and challenging goals, the relevance to you and your environment, a balance of goals, some ambition and stretch
There is no right or wrong for a learning log
Helps you to record, structure, think about and reflect upon your professional development
Helps you to record, structure, think about and reflect upon your personal learning
Contains a range of goals, always connected to work/ professional environment
About learning in general
Usually in table format
Can be in any form you like
Good questions to ask yourself:
Where do I want to go?
What is important to me?
How can I have balance in my professional life?
Which activities and goals are interdependent?
What are my priorities?
How do I want to progress?
What have I learned about myself, and how does this need to inform my PDP? Good questions to ask yourself:
What exactly have I learned?
Have I put any theory into practice?
How am I progressing (or not)?
How can I use this to plan for the future?
How can I use this to plan new learning?
What feels good, does not feel good?
Tips for success:
Stretch yourself coasting wont stimulate change
Keep a balance of goals across different areas of your development and learning, e.g. soft and hard skills
Prioritise: short, medium and long term
Recognise who you are and utilise your strengths, address development points
Remember this should be a work in progress, revise regularly
NAME: DATE OF REVIEW:
Objectives/ Goals Actions Resource Success Criteria Timeframe Implementation
What do I want/need to learn/achieve/ improve? What will I do to achieve this? What resources or support will I need? How will I recognise success? How will I review and measure improvement? Target dates for review and completion How will I apply and practise what I learn?
My long term goal is to progress in the field of HR I need to prepare for interviews and also start applying for HR roles. -Building my CV well.
-look into potential question and answers asked during interview.
Giving interviews for HR role and try to get a job in HR
To review and measure improvement I will ask for a feedback from a company when unsuccessful 12 March 2024 Making notes for potential interview question.
I will learn how to give answers during interviews.
