The Personal Learning Audit Parts 7, 8 and 9: Preparing your Future

Session outline: This session comprises parts 7, 8 and 9 of a personal learning audit, whose overall objective is to articulate the need, and stimulate the desire, for learning among citizens. These sections home in on the creation of personal learning plans that make a commitment to learning in the future. They provoke an inner searching into motivations, aspirations and personal needs. As in most audits, the questions and exercises are non-judgmental and are designed to promote a sympathetic dialogue between the participant and the person, usually but not necessarily a learning counsellor, as a culmination of the process of developing of a personal learning plan. The processes concerned here involve the use of a learning planner which harvests all learning aspirations, the development of a learning plan which rationalizes those aspirations and a section on how to keep to the plan and where support may be found. Learning Cities and Regions can use these exercises in many different types of environment - in community centres, with the unemployed, on second language courses, in learning providers and workplaces, in voluntary organizations and youth clubs, and as part of a drive to create a culture of learning among hard to reach people. They are however equally useful for those motivated people seeking to improve their status, performance and prospects. They can also be used to gather information on learning attitudes and requirements. The audits have been tested in a number of environments and this version improves on previous versions tested in the SKILL Europe and Learning Jamat projects. The opening introduction is repeated here for those who have not completed the previous sessions.