National Teaching and Learning
Change Programme
Improving teaching and learning in Adult Learning

Themes | Planning learning and reviewing progress | What is a learning plan?

Themes

• Introduction
• Assessment
• Improving teaching and learning
• Planning learning and reviewing progress
  • Getting personal
  • What the process looks like
  • Identifying personal learning goals
  • What is a learning plan?
    • Making it work
    • Who needs a plan?
    • What does a learning plan look like?
    • Your anxieties addressed
  • Reviewing progress: why it's important
  • Celebrating achievement
• E-learning and e-assessment

What is a learning plan?

The learning plan is a map that you and the learner use to manage the learner's journey towards their personal goals. It should help the learner answer the following questions in as much depth as is feasible.

• Where am I now?
• Where do I want to get to?
• How will I get there?
• How will I know that I'm getting there/have arrived?

Or to put it another way, a learning plan records:

• outcomes of initial assessment
• personal learning goals
• learning strategies; and
• progress/achievement.

Once you and the learner have explored starting points you can agree some intermediate objectives and intended learning outcomes. These will give the learner something specific to work towards. This is a key stage in the RARPA process.