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
Related Standard

STRATEGIES

RESOURCES

SUCCESS
INDICATORS
How will I know I
achieved it?
When I look at a
diagnosis and can
independently name
more than one
assessment that will be
appropriate to use
without having to look it
up.

TARGET DATE

What are the best ways

to achieve this goal?
Study my notes from
evals class, take notes
while on fieldwork, look
up research on
assessments, practice
giving assessments to
classmates and family
members.

What do I need to help

me achieve this?
Access to research and
assessments

Interpersonal abilities:
Be more assertive when
working with clients

Research ways to be
more assertive, start by
practicing being
assertive in mildly tense
situations and gently
work up to tougher
situations

Feedback from others

(coworkers,
employer, etc.)

I will feel more

confident in my ability
to handle tense
situations.

Critical reasoning:
staying up to date on
current research and
incorporating it into my
practice.

Continue my
membership with AOTA
and read their quarterly
journal.

Access to AJOT

When I can review what June 2018

treatments I did that day
and feel confident that I
am using evidence-based
practice.

Performance skills:
become more proficient
at therapeutic range of

Practice on willing
family and friends,
review notes from class,

Volunteers, access to
research, textbook, and
notes

When I can
independently perform
therapeutic range of

Knowledge: Increasing
knowledge about
selecting assessments
and administering them.

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When do I plan to
achieve it?
December 2017

August 2017

May 2017

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motion

textbook, and research,

review contraindications
and precautions

Ethical Reasoning:
Increase ability to
recognize and resolve
ethical dilemmas

Review AOTAs code of

ethics, attend continuing
education on ethics

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motion without having

to refer to my notes
AOTA membership,
access to CE on ethics

When I can easily

identify ethical
dilemmas and solutions

May 2018