Personal Development Plan - April 2016

1. Think back to last month - considering the whole academic year; Your confidence, your attitude to learning, the work itself? 

* I am feeling slightly more confident now as my tablets are working amazingly, and my head is full of ideas for our exhibition at the end of this month. 

2. Think about your learning progression, your personal and social development: What skills have you acquired?

* I have gained more communication skills between the tutors, and with the students.

3. Be Self Critical; What have you learnt about yourself?

* That I can do it, none of this, no I cant. I can and I will.

4. At the start of the month; what concerns you?

* I feel nervous for the show as it is nearing and originally I was part of the 'curative team' and now I am part of the 'planing and organising everybody kind of team' and I feel I couldn't organise a pencil case let alone a team of people!

5. What excites you? 

* Even though I am concerned and nervous about the show I am also very excited.

6. What steps are in place to achieve your aims? 

* I am eating regularly having a set bed time, making plans and tasks for each day and taking my tablets at a set time everyday so my body is used to it.

Personal Development Plan - March 2016

1. Think back to last month - considering the whole academic year; Your confidence, your attitude to learning, the work itself? 

* I feel my confidence has been knocked however I feel I am getting through my work really well. I have never finished my YCN Brief so I don't feel that it's strong enough to hand in, as it would be embarrassing for both myself and the university to hand it in at this stage. 

2. Think about your learning progression, your personal and social development: What skills have you acquired?

* I haven't gained any skills this month I don't feel.

3. Be Self Critical; What have you learnt about yourself?

* That I can put off work, however if I aim to get x amount of tasks done in a day I will do this.

4. At the start of the month; what concerns you?

* I feel embarrassed that I haven't completed my YCN brief however I feel I have still got some work to show, in my Summative Assessment.

5. What excites you? 

* I'm excited for Easter now, I am really excited for some time off, and I am aiming to get my work done before Easter so I can have a break.

6. What steps are in place to achieve your aims? 

* Tasks per day.

Personal Development Plan - February 2016

1. Think back to last month - considering the whole academic year; Your confidence, your attitude to learning, the work itself? 

* My collide brief I am loving and it is making me want to do work outside of the studio I have been staying in the studio a lot more longer than normal hours, with me staying at university some nights pass 7pm-8pm and then when I came home I would carry on working and doing more work. 

2. Think about your learning progression, your personal and social development: What skills have you acquired?

* My time management has become a lot better this month and this is helping me to focus on my work load, I have distanced myself from people in my course which I don’t like but it does feel like I don’t fit in which does make university more difficult but I am creating more work. 

3. Be Self Critical; What have you learnt about yourself?

* I can focus better working alone. 

4. At the start of the month; what concerns you?

* Assessment week is coming around again and the only thing I am failing on is possibly my process and production as I have only one thing to show for my after effects sessions.

5. What excites you? 

* That I can get this collide brief done to high standards and help others feeling calm.

6. What steps are in place to achieve your aims? 

* I am back to the post it notes on my wardrobe and desk so I can aim to get as much work done on and off campus.

Personal Development Plan - January 2016

1. Think back to last month - considering the whole academic year; Your confidence, your attitude to learning, the work itself? 

* I was very negative throughout December and I am feeling slightly more positive in January due to me going home for a couple of weeks and going away, also with it being my birthday month this does make me feel more cheerful, within my work I have come back with a clean slate and attempting to do as much work as possible! 

2. Think about your learning progression, your personal and social development: What skills have you acquired? 

* I have learnt that after process and production classes I could stay and extend my work, which I am enjoying doing, however with after effects I am just going back through my notes to get through that course, so within Jay and Nick’s classes I am doing as much as possible after class.

3. Be Self Critical; What have you learnt about yourself?

* I have learnt that I will just sit and be quiet throughout my classes, I have shut myself out from people within my classes but this way I am focusing better. 

4. At the start of the month; what concerns you?

* I am going on placement week and I am quite nervous about that week. 

5. What excites you? 

* Even though it is scaring me, I am also excited about working in the industry and meeting new people.

6. What steps are in place to achieve your aims? 

* Keeping as positive as possible using anxiety apps to help me get through each day is helping me to make aims

Personal Development Plan - December 2015

1. Think back to last month - considering the whole academic year; Your confidence, your attitude to learning, the work itself? 

* I feel worse than last month this is because I am becoming fairly ill, constantly in pain and a lot of things have happened at home so I am becoming more negative about things. When work isn’t falling right either it makes you feel worse and makes me feel like i’ll never get through university.

2. Think about your learning progression, your personal and social development: What skills have you acquired? 

* My essay is still becoming part of my life in which I can get away from everything as writing is helping me relax, even though there is a deadline at the end of December these 2,500 words are helping me through.

3. Be Self Critical; What have you learnt about yourself? 

* I have become quiet again and not asking for help.

4. At the start of the month; what concerns you?

* That I won’t pass process and production in my summative assessment due to lack of resources and everything i’m trying isn’t working.

5. What excites you? 

* It’s nearly christmas and I will get to go home and chill out for a few weeks! 

6. What steps are in place to achieve your aims? 

* I haven’t made any. 

Personal Development Plan - November 2015

1. Think back to last month - considering the whole academic year; Your confidence, your attitude to learning, the work itself?

* In October I said I would speak out when I struggle, I feel that I am still achieving this however my confidence in After Effects is slacking somewhat, my attitude towards the class has changed and it is starting to effect my other process classes as I feel like I just can’t be bothered, the work is loading up on top of me and I can’t shake off this feeling that no matter what I create it won’t be good enough.

2. Think about your learning progression, your personal and social development: What skills have you acquired? 

* I don’t feel like my learning progression is aiming anywhere at the moment, however my seminars with Rob Lycett are helping me more than any other class at the moment this being I feel that writing Rob’s essay is getting me away from everything else.

3. Be Self Critical; What have you learnt about yourself?
* That I will say I understand what i’m doing when I don’t. 

4. At the start of the month; what concerns you?

* Assessment and Workshop week! 

5. What excites you?

* Workshop week was a success and I am going onto working in the industry for one week at the start of January 2016. 

6. What steps are in place to achieve your aims? 

* Post it notes are stuck all over my room with things I want to get done, and try to achieve in a week.

Personal Development Plan - October 2015

1. Think back to last month - considering the whole academic year; Your confidence, your attitude to learning, the work itself? 

* Last month I had a mindset ready as to what I wanted to get out of this term, I feel that I am staying as positive as I can and I am speaking out when i'm struggling. I don't want to struggle in silence, so I tell my tutor either face to face or via email, and if I am very nervous to speak I will speak to my Personal Tutor. I feel that by making lists it works and it doesn't work, It can stress me out by seeing the amount I have to do, however it makes me so relieved when I can cross them off one by one. 

2. Think about your learning progression, your personal and social development: What skills have you acquired? 
* I feel I have learnt a lot more skills in actually speaking to my tutors, I can approach them to ask them for help on personal project and to widen my skills. I have actually become a lot more confident in speaking to other people in which I have started attending extra Art classes with Calder Art Graphics, in Byram Arcade, Huddersfield.

3. Be Self Critical; What have you learnt about yourself? 
* That I can get anxious very quickly, I need to breathe and re-consider the situation before giving up, also by saying I will do this at home, I force myself to stay in University an extra hour, for example on a Tuesday we are in University 9:15 until 11:15 in a Lecture and then 11:15 until 17:15 we have the studio to ourselves with tutors circulating, throughout October I didn't leave any earlier than 16:00 however most nights I would be there till 19:00 and sometimes longer. 

4. At the start of the month; what concerns you?
* The deadlines, being a lot closer together this term, and still being fairly poor on Adobe After Effects.

5. What excites you? 
* That workshop week is coming up and I can gain more skills.

6. What steps are in place to achieve your aims? 
* Lists! A lot of lists!!!