Module Overview

Students will generate information regarding options for undergraduate study. Critically this module allows students to reflect on their learning styles and develop new skills and strategies that build on these styles and create more effective learners

What is Personal Development Plan? Its uses, features and components

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Composing a Vision and Mission Statement

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Hearing the experience of former students in setting and achieving goals

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Goal Setting – principles and objectives

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Planning for the unplanned - contingencies

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Time Management for goal achievement

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Developing methods to measure the attainment of goals

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Monitoring and evaluation of personal development plans – the planning and project cycle

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Hearing the experience from industry in creating, monitoring and evaluating plans

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Costing a plan – putting a value on your future and making the right investment

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Using Action Research methodologies to improve planning

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Revising Personal Development Plans and producing a final document

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The module will be used to support Access Foundation students to plan for their academic and employment futures. It will also give students the skills to incorporate their learning into a Learning Development Plan. This plan will be produced week by week so that students are incorporating their learning into a final document, which they can use in the future. The module is delivered through a mixture of lectures, group work and seminars with guest speakers, workshops and production of a Personal Development Plan.

Module Content & Assessment
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Other Assessment(s)	100