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Personal Learning Plan

A personal learning plan helps individuals identify their short- and long-term learning goals by outlining the resources and strategies needed to achieve those goals. The plan identifies learning objectives, strategies to meet the objectives, and ways to document achievement. Creating a personal learning plan involves assessing learning needs, selecting relevant learning activities, and determining how to evidence learning progress through a portfolio. Following these steps allows individuals to focus their learning and make the most of opportunities.

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Personal Learning Plan

A personal learning plan helps individuals identify their short- and long-term learning goals by outlining the resources and strategies needed to achieve those goals. The plan identifies learning objectives, strategies to meet the objectives, and ways to document achievement. Creating a personal learning plan involves assessing learning needs, selecting relevant learning activities, and determining how to evidence learning progress through a portfolio. Following these steps allows individuals to focus their learning and make the most of opportunities.

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Developing a Personal Learning Plan (PLP)

What is a personal learning plan?

A personal learning plan can help you identify your short- and long-term learning goals
and the resources and strategies needed for you to achieve those goals. A PLP can help
you focus on what is important to you in continuing your learning.

It identifies the learning outcomes/objectives you wish to achieve, strategy to meet


these objectives, and ways you can document of this achievement. A PLP should be
initiated by you, but you can always seek help from others who can give you input on
your goals. A PLP will benefit you by:

• Making the most of the learning you already do on a regular basis.


• Improving your teaching by focusing your learning where it is most needed.
• Clarifying opportunities for the acquisition and assessment of knowledge & skills.

If needed, a PLP can also benefit you by:


• Helping you prepare for assessment through preparation of a portfolio of your
learning.

Three steps to drafting a personal learning plan:

1. Learning Needs
What are your career or learning goals?
What are your learning strengths and weaknesses?
What are deficiencies in your learning that you would like to address, including
specific knowledge and skills you would like to acquire?

2. Learning Activities
What are the best ways you learn?
What learning activities will meet your learning needs?
What help will you need?
How long (time) will it take?

3. Evidence of Learning
What will you put into your portfolio (or blog or journal) to demonstrate your
learning progress and achievements?

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Step-by-Step Guide:

1. Learning Needs

• What are your career or learning goals?


• What are your learning strengths and weaknesses?
• What are deficiencies in your learning that you would like to address, including
specific knowledge and skills you would like to acquire?

REMEMBER:
• Build on any previous learning & personal development plans.
• Focus on the skills you have identified.
• Think about all aspects of your work.
• Include things which will raise your confidence and self-esteem.

ASK YOURSELF:
• Is there any need outstanding from recent events?
• What needs do I have arising from instances when my work has seemed difficult
or less satisfactory?
• What do I need to learn about to feel confident and fulfilled?

Make a note of your most important learning needs, then proceed to step two.

2. Learning Activities

• What are the best ways you learn?


• What learning activities will meet your learning needs?
• What help will you need?
• How long (time) will it take?

REMEMBER:
• Build on past experiences and consider a wide range of activities.
• Pick the most appropriate activity for each need.
• Include activities you are already doing regularly.
• Be realistic about the time each activity will take and the help you will need.

ASK YOURSELF:
• How have I learned best in the past? Can I use methods which have worked well
before?
• What learning methods and activities are readily available to me?
• Is the activity I have chosen appropriate?
• How can activities I am already involved in, and wish to continue with, be
incorporated into my personal learning plan?
• What help will I need and who will provide it?

Make a note of your chosen learning activities and number of hours you think each will
take, then proceed to step 3.
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3. Evidence of Learning - What will you put into your portfolio to demonstrate your
learning progress and achievements?

REMEMBER:
• Think about your learning and how you will do things differently in future.
• Share some of the things you have learned with your colleagues.
• Look for ways that your learning has actually benefited your students.
• Organize the evidence you collect in a way so that it can be shared.

ASK YOURSELF:
• How will I show that I have benefited from my learning?
• How will I show that my students have benefited?
• How will I show that my peers/colleagues have benefited from my learning?

Make a note of your ideas about what evidence to collect. Now arrange a meeting with a
mentor to discuss your plan in order to put it into action.

Based on work by the CoBaTriCE Collaboration (Competency Based Training Programme in Intensive Care Medicine
for Europe) and used with permission.
http://www.cobatrice.org/Data/upload/images/File/Assessment/Trainees%20guide%20to%20personal%20learni
ng%20plans.pdf

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