AOTA Professional Development Tool (PDT)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN WORKSHEET (5)

Learning Plan
Structure your learning plan to indicate how you will achieve your identified learning goals. The completed plan should be included in your
portfolio. Type information directly into the spaces provided.

Learning Goal

Strategies

Resources

Related Standard

What are the best ways to

achieve this goal?

What do I need to help me

achieve this?

Apply the principles of

health promotion, wellness,
prevention and/or
educational programming
based on client and
community needs in order to
provide information or serve
as a resource consultant for
occupation based program
activities.

Seek out occupation-based Observe occupational

programs currently headed by therapists who can provide
an occupational therapist or insight and model as a
utilizes an OT as a resource resource consultant for
consultant.
occupation based program
activities.

Success Indicators

Target Date

How will I know I achieved When do I plan to achieve

it?
it?
When I am able to provide
occupational therapy
Within the next year
interventions or strategies
with ease in order to educate
woman living with paralysis.

Use critical reasoning to

select and implement
Write a list of client factors
interventions and approaches and possible interventions
for an intervention session with appropriate grading.
consistent with client factors
and needs in order to achieve
functional outcomes within
areas of occupation.

My CI for my next internship When I am able to implement Within the next year
can help provide strategies interventions and assess
and experiences to improve client factors in the moment
this aspect of professional
without referring to an
skill development
previously written list of
interventions.

Evaluate the client on an

ongoing basis using
appropriate tools,
procedures, and protocols in
order to determine factors
that impact participation in
occupation.

My CI for my next internship When I am able to evaluate a Within the next 3 months
can help provide strategies client without anxiety
and experiences to improve
this aspect of professional
skill development.

Re-familiarize myself with

appropriate evaluation tools
for the population I will be
working with on fieldwork

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