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Students taking conscious control of their own growth in skills and maturity during their time at university, so that they can take action to make university work for them in the ways they want it to.

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PDP is the process through which anyone can reflect on the path they want to follow personally and professionally, and on the actions they need to undertake to get there.

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The key to PDP is encouraging student reflection on their strengths weaknesses and how to make best use of the opportunities provided by the University to develop their transferrable skills. Hopefully it will eventually lead to students who are confident in judging the standard of their own work, rather than being overly dependent on academic opinion. My experience so far has been more positive with first year students than with those in later years, but it is still early days and will take a few years to become embedded in student and academic expectations.

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PDP is the planning of ones personal development (personal as well as career) based on a process of reflection. In other words, where you are, where you would like to be and how you are going to get there! 

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PDP is the planning of ones personal development (personal as well as career) based on a process of reflection. In other words, where you are, where you would like to be and how you are going to get there! 

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This is the process that enables anybody to reflect and take stock on their current skills and achievements and plan their future. It's a little bit like knowing where you are on a map and deciding where you want to go and what resources you require for your journey.

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For an authoritative definition, I'm going to reference the UK’s Quality Assurance Agency, which monitors standards and makes recommendations on good practice in universities, which defines it as: ‘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.’

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How can we best support students in getting started with PDP? Despite discussions about the benefits and a demonstration of what it could look like, my students are still not engaging with it.

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How can we best support students in getting started with PDP? Despite discussions about the benefits and a demonstration of what it could look like, my students are still not engaging with it.

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Initially I felt some resistance to the idea of PDP, as if it were another box-ticking exercise, or another hoop to jump through. What about those students who don't have a clear career path yet - will they be made to feel like failures? Having watched the videos though, I feel that the PDP actually can have the potential to reflect the diversity of our students and evolve as they mature and develop. :-)

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Personal Development Planning: a process of setting individual aims and objectives linked to a fixed time period (e.g. related to progression between experience grades), and fulfilling and reflecting on those aims to achieve expected or desired career development.

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A cyclic process that uses reflection to identify strengths and development needs to encourage people to plan for their future career (if done well!).

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There is link to PDP in the top right hand corner of the Blackboard home page.

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blackboard homepage pdp link highlighted

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Post your response by double clicking on the screen. If you are unsure  about how to define PDP, you could take a look at some of the resources on the PDP tab on Blackboard (you will need to sign in using your UoB username and password).