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
Knowledge legislative,
legal, and regulatory
practices specifically

STRATEGIES
What are the best ways
to achieve this goal?
Hands on experience
with various settings and
insurances, seek out the
information from
mentors and
organization resources

Critical reasoning
experience in general to
influence and inform
future reasoning

Experience & practice

Interpersonal abilities
better integrate feedback

Ask for more direction,

ask for more feedback

Performance skills
experience

Experience

Ethical reasoning
experience & voicing

Experience ethical
challenges,

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RESOURCES
What do I need to help
me achieve this?
AOTA access, FW,
mentors

SUCCESS
INDICATORS
How will I know I
achieved it?
Knowing how to
proceed within a given
setting or insurance
confines, comfort level
therein, faster
documentation

TARGET DATE
When do I plan to
achieve it?
By end of FW, I will
grasp the regulatory
practices associated with
school-based practice.

*all of these are ongoing

and will never be fully
achieved.
FW, make running list of Comfort level with
By end of FW, I will
experiences, how
treating patients and
grasp clinical reasoning
others approached it decreased second
with common pediatric
guessing
diagnoses treated in the
school system and be
able to generalize to
wider populations
FW, write down
Feedback improves from By end of FW, I will
feedback for
FW supervisor, comfort integrate the feedback
reminders
accepting and
from my supervisor to
understanding feedback the best of my ability
FW, mentor, hands on
Comfort level with
By end of FW, I will
experience
treating and interacting
improve my OT services
with patients, faster
and documentation to
documentation
increase efficacy
FW, mentor, AOTA
Voicing my opinion and By end of FW, I will find
guidelines
decisions regarding
my voice to approach

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my stance

understanding the
guidelines set forth by
AOTA

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ethical dilemmas is
natural and easy

pediatric clients,
parents/caregivers, and
other professionals with
my ethical stance.