Cultural Blog — Your Learning Plan

The Big Idea

Your Learning Plan is a written commitment to yourself and your facilitator about how you will learn, ask for help, and manage your time in this programme. Once written, you will add it to your blog — alongside your Identity and Values post from Sprint 1 — so both are linked and visible.

⚑ This task is assessed Your Learning Plan is formally assessed. It must be specific and honest — a generic plan does not meet the criteria.

Your Roadmap

Write your Learning Plan

Write your plan in a temporary document first (Google Docs, a local text file). You will copy it into your blog in the next step.

Your Learning Plan must address all seven of these:

1. Long-term goal — What is your career pathway or long-term goal? Be specific.

2. Strengths and limitations as a learner — What helps you learn? What gets in the way? Be honest.

3. Human skills to develop — What non-technical skills do you want to build at Dev Academy? Name specific ones.

4. How you will manage your workload — Include:

   • How you will work productively and safely with other learners, facilitators, and industry contacts
   • What you will do when things start to feel overwhelming

5. How and when you will seek help — Be specific. Do not say "I'll ask when I need to" — describe what that actually looks like for you.

6. What you expect from the facilitation team — What support do you need from them?

7. Scheduling commitments — Are there block-out times when you are unavailable? e.g. school drop-offs, part-time work. Write them in.

Your facilitator will review this at the end of Sprint 2.

Publish both blog posts

You will publish two blog posts in this step:

1. Identity, Values, and Strengths — from your Sprint 1 exploration
2. Learning Plan — what you just wrote

Step 1: Create the files

In your terminal, navigate into blog/blog-posts and create two files:

cd blog/blog-posts
touch identity-values.html
touch learning-plan.html

Step 2: Add the HTML template

Copy the contents of this HTML template into each file.

Step 3: Update the CSS link

In each file, find the <link> tag and update the href to point to your main.css using a relative path.

Step 4: Add your content

• In identity-values.html — paste your Identity, Values, and Strengths content
• In learning-plan.html — paste your Learning Plan

Step 5: Commit and push

git add -A
git commit -m "Add identity-values and learning-plan blog posts"
git push

How to know you've nailed it

The Big Idea (revisited)

Your Learning Plan is not a formality — it is a working document. You will return to it throughout the programme. Write it honestly so it is actually useful.