Personal development tools: focusing on education and career planning* to find your element
Welcome
which will focus on developing the OER side of pPlan, providing example goals/ plans, visualising these and SMART thinking...
What it does
This is a free to use prototype online web-application. It provides Personal development tools for personal exploration, reflection, planning and coaching. Providing the user/student a framework to record and develop plans to clarify their own ideas, and for Coaches or Mentors to offer targeted inline feedback. Although the tools can be used in a variety of ways it focuses on two areas: Education planning and Career planning . pPlan is a personal tool to aid decision making when developing your own strategies and is intended to support the eight Gatsby benchmarks of Good Career Guidance
In addition, Guides to accompany these tools are also being slowly developed along with information on shared Global goals & the goals of organisations to provide context to an individual's goals. See the System overview for how these fit together
Example: Summary view
Summarising your: values, interests, strengths, abilities, goals and depth of planning - creating a portrait for your reflection and sharing with others to get the conversation started.
Sometimes one conversation can change your
career path or (educational) plans...!
Note, this is the page with button to create new goals.
| Ways of using pPlan | |||
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| ❶ Open access (OER) | Goals tree (hierarchy) | ||
| Goal with Plans detailed view | Visual plans view | ||
| Goal listing views | Career & course planning Shared goals - ex. Global goals | ||
| Search/ short listings | |||
| Other open access views | User Summary view combining elements of pPlan sub-apps: A, B , D (see System overview) | ||
| ❷ Demo account | Sign-In with [suspended] |
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| ❸ SignUp | » SignIn to create your own goals, plans, record your interests, values, strengths.... | ||
Notes on support roles
The term support role SP is used to mean in no particular order or exclusively:
- Coach
- Mentor
- Teacher
- Tutor
- Counsellor
- Friend (peer)
- Sibling
- Parent
- Grand parent
- Aunt, Uncle
In other words people using pPlan as a tool to support other pPlan users. Below are the permission profiles which these support roles can be assigned
Click here to see more information on the permissions matrix
Built-in system coaches
For the full list of built-in system coaches please see the `age group` field in pPlan's
Sign Up form or see figure 10 below.
Below lists the first 3 pPlan system assigned (AgeGroup) coaches.
These have been arbitrarily* associated with
real people who have some publicly known connection
with human rights or environmental sustainability. This is to:
1) help remember these coach accounts
2) help understand how pPlan can be used i.e. users can share prof/social profile links (CV/portfolio) with coaches
| System Coaches | Associated real person | Image |
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Coach for age range:
I don't wish to declare
First name: pPlan-Coach-19-22 Volodymyr Last name: Zelenskyy |
(
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
) 1978-01-25 Ukraine 
Ukrainian democracy Link type: Twitter |
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Link type: Wikipedia entry
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Coach for age range:
Up to 10 years in age
First name: pPlan-Coach Last name: 10-lt |
(
Greta Thunberg
) 2003-01-03 Sweden 
School strike for climate Link type: Twitter |
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Link type: Wikipedia entry
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Coach for age range:
11-15
First name: pPlan-Coach Last name: 11-15 |
(
Vanessa Nakate
) 1996-11-15 Uganda 
Climate activism Link type: Twitter |
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Link type: Wikipedia entry
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Coach for age range:
16-19
First name: pPlan-Coach Last name: 16-19 |
(
Mahatma Gandhi
) 1869-10-02 India 
Indian independence movement Link type: Wikipedia entry |
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Age group ranges & built-in accounts
Includes the built-in user accounts for coaches & students| pPlan
(current age ranges & built-in user accounts...) |
Omnifolio
(age-range for comparison) |
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| User age range | Student accounts | Coach accounts | Coach associated real person | ||
| 0-10 | student-10-lt (A. Brown) | coach-10-lt | Greta Thunberg | School strike for climate | |
| 11-15 |
student-11-15
(curriculum exploration & time management) |
coach-11-15 | Vanessa Nakate | Climate activism | 16 or younger |
| 16-19 | student-16-19 (Job explorations) | coach-16-19 | Mahatma Gandhi | Indian independence movement | 17-18 years old |
| 20-39 | student-20-39 (Neurominority) | coach-20-39 | Ansel Adams | Group f/64 | |
| 19-22 N/A | Transferable (soft) skill development | coach-19-22 | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Ukrainian Democracy | 19-22 |
| 22-30 N/A | Self awareness (VISP Surveys...) | 22-30 | |||
| 31-40 N/A | 31-40 | ||||
| 40-59 | student-40-59 (M. Brown) | coach-40-59 | Bob Marley | Bob Marley and the Wailers | 41-50 |
| >=60 | student-60-gt (Well-being) | coach-60-gt | Rachel Carson | Nature writing | 51-60 |
| Do not wish to declare | student-demo (DNWTD ) | coach-DNWTD | Wangari Maathai | Green Belt Movement | Age: prefer not to say |
| Other built-in accounts | N/A | ||||
| pPlan coordinator (Owner of Goal tree hierarchy goals) | N/A | ||||
| United Nations (Global goals) | N/A | ||||
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This apps goal is that: your input and engagement with: A - E, along with feedback [ SP + AI ] supports achieving your goals and improves self-awareness Context / use-cases |
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| User account setup workflow: | |||
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1. Signup:
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2. verification:
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3. Setup includes:
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4. Get started:
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B
Questionnaires
(psychological instruments)
Personality test,
Character strengths +Inventories:
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A
Goal setting & planning tool
Set broad goals and 1 or many SMART action plans which can all receive inline feedback F |
C
Entries:
Personal journal, supporting information & analysis
D
Profile & external tools
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E
Guides (Course) to support your edu/career development
It references: global & organisation goals & curriculum links |
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V
Views:
Goal-with-plans,
Goal-pictures-view,
Summary,
Profile,
Dashboard Experimental views : Grid-Mapped planning... |
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| Requesting & Assigning me SuPport SP - support roles may include: coaches, family, mentors, teachers, friends, tutors | |||
| F Feedback from supporting roles on A B C D & any direct communication | |||
| Computer feedback based on statistical analysis & ML AI | |||
| Outcomes | |||
Dashboard & Profile pages
Example: Dashboard
- Where you can click to edit your goals or :
- put them in order (prioritise)
- archive when complete (or un-archive)
- If you are a coach/tutor/mentor you can access your coahees Summary and planning views...
- Request assignment of Coaches and/or Coachees
- ...
Example: User profile
From the profile page you can
- Update & add additional email addresses
- Add & update names
- Add your age range, organisation...
- Current educational stage/year etc.
See system overview D below for more info
What you should know
(What are the downsides?)- This is a prototype tool in a Beta testing phase
- All accounts are assigned a nominal system coach. This is based on the users age group (specified during SignUp) but since you don't have to specify your age group there is a coach those who don't wish to declare this. See the system overview for more information
- Anyone on the internet who can "Sign In" can use pPlan, but all personal information is private
by default!*
However, in pPlan users can request a Mentor or Mentee by providing their email address (point 4. above). If both parties provide emails that have been successfully authenticated by the tool, then the following procedure will be followed by myself (Jago Brown) as the coordinating mentor: -
Process for assigning a support role (currently):
- Direct contact by email will be made requesting details for phone or face-to-face discussion (multi-factor authentication)
- Proof Mentee is older than 11 years of age or that the mentor is a parent/grandparent will be checked.
- Mentor suitability and safeguarding checks including DBS/CRB checks where applicable
- If there are judged to be no safeguarding issues the assignment can take place, however due the the manual nature of this process it may not happen immediately
- In reality this is only Beta testing of a prototype and if the mentee is under 18 years of age then only parents, grandparents or certified professionals will be granted Mentor permissions to protect mentees against over disclosure
- * After a Mentor is assigned they can view the mentee's Profile page
- Please see the road-map for dates that this prototype will be monitored and maintained. After this the prototype intends to remain online (but not monitored) for up to approximately 2 years
- Your data will not be shared with any commercial parties
- Data communications between the server and your browser are encrypted
- Please read the Privacy Notice (link in page footer)
- Questions to evaluate this prototype tool are in the survey and more formation is available on the "About" page
Key words
For end-users
My: ...
personal development
personal development planning PDP
Planning board
educational planning *
career planning
career development
life-wide learning life-long learning
mentoring coaching
Supports and develops my: ...
self-evaluation critical thinking
Reflective thinking and writing
Concept
mapping
Higher-order
thinking
Strategic
planning
Scenario
planning
decision-making
motivation
Defining my core values
world view
self-determination
metacognition
For other stakeholders
system providers, mentors, parents, teachers and system developers)
learning technology educational technology
information systems
personalisation personalised learning
Education for the unknown
Widening participation
Correcting false assumptions
Human
resources
Optimising
human capital
Careers services
employability
curriculum development:
student choices or Student-Led, Individually-Created
Courses or learning path