Embedding Personal Development Planning (PDP) in the GEES Curricula
Tuesday 23rd March 2004, School of Geography, University of Leeds
An LTSN-GEES workshop in association with the School of Geography, University of Leeds
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What is the event about?
Personal Development Planning (PDP) becomes compulsory in 2005 for all courses in UK Higher Education. Many academics and students in GEES departments have been working with PDP for some time. The conference therefore aims to enhance the quality of PDP in GEES courses, to strengthen embedding in the curricula and thereby to improve the learning experience of GEES students, and their preparation for the graduate labour market.
This conference provides a unique opportunity for practitioners from GEES departments to collaborate and network on these issues. So, if you have ever wondered how other disciplines and departments are dealing with the PDP agenda, this is your chance to learn from their experiences - or to present and showcase your own! The workshop will be interactive allowing GEES colleagues to work with new PDP materials for use in their own departments. Specifically, the event aims to:
- introduce GEES colleagues to a range of PDP resources;
- raise students expectations of the value of PDP;
- give GEES colleagues an opportunity to locate and/or showcase PDP materials in their own curricula;
- highlight the connections between PDP, business and employability;
- raise motivation for PDP amongst staff and students in GEES disciplines.
Programme
10:00-10:30 Registration and Coffee
10:30-10:35 Welcome and Introductions
(Dr Sharon Gedye, LTSN-GEES)
10:35-12:30 Keynote and interactive session: Working
with GEES students on PDPs from businesses and professional organisations
(PowerPoint file size 325 KB)
(Dr Pauline Kneale, School of Geography, University of Leeds)
12:30-1:15 Lunch
1:15-1:45 Running PDP as a module
(PowerPoint file size 138 KB)
(Paul Jackson, Careers Service, University of Leeds )
1:45-2.15 Towards a Student led
PDP (PowerPoint file size 183 KB)
(Dr Nigel Richardson, Natural, Geographical and Applied Sciences, Edge Hill
College of HE)
2:15-2:45 Action planning: using business PDP with your
students
(Employer led session in conjunction with Dr Pauline Kneale, School of Geography,
University of Leeds)
2:45-3:15 What is it that makes PDP effective? What works?!
- Tutorials, Key Skills and PDP: an integrated approach
(PowerPoint file size 365 KB)
(Mark Feltham, Biological & Earth Science, Liverpool John Moores) - From Paper Based to Web/Paper hybrid: When to use technology and when
not to
(Martin Pill, Environmental & Interdisciplinary Studies, University of the West of England) - BSc (Hons) Physical Geography - using PDP to market
the award (PowerPoint file size 5.5 MB)
(Simon Jones, School of Applied Sciences, University of Glamorgan)
3:45-4:00 Plenary: Where next?
(Chair: Brian Chalkley, LTSN-GEES)