Professional Development Action PlanProfessional Development Action Plan
The Professional Development Action Plan (PDAP) is the document that allows you to detail in your portfolio your professional and personal development opportunities in your probationary year. This should be completed in the same way as your Initial professional development action plan (IPDAP). Please note that the PDAP from your Interim Profile will be automatically copied across into your second Interim or Final Profile in the IPDAP section so that it can be used as a starting point for the next term.
Identifying your targets and actions
Professional Development Action Plan (PDAP) targets should be:
- specific and focused
- clearly linked to your key strengths and areas for development that identified either
- by you in your initial Self-evaluation Overview form
or - by your Headteacher on the key strengths and areas for development page of your Interim Profile and Final Profile
- by you in your initial Self-evaluation Overview form
- listed in an order of priority
- have a defined timescale given (eg "by the end of March", "by mid-May")
- be achievable in the timescale given
- to be measured in an easily identifiable way.
PDAP actions should:
- encourage a step-by-step approach to future development
- be linked to specific aspects of the SFR
- identify clearly the action the probationer teacher is to take
- include specific actions that encourage
- team/shadow teaching
- working with colleagues
- personal research
- implementing school policies
- specific CPD activities
