Personal Development Plan

Personal Development Plan

Name: Lauren Sorsby                                           Date:    17/09/10

Job Aspiration: Secondary School IT Teacher

Academic Qualifications

Qualifications	Hope to Achieve	Target Date
BTEC National IT Practitioners	Distinction	End of Course
Honors degree
Post Graduate Teaching degree

Notes:

Skills and attributes (score: 1 = no skill, 5 = fully developed)

Skill	Score	Development activity	Target date
Team Working	3	Interact more with group. Contribute more. Learn the names of everyone in the class to help interaction.	22/12/10
Speaking in front of group	2	Improve confidence by answering or asking a question when I know the answer or don’t understand	22/12/10
Time management	3	Get a diary to write in when assignments are due to make sure they are handed in on time.	22/12/10
Report writing	3	Practice writing assignments so that my organization and grammar skills develop so that I can achieve distinctions.	Before Christmas
Motivation	2	Find new ways to motivate myself into putting 100% effort into all my work and assignments.	All year

PDP – GROUP WORK SKILLS

Today I worked in a group to create a communication methods timeline. Every member of the group, me, Tom and Sophie contributed equally :)

WHAT YOU COMMUNICATE	WHO?	HOW YOU COMMUNICATE	WHY YOU USE THAT METHOD
Words	Friends, family, dog, tutors	Speaking	Easy everyone who I speak to speaks and understands, except the dog
Text	Friends, family	Text	Don’t like speaking on phones, quick and simple,
Chat, text	Friends	Facebook	Simple, easy, quick
Information	Tutors, online shops	Email	Online receipts, help with work, information