What are the benefits of PDP to academic tutors?
PDP is a new way of articulating existing principles and practices. Its introduction is mainly a matter of making coherent and explicit to all students the presence and the value of established processes that are central to learning in higher education. Academic tutors have always encouraged students to make progress towards intellectual independence, to become more self-aware, to plan for and take responsibility for their own development. Academic tutors bring their existing skills to support students in this, providing feedback, challenges and different perspectives to help their students identify possibilities for change. Many routine academic practices are built on this in implicit ways. The introduction of PDP makes it explicit that dialogue between tutor and tutee supports not only the student’s deepening understanding of their subject but also the student’s growing ability to think critically about their own performance and how to improve it. This is already made explicitly with
