Lecture+6+ +self+managed+learning+(part+b)

A Personal Development Journal (PDJ) is a structured approach to recording your experience, providing you with the datadata which will enable you:



To bring your experience into your conscious awareness, opening you the possibility of different and more intentional behaviorspossibility of different and more intentional behaviors



To reflect on and analyze your behaviors and their outcomes, enabling you to learn consciously and intentionally from your experience, maximizing your learning opportunities

Lecture 6 Self Managed Learning

(Part B)

4 A Personal Development Journal (PDJ)

4.1 What is a ‘PDJ’?

A ‘journal’ is a book (or note pad, or whatever)

in which you regularly record your

in which you regularly record your

experiences and actions, events and

interactions in which you have participated and your reflections on them

.

4 A Personal Development Journal (PDJ)

4.1 What is a ‘PDJ’? – Cont’d…

A PDJ is a structured approach to recording your experience, providing

you with the data which will enable you:

To bring your experience into your conscious awareness, opening you the

possibility of different and more intentional behaviors

To reflect on and analyze your behaviors and their outcomes, enabling you to learn consciously and intentionally from your experience, maximizing your

learning opportunities

To monitor and track your development

4 A Personal Development Journal (PDJ)

4.2 What is a ‘PDJ’? – Cont’d…

A PDJ takes the form of a notebook, loose leaf folder, computerized file or

whatever you prefer However, it is intended to be more than a diary of

occasional, miscellaneous jottings: it required a coherent structure.

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What

Happened

• A brief description of events, with the emphasis on objective facts, and including what led up to the situation

My

Emotions

• Be specific about the emotions you experienced during the events eg: anger, irritation, fear, anxiety, happiness, satisfactions, sadness – and how they changed during the event

My

Thoughts/

Ideas

• What was going through your head during the events

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My Action

Tendencies

• What you usually do in similar circumstances What you ‘wanted’ to do What other factors influenced your action or non-action

My Behavior

• What you actually said and did, and how: verbal and non-verbal behaviours

Implications

for my

development

• What you can learn from analyzing the event, and how you might change your behavior for the future