Dear Peter
I am involved in a similar task to your own except our planning phase was
four years ago and we are now into the third year of a four year undergrad B
Ed (Hons). I have based our work on the transferable or core skills (values
and dispositions!) obtained through the experience of Higher Education. I
too follow your progression  towards employment/employability - for us in
Year 4 that we are designing at this time.


There is an introduction, 4 sections on different aspects of student
learning and a section in each for students to enter their own reflections.
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I would value your response. In our case, we have made the PDP belongs to
the student who may choose to use part/all of it as a focus for discussion
with relevant members of staff but has overall charge of the contents and
the use made of them. It is not assessed as we feel as soon as their is an
intended audience, it loses its honesty. Also we assess sufficiently (if not
too much!!!) and that is represented in the Transcript.     So why add to
that aspect of our impact on the students  and detract from its value to the
student in both ongoing reflection of growth and development and selected
use for other audiences?

Liz Cullen
Senior University Teacher
University of Glasgow


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From: "Peter John Lumsden" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 4:10 PM
Subject: Re: PDP-UK Issue 2 - upgrade


> Thanks for this Rob - I'm attaching something which may be of interest -
> and might even be somehting whcich I could buil don for your next
> newsletter. It's a view of PDP, and 'designing this in', from the
> viewpoint of an academic who is overseeing re-design of a curriculum.
> What I'e attached is part of a document circulate dto staff engaged in
> rationalising course provision, and encouraging them to think about PDP
> and Learning strategies at the same time as thinking of module titles
> and content.
>
> What I thin we have is a practical system, which generates real
> evidence by the student. One remaining uncertainty is whether the
> resulting 'progress' file should be submitted for formal assessment.
> Wonder if there are strong feelings from those who've gone that far??
>
> regards
>
> peter Lumsden
>
> Dr Peter Lumsden
>
> Faculty of Science Teaching and
> Learning Coordinator
>
> Department of Environmental Management
> University of Central Lancashire
> Preston
> PR1 2HE
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> >>> [log in to unmask] 18/02/2005 13:45:42 >>>
> Dear Colleagues
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>
>
> Following the circulation of PDP-UK issue 2 we've now been able to add
> considerably to the contribution from Helen Richardson, and an updated
> version of this is therefore appended.
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> My best wishes
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>
> Rob
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