How to Build and Utilize Your Personal Learning Plan

1. Purpose: The purpose of a personal learning plan is to identify your strengths, weaknesses, skills, aspirations, interests, goals, learning styles, needs, and more, and use this understanding about yourself to guide learning experiences over the course of your senior year.
2. Learn About Yourself: Go through the slides in order. The first 10 slides were designed to help your instructor learn about you and to help YOU recognize and articulate what you need to ensure a successful year. You and your instructor will take these things into consideration when developing your personal learning plan together.
3. Goals: Slides 14-17 are designated for goal setting. You will write personal and academic goals in relation to your senior year, postsecondary education, careers, skills.
4. Personal Learning Plan: Slide 18 is your personal learning plan, an editable slide where you can add or remove learning criteria, expectations, or plans that reflect YOUR learning goals for the year. You will add a list of activities, learning experiences, tasks, etc. to meet your written goals, review them periodically, and make adjustments as needed.
5. Learning Outcomes: The last three slides summarize session outcomes. The last slide is reserved for your instructor to summarize your accomplishments, milestones, challenges, recommendations for future projects, etc.

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01 Cover Page

02 Table of Contents

03 About Me

04 My Interests

05-09 Learning and

Personality Surveys

10 I Want You to Know

11-14 Goals

15-17 Personal Learning Plan

18 End of Session Reflection

19-21 Session Outcomes

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Add photographs to this page that represent you - hobbies, your family, your background, interests, your favorite books, inspiring people in your life, etc.

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[A driving question is a great starting off point for a project-based learning experience. Type a list of questions you have about life, nature, art, history, etc. ANYTHING. What do you wonder?]

[Topics of interest can also be turned into self-directed PBL projects. Type a list of topics that interest you. Ex: Climate change, Hamilton, jazz music, pop art, Antarctica, your home town’s history, etc.]

The purpose of this slide is to help you identify your interests, questions, and what you would like to learn more about to better help you make goals for the year.

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1. What are your top three hobbies?

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2. What is one community issue that is important to you?

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3. What do you love to do when you are not in school?

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4. If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go and why?

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5. If you could go on any field trip in your community, where would you want to go?

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6. If you could have dinner with any person, dead or alive, who would it be?

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7. What is one skill you wish you had? In other words, what is one thing you wish you knew how to do?

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8. What is your favorite book genre? Music genre? Movie genre?

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Take a survey that looks at your optimal learning style. When you have completed the survey, write your results in the space below and reflect on your results. Use this information to help plan learning experiences this session. Click here for one learning style survey option.

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Take a survey that looks at Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Take the survey by clicking the link below. When you have completed the survey, write your results in the space below and reflect on your results.

Click here for one multiple intelligences survey option.

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Take a survey that looks at your personality profile. Take the survey by clicking the link below. When you have completed the survey, write your results in the space below and reflect on your results.

Click here for a Myers Briggs personality survey option.

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Take a survey that looks at your career personality. When you have completed the survey, write your results in the space below and reflect on your results.

Career Aptitude Survey and Career Cluster Survey

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What is important for your instructor to know about you so as to improve your chances of success?

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Write your goals for your senior year. If you are a junior, that is okay!

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Think about what you would like to accomplish on a personal and academic level this year.

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You will revisit these goals often to gauge progress and make adjustments.

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Write your goals for postsecondary education. Is your goal to get into a four year program? To earn a certification or license? Add goals that will help you get there.

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An academic goal might be to gain volunteer experience to put on your college application. An example of a personal goal is to get an after school job to help pay for tuition.

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Write your career goals here. What do you need to do to reach your career goals?

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Write your 21st-century skills goals here. 21st-century skills are soft skills that help you succeed in the 21st-century workplace.

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Examples include problem-solving, communication, critical thinking, networking, team work, etc.

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Which goals will you focus on this session and how will you meet those goals? Focus on three goals at a time. Look back over slides 14-17 for a reminder of your goals.

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Make a senior learning plan for the session using this template. Your learning plan will evolve and can be adjusted as you revisit it throughout the session.

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How will your instructor partner with you and support you to meet your session goals? Discuss with your instructor how they can be your ally throughout the process.

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What are three ways that I will take personal responsibility for my own learning and goals this session?

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LEARNING PLAN: List out learning experiences, project ideas, and/or tasks that need to be completed to accomplish your goals and build 21st-century skills.

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Review your personal learning plan at least once per week, and check in on your progress using the following questions. Make adjustments to your personal learning plan as needed.

3.Identify what you believe is preventing you from progressing with the goal or learning target?

1. What parts of your personal learning plan are going well? Which of your strengths have contributed to those successes?

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5. In what way(s) can your instructor partner with you to help meet the goal or learning target?

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2. What is one goal on your personal learning plan that you are struggling with?

4. What is one specific action you can take to get over the obstacle that is preventing you from success? Think about incorporating the strength(s) that you noted in question 1.

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*Reflect on this session by answering the questions below:

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1. What went well? What successes did you see?

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• What obstacles did you face? How did you overcome those obstacles?

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• What is the most interesting thing that you learned this session?

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• In what areas, academically and/or personally did you see a significant amount of growth? Ex: Content knowledge, problem-solving skills, communication, etc.

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• In which areas of your academic and/or personal life could you continue to improve? Moving forward, what actions could you take to do so?

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Use this space to write about the goals that you accomplished and how you were able to accomplish them.

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