Cultural Blog - Your Learning Plan

Learning Objectives

By the end of this exercise, you should have:

• Formulated your Learning Plan
• Published your Learning Plan as a personal blog

Summary

This programme is not a traditional programme. It depends a lot on your motivation and organisation as a learner. This leads to a more individualised experience and increased learning skills moving forward. To facilitate this experience, each student creates a unique Learning Plan. Your learning plan will be reviewed by your Facilitator. It will include setting your learning targets based on the course learning outcomes, what you expect to do to meet your targets, and what the Facilitator is expected to do. This plan is a core part of your learning and will develop your skills to set and achieve targets in the future. We fully expect this plan to develop as you become more aware of how you work and learn.

Time Box

Description

The learning plan describes how you will operate within the Dev Academy Foundations and Bootcamp Programme context. It will be negotiated with peers and Facilitators as a Kaupapa for your individual learning. You'll use the last sprint's exploration of values, identity and strengths to describe the motivations and values you are bringing into your learning experience.

Participation

Your success in this programme depends on your full commitment to doing what you say you will do. If you say what, how, and when you will do something, everyone working with you will expect it delivered as promised. Anything different should be negotiated in a timely and professional manner to alter those expectations.

It isn't easy to develop a supportive community of learners if you are not fully participating in that community. Our whole approach of learning from each other, as equals, is hard to do if we are not all there.

Formulate Learning Plan

Time to formulate your Learning Plan! Write your findings on a temporary document (Google Docs, Notepad/TextEdit etc.). The Learning Plan needs to include the following:

1. What is your long term goal or career pathway?

2. A description of your strengths and limitations when it comes to learning

3. What skills (non-technical/human skills) would you like to see developed in yourself while at Dev Academy?

4. A commitment to how you will manage your workload in this programme. This should include:

   • An explanation of how you will manage yourself to work productively and safely with other learners, Facilitators and industry/community representatives
   • What you will do when things are building up and starting to get to you

5. A commitment as to how and where you will seek help in a timely way

6. A description of what you expect from the Facilitation team

7. Any scheduling information such as block-out times when you are committed to other things. For example, you might have whānau commitments like school drop-offs. It's important to plan these in.

Your Facilitator will review your Learning Plan at the end of this Sprint.

Publish Human Skills Blogs (x2)

In this exercise you will publish 2 human skills blog posts - last sprint's Identity, Values, and Strengths Exploration and this sprint's Learning Plan.

Conduct these steps using the terminal:

1. Navigate INTO USERNAME.github.io/blog directory
2. Create two files: identity-values.html and learning-plan.html
3. Copy and paste this template into each file.
4. In each file, update the link tag's href so it links to where your main.css file is (hint: make sure it's a relative path).
5. In identity-values.html, copy and paste your Identity, Values and Strengths Exploration
6. In learning-plan.html, copy and paste your Learning Plan
7. Stage, commit, push.
8. View your blogs on your web browser, e.g. http://USERNAME.github.io/blog/identity-values.html