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
1. Knowledge: By the end
of my second Level ll, I will
learn about the various
mental health diagnoses
and the most current
evidence to support
occupation-based
treatments.
2. Critical Reasoning : By the
end of my second Level ll, I
will improve my ability to
grade activities in the
moment while remaining
client-centered.
3. Interpersonal abilities: By
the end of my second level
ll, I will confidently and
effectively communicate
with patients and their
families using laymen’s
terms with decreased
anxiety about the value of
OT and the relevance of
treatment sessions.
4. Performance skills: By the
end of my second level ll, I
will improve the speed and
accuracy of my
documentation.
5. Ethics: By the end of my
second level ll, I will
practice using AOTA's code
of ethics during all of my
treatment sessions.
SUCCESS
STRATEGIES RESOURCES TARGET DATE
INDICATORS
What are the best ways What do I need to help How will I know I When do I plan to
to achieve this goal? me achieve this? achieved it? achieve it?
1. I will read through -1. Access to scholastic 1. Having a general 1. ongoing
scholastic journals and journals and AOTA. knowledge of a
diagnosis upon initially
interact with various
2. Mentorship from fellow reading a person's 2. ongoing
medical disciplines to referral without having
colleagues and access to U to refer to additional
increase my knowledge
on diagnoses.
of U faculty to ask resources. 3. ongoing
questions. 2. Having a sense of
confidence in my
2. I will ask my CI's to
3. Access to continuing clinical reasoning when 4. ongoing
increase my workload planning treatment
education courses. AOTA sessions and
as I gain confidence to
ensure that I have as
membership is a good implementing 5. ongoing
place to start. treatments accordingly.
much exposure as
possible to grade 3. Being able to
4. Taking a typing class and communicate with
activities in the moment. learning medical clients and families
without the assistance
3. I will take a abbreviations. of my CI.
communication course 4. Decreasing my
5. AOTA membership
to increase my documentation time by
leadership skills and 25%.
sense of confidence. 5. Knowing the various
ethical principles
4. I will time myself while without having to refer
to additional resources.
writing documentation
and set time-related
goals to improve
efficiency.
5. I will consult with fellow
occupational therapists
to examine how they
practice with an ethical
perspective.
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