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.

SUCCESS
LEARNING GOAL STRATEGIES RESOURCES TARGET DATE
INDICATORS
Related Standard 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. Knowledge: I will
read two research
articles per month in
order to remain
evidence-based in my
practice.
2. Critical Reasoning: I
will synthesize
information gained from
initial evaluations to
develop individualized
treatment plans based on
a patients observed frequently, tracking
deficits and needs.
3. Interpersonal abilities:
I will build professional
and meaningful
relationships with my
patients.
4. Performance skills: I
will improve my ability
to provide occupation-
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1. By setting aside time 1. I need to make time 1. At the end of each 1. I plan to achieve this
to research and locate for locating and reading month, I will reflect on periodically throughout
relevant articles. I can articles. I also need to whether or not I my practice.
also write a brief communicate with my achieved the goal by
summary of each article colleagues about looking at what articles 2. I plan to feel
to organize thoughts and relevant articles they Ive read. confident in this skill
help with may suggest for me to within 1 month of
implementation into read. 2. I will know Ive practice.
practice. achieved this by
2. I need to think about reflecting on my patient 3. I plan to achieve this
2. By practicing my each patient as an experiences, tracking periodically throughout
evaluation and individual and what their patient outcomes, and my practice.
observation skills strengths/deficits mean discussions with
for occupational colleagues about my 4. I plan to get better
patient outcomes, and performance. I need to reasoning. with each session
discussing though be able to look at several throughout my practice.
processes with factors and prioritize 3. I think I will
colleagues and mentors. areas of needs. I must be internally know whether 5. I plan to achieve this
able to think/explain or not I have built a prior to beginning my
3. By using good what Im doing and good relationship with professional practice.
judgment about peoples why. my patients. Through
personalities and how our interactions and their
best to match my 3. I need to be open and behavior, I will know if
personality to fit theirs. friendly with each we have a built a mutual
Also by using patient. I need to use respect. I can also ask
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based treatments in therapeutic use of self in
therapy sessions with each session.
patients.
4. By asking my patients
5. Ethical reasoning: I what they like/need to
will review the standards do in their everyday life,
and codes of conduct in taking time to plan
order to improve my treatments, having
ethical reasoning. discussions with my
colleagues on my
treatment ideas, reading
up on best practices for a
variety of diagnoses.
5. By setting aside time
to review them
thoroughly and taking
notes as needed.
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good judgement on how patients for their
best to build rapport feedback on my
with each patients. I interactions to gain
need to be caring, perspective.
compassionate, and
understanding. 4. I will self-reflect each
day on my treatment
4. I need experience with sessions and track which
real patients to help me ones were occupation-
achieve this. I also need based and which ones
to observe the werent. I will also ask
techniques of my for feedback from
colleagues and mentors, colleagues/mentors
and implement about my treatment
evidence-based practices ideas.
into my treatments.
5. When I have finished
5. I need time to reviewing them.
dedicate to this. If I have
any questions about
them, I will investigate
them further and ask my
colleagues/mentors.