Working with Students to Create our Peer and Community Personal Development Planning

Programme

Declan Bryans and Andrew Glen

Dr Avril Thomson, Dr Linda Thomson and Dr Debbie Willison

• Introduction and background

• Presentation from this year’s student intern project team

• Activity and discussion session

Agenda

• 2009 – Report of Academic Counselling and Personal Development

Planning

• Feb/Mar 2010– Senate Working Group on Academic Counselling and Personal

Development Planning

• Sept 2010– Framework of minimum requirements and use of the term

Personal Development Advising “Senate resolved to approve its introduction from 2010-11.”

Background

• 1st year: – 3 meetings – settling in, reflect on performance and

preparation for moving on

• 2nd and 3rd years: – 2 meetings per year – reflect on previous year’s

performance and reflect on this year’s performance

• 4th/Final year: – 1 meeting – developmental feedback/readiness for

exams/transition out

Framework

• First group of summer student interns:– Taufik Marlik, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME) – Dorothea Bouck-Standen, NAME – Laura Hay, Design Manufacture and Engineering Management

(DMEM) – Stewart Steele, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) – Vicky Hamilton, DMEM

• Outcome – The Tight-Loose Model

• 2011/2012 - Pilot in DMEM, MAE, NAME and Pure & Applied Chemistry (PAC)

2011

• Summer 2012 - Second student intern project– Wei Ren Adams, MAE– Yeugeuiya Manchul, NAME– Catriona Provan, DMEM– Kasim Qureshi, PAC

• Outcome – online development

• 2012/2013 - Pilot in Chemistry, DMEM, MAE, NAME and Strathclyde Business School

2012

• Summer 2013 – Third student intern project– Declan Bryans, PAC– Andrew Glen, History– Peter McLoughlin, Marketing– Robbie Stewart, MAE

• All four faculties represented

• Aim: to ensure resources are appropriate for all faculties and departments

2013

Personal Development Planning 2013

• Developing University wide resources through staff-student partnerships

• Increasing PDP awareness through staff collaboration

• Increasing engagement through external partnerships

Aims & Objectives

• Flexible PDP scheme• MyPlace class - PDP hub• Handbooks – PDP guide

Resource Development

• Communication between schools, departments & faculties

• Best Practise – building on success, lessons learned

• A PDP Network has now been established

Staff Collaboration

• Alumni survey

• Promotional Videos

• Alumni forums

Partnerships

• Staff

• Students

• Interns

Conclusion – the benefits to…

Activity and Discussion

Action Planning & Reviewing

SpecificMeasurableAchievable RealisticTime-bound

SituationTaskAction Result

Goal settingReflection

• What are the challenges in adopting and developing a University-wide PDP scheme?

• How best to increase student engagement?• How best to increase staff engagement?• How would be best to maintain the ‘students

as partners’ approach between intern projects?

• Should PDP be compulsory? • Should PDP be credit bearing or not?

Discussion Session

• Student interns: Wei Ren Adams, Declan Bryans, Dorothea Bouck-Standen, Andrew Glen, Vicky Hamilton, Laura Hay, Yeugeuiya Manchul, Taufik Marlik, Peter McLoughlin, Catriona Provan, Kasim Qureshi, Stewart Steele and Robbie Stewart

• Debbie Willison, Avril Thomson, and Lizann Bonner Helyn Thornbury Gould

• LTE and other professional services• University of Strathclyde’s Education Excellence

Fund

Acknowledgements