Adult and Higher Education
Personal Development Planning
Personal Development Planning (PDP) is the help and support that Bolton Community College provides it's learners undertaking Higher Education provision take responsibility for their own learning.
We are able to help our students by:
- Helping them reflect on their progress,
- Identify ways of improving their performance and
- Plan how they can achieve their goals
- Using a framework of activities that will help students and tutors to work together to identify areas for development.
At Bolton Community College there are 3 main strands of PDP:
- Developing skills to support learning, personal development and employability
- Reflecting on current skills, areas for development, planning how to develop any necessary skills and assessing achievement
- Recording mechanisms (paper-based or online) to help develop a portfolio of evidence
The QAA minimum outcomes are that
- Students will have participated in PDP in a range of learning contexts at each stage or level of their programme;
- Demonstrated that they can access and use the aids and tools provided by the institution to help them reflect upon their own learning and achievements and to plan for their own personal, educational and career development;
- With support, created their own learning records containing information on the qualities and skills they can evidence which can be drawn upon when applying for a job or further study.
Further Information on Personal Development Planning can be found by clicking here.
