Academic Skills and PDP

Academic skills and PDP

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
1. Personal and Professional Development..................................................................................3
2. Short term Goals......................................................................................................................3
3. Medium Term Goals................................................................................................................4
4. Value of long term goals..........................................................................................................5
5. Value of Personal Development Plan......................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Personal development involves set of activities that person uses to enhance their skills
and qualities while considering individuals aims and goals in life. It helps in developing talents
and potentials, facilitate employability, improves quality of life and contributes to know the
dreams and aspirations. This report is prepared in the context of understanding the concept of
personal and professional development, value of short term, medium term and long term goals
along with the value of Personal Development Plan with the structure of it.
1. Personal and Professional Development
Personal and Professional Development of single person help in organization growth.
Self-managed learning helps in both personal and professional development. Self-managed
learning is referring personal learning abilities (Sala, and Gobet, 2017). Personal development is
and activity that improve awareness and identify talent and passion of a person and help them to
achieve their goal. Professional development is also linked with personal development but in
professional development person is focused on organization growth and development. It is also
effected by person’s behaviour and skills. In academics personal and professional development
both are important and play major role, both student and teacher personal development is
necessary for professional or overall academic development. Professional development includes
personal development and performance evaluation of academics or organizations. It also
provides support to student and teachers for competence and performance. Professional
development link students’ academic performance and school improvement plans. Provides
trainings and development direction to teachers for development of school. In academics
personal and professional development are depending on various things such as data driven
planning, instructional delivery, assessment, learning environment, communication, student
achievement and academic progress and professionalism etc. (Kroll, and Dussias, 2017)