A Personal Development Plan is as follows:

A structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and/or achievement and to plan for their personal, educational and career development.

(The Higher Education Academy)

Plan

Produce a personal development plan (P7)

Stats	Target	Timescale

Strength
Technological	Programming Language	1 Year
Artistic	Get a B or more at AS-Level	7 Months
Smarticles	More than 90% in a test	2 Months
Helper	Volunteer	4 Months
Organiser	Remember what to do each day	2 Months
Leader	Take a role of a group	7 Months
Confident	More involved	6 Months
Reasonability	Be more responsible	4 Months
Trustworthy	More trust	4 Months

Weakness
Shading	Do a tonal drawing	1 Month
Socialising	BIGGER audience	4 Years
Too Independent	Ask someone for help or advice	4 Months

Ambition
Web Designer	Make a Website (HTML, CSS)	1 Year
Game Designer	Make a simple flash game or a mod	2 Years

Diary

Follow a personal development plan (P8)

Date	Description	Review
September 30th 2013	Prefect: I have volunteered for the position Prefect! This will help me achieve the target ‘Helper’ in my PDP.	Just got news that I have been accepted to be a prefect. Success!
October 3rd 2013	Prefect: My first duty as a Prefect.	I caught a couple of naughty people! The first duty was not so bad.
November 22nd 2013	Senior House Leader: I have volunteered for the position Senior House Leader! This will help me achieve the target ‘Responsibility’ in my PDP.	I have been accepted to be a senior house leader. Time to do a good job!
December 17th 2013	Senior House Leader: I went around Curie forms to introduce myself. This will help achieve the target ‘Confident’ in my PDP.	I would probably say this was the top scary times. But at the end of it, I think I could go back and do it again since I know the people now.
January 7th 2014	Senior House Leader: I was a part of the house assembly. This goes towards the target ‘Organiser’ in my PDP.	I did not really do much, it was more of a ‘be there’ than a talk.
January 9th 2014	Senior House Leader: Continuing the journey of volunteering, I had my first meeting with the representatives.	The meeting was a chance to get to know the representatives.
January 10th 2014	Senior Prefect: I have been offered the chance to be promoted to Senior Prefect and have already made an application. This will help me achieve my target ‘Leader’ in my PDP.	I have been accepted and now take on new roles starting February (3rd)!
January 30th 2014	Senior Prefect: First senior prefect meeting, talking about what is going well and what to improve on.	I was worked well as a team in this meeting and gave lots of useful suggestions to the group.
February 6th 2014	Senior House Leader: This was my first senate meeting with all the house of representatives together from all houses. This helps me achieve the target ‘Leader’ in my PDP.	Interesting suggestions were given from both sides of for and against. Hopefully we get more information in the next senate meeting about the outcome.
February 9th 2014	Artistic: Did a tonal study of Katniss Everdeen for my coursework and also towards my target ‘Artistic’ in my PDP.	Probably one of my successful pieces I have ever did, it was to a professional quality and am very pleased.
February 12th 2014	Maths: Scored 39/40 in the Data test which goes towards the achievement ‘Smarticles’.	Never thought I would get soo close to 100%!
March 10th 2014 - April 18th 2014	Timebridge: I helped decorate Timebridge. This goes towards the ‘Helper’ target in my PDP.	Turned out quite nice! Let’s hope people can appreciate it when it opens up to the students!
April 14th 2014 - April 16th 2014	Artistic: I have used an artistic technique called mono-printing to create three well made women to incorporate into my final idea. This will go towards my target to be ‘Artistic’.	It turned out better than expected and I would say a huge success, I think my final idea is going to be the best one yet.
April 24th 2014	Artistic: I have been practicing my Photoshop skills and have made a beautiful woman using the pen tool.	This will look amazing on my final piece next month.

Improvements and Review

Review progress on a personal development plan, identifying areas for improvement (D2)

Areas for Improvement

Programming Language

I stated previously that I wanted to learn programming language. I had a little go at programming a mod for Minecraft to see how it turns out and if I would like programming in the long run. It was quite fun creating something using words; I find it fascinating that you can change an entire game to a whole different experience or make a completely new game using Java!

This also goes towards my ambition of becoming a game designer stated in my personal development plan.

Here are the steps taken to make a working mod in Minecraft using a programming language called Java:

Artistic

I stated in my personal development plan that I wanted to get at least a B in AS. To get to this target, I needed to work hard and continue drawing and developing new ideas for my final piece. The improvements I need to take was to be more organised. If I was set a homework to be done for next week, I would need to try and get it done beforehand as leaving an art work to be done the night before is a huge workload to carry.

Results day has approached and I can happily say that I did achieve my goal and I have gotten a B at AS. I was pleased with myself as I have worked very hard this year and spent a lot of time filling up my art book with wondrous drawings.

Web Designer

I stated in my personal development plan that I wanted to make a website. To get to this target, I must learn the basics of HTML and CSS so I can make my website look good and function well. Luckily, I am going to be doing Unit 28 which is a web production unit in which I will be able to create a website. This means that what I am doing now will go towards what I will be doing for unit 28. To get started, I read a tutorial online and learned what most of the tags do in HTML and CSS and I am ready to make a website.

I have finally finished the website and here is the final outcome:

This looks like a really good website and I am happy with the outcome.

Review Progress

By doing a personal development plan, I realise my strengths and weaknesses. Setting these targets helped me to plan ahead of time and to make realistic deadlines. I have learnt and achieved several things during this time period and wish to do something like this again.

The first thing I did was to identify an area of improvement, which was programming language. I learned and practised programming which made it clearer to me of what I want to do in the future as I enjoyed programming a small mod for Minecraft. Not only this, but this made it easier for me to discuss my skills with other people which enabled me to boost my confidence. The second thing I did that needed improvement was working towards getting a B at AS level in Art Graphics. After getting a B at results day, it made me realise that all of the work I put into it paid off and I could not have asked for more. Lastly, I also made an improvement in working towards being a web designer. I concentrated and learned a lot about HTML and CSS which resulted me in making a website which contributed to unit 28 and I was happy with how it turned out.

In summary, I have successfully achieved most of my targets in the personal development plan and I also made improvements to further improve myself. I also made a mod for Minecraft in which I would not have made without making a personal development plan. This has shown me that if I work towards a goal, then I can achieve it as long as I keep working for it.