Personal Development Plan Skills Review
Strengths	Action	Review date	Progress Diary
1 Working in team: I have my strengths with working within a team I can listens to a bit of instructions and can also take control if know one else in the group stand up to take control.	I am going to work on listen to people more to get used to people giving out instructions. Target/goals 1.       I will go on to YouTube and look at videos to help my skill increase with working within a team. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4GUZspslY0 2.      I will try to get involved in more group activities to increase my strengths. 3.      I will become more sociable because it will increase your ability in a group when you are more comfortable around others. 4.       Talk to the other candidates and assessors between exercises to help keep yourself relaxed.	Medium term	I took action within working with a team. To do this I went on to the link on the action column. It helped me gain confidence to work within a team or group.
2 Web Development skills: I have strengths using web development software because last year I studied a class on it and received lot of relevant information.	I am going to start now on a more  complicated program and try new topics Target/goals ·         Complete the assignment to my best ability ·         Make sure to ask questions if I do not understand the task. ·         Listen to my teacher more carefully so I can understand the task ·         Go on to you tube and look up Web development skills http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4F5tY_6u70	Medium term	January, - 2013 –Ongoing I have not learned my more skills in creating a website as we did not cover that topic this year but I am still confident that I will be capable of doing it next year
3 Verbal Communication skills: I am very good at talking and putting my points across, I am good at getting up and talking in front of an audience.	I have a disadvantage which is when I am talking I get nervous and stutter. Target/goals ·         I could practice talking looking in a mirror to increase my skills. ·         To decrease the chance of stuttering in front of the audience you can take long breaths and relax. ·         You can also go on to YouTube and look at videos on it, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2_QaC_8nXk ·         You can improve your body language with eye contact head nodding and a good posture while talking.	Medium term	January, - 2013 – Ongoing I think although I was good at talking aloud I have still increased my confidence in speaking out in front of people. I have also taken action towards this skill from getting to know people in class to standing up and doing a PowerPoint.
Weaknesses	Action	Review date
1 Writing skills: my writing skills are very poor from spelling to even writing it is un-neat and tidy and also hard to read.	I am going to go to writing classes to increase my writing ability. Target/goals ·         I can increase my ability of my hand writing by slowing down and taking more care on my work. ·         I can also go to lessons to improve my handwriting ·         http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/english . ·         Clarify your thoughts and the purpose of your communication before you start writing. In business communications, clarity is more important than style.	Short term	January, - 2013 – Ongoing My writing skills are still very poor I could increase these skills by taking classes to increases my ability.

2 Organisational skills: My management skills are not good on my hard drive I keep losing work and then this leaves me being over the submission date.

I can improve on this by making my folders more understandable and create more so it is tidier and easier to navigate

Target/goals

·         I can improve on my management skills by making folders.

·         Naming the folders the by the correct name so there easier to find.

·         Store all work in the correct folders so it is a lot easier to find

·         Keep all the folders neat and tidy and make sure there is no un-named word in wrong folders etc

Medium term 

January, - 2013 – Ongoing

I think I have improved a lot now at this stage because I have all my folder in the correct place and I can easily find my work.Keep all the folders neat and tidy and make sure there is no un-named word in wrong folders etc

Time management: my time management skills aren’t the best because I keep for getting when to hand up work etc.

Target/goals

·         I can improve on this by doing my work as soon as I get the work

·         I can also get a diary and fill it in on the day I get it and then the day it has to be handed in.

·         I will create a to do list so I don’t forget to upload it.

·         I will set times in my evening to complete the work so I don’t fall behind.

Short term

January, - 2013 – Ongoing

I feel I have improved slightly but there is a lot more I could have done because I am still handing work up late. i could create a to do list to keep me on top of the work. i will set times and allocate them to my work in the evening.

Learning styles

A learning style is the method a person uses to learn. By knowing a student's learning style, a teacher can use teaching methods that maximize student learning. Students can use recognition of their individual learning styles to find what study methods, environment, and activities help them learn best.

The aural learning style is one of the most well-known learning styles. Many people learn this way. An aural learner soaks up information the easiest when it is presented in an auditory way. Speaking, listening and music all come naturally to the aural learner.

INTAKE

·         Attend classes

·         Attend discussions and tutorials

·         Discuss topics with others

·         Discuss topics with your teachers

·         Explain new ideas to other people

Visual - The people that rather visual learning like to learn by seeing the things such as charts and pictures, they also like when the things are colour coded so it is easier to read and follow

Seeing

Charts and pictures

Colour coding

Highlight

Aural – If people use the aural style learning this means they like to work and listen to the work such as using CD’s, Audio books there are a list of things down below. You can also find that when there are aural learners the listen to music while doing work and tap to the beat

Listening

Repetition

Discussion

Music

Tutorials

Audio books

CD’s

Verbal - Verbal learning uses styles such as written and spoken words, people that learn like this love to read and right, they also like trying to work out tongue twisters and rhymes.

Witten = spokes

Playing on meaning

Tongue twisters

Rhymes

Group work

Physical - Physical learning is when you are all hands on learning such as when looking at the parts of a computer they would rather have them in there hands instead on looking at them on paper, they also like sports and exercise, and when learning about something new you would rater jump straight in to it instead of reading instructions

Hands on

Flash cards

Diagrams

Like more physical classes

Computer systems

Logical - Logical learning is when you like doing everything in your head such as math problems instead of righting them out, they are very good at performing complex calculations they are also happy setting numerical targets and budgets, and you track your progress towards these.  

Think things out

Brain teasers

Take notes

 Math

Work thing out

Social - Social learning is for people that would rather learn in a group or in a class room or just working with one person, they also can get on with others, and are confident with getting up in front of people and talking

Good communications

Work with outers

Groups/ classes

Share thoughts

Opinions

Out spoken/talkers

Team workers

Solitary - Solitary learning is when you would rather do it on your own so you can focus on the task, you also may keep a journal or diary to keep track of you accomplishments, you like to make plans and set goals. You know your direction in life and work. You prefer to work for yourself, or have thought a lot about it. 

Independent

Private

Taking notes/journals/refer back

Not good talking

Quite with people

I got these results by going on to the website and completing the quiz, the web site is http://www.learning-styles-online.com/overview/ 

These  are the results I got when I completed the quiz as you can see I am more of a social and physical learner witch is right be cause I would rather work in a group and take things apart and rebuild them, I also like to play sports and do exercise. So the quiz was correct.

Knowing this does help me is some ways because when I am revising I would rather take my time and look at it physically and understand it.  

I find it a lot easier to study and learn when I know how to such as I would rather learn in a group and in a physical way this makes it easier to learn because you know where your strong points are so therefore you can work on them areas but you can also work on your weak points and improve on them.