What does a learning plan look like?
Learning plans may be for individuals or groups. They are based on initial and on-going assessment, agreed learning objectives both personal and collective. They are the basis for reviewing and recording achievements both planned and unanticipated.
There is no hard and fast rule about what a learning plan should look like. Your organisation may have a template for consistency or you may be able to design one yourself.
- Use whatever is fit for your purpose and works best for the learner.
- Experiment and be adventurous.
- Think about how you can maintain them in different teaching environments - for example in outdoor programmes.
- Consider making learning plans in a format or with imagery that reflects the course content.
- Consider maintaining the plans electronically.
What you need is a format that works for you and your learners.
Some examples to see how other tutors have used their imagination.
A creative writing tutor teaches learners to plan their writing using mind maps, so they write their learning plans in this form. Mind Map
An information and communications technology (ICT) tutor teaching a short desk-top publishing course encourages learners to get into using the skills immediately by giving them a learning plan in the form of a tree that they can customise to reflect their individual needs and interests. Tree of learning