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PIVOT Learning Aims Scale - Template for use in PIVOT Stage 3
This Learning Aims scale template is for use with the PIVOT stage 3 Generating Learning Aims for Practice activity
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PIVOT Stage 1: Personal Constructs of Practice
PIVOT Stage 1 is the foundation activity and provides an introduction to personal constructs. It is important to start here as the experience of enhanced reflection and the generation of your own personal construct grid will form the basis of further exploration of your values and learning aims
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PIVOT Stage 3: Generating Learning Aims for Practice
PIVOT Stage 3 draws upon the first two stages of personal constructs and values and enables you to generate your own concrete learning aims to work with in your practice setting. Therefore they will be unique and (most) meaningful only to you. You will be prioritising and scaling up to three constructs to develop personal goals and learning objectives and you will be identifying significant steps in reaching these
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Piloting PIVOT: The Professional Identity and Values Organisation Tool
PIVOT was piloted between March and September 2008 with a small number of tutors and students on the social work programme in one region in England. The project involved the creation and trialling of a suite of reflective activities based upon Personal Construct Psychology. The project and activities had a number of aims:
1. to help students to access their own constructs of learning
2. to facilitate an individual enquiry into personal and professional values
3. to offer an opportunity to identify and envision a desired future of specific learning
aims arising from these explorations
4. to develop a scale of movement and action plan to realise these learning aims
5. to explore the potential for enhancement of the programme tutor role
The PIVOT activities were successfully piloted and evaluated and are being developed in different forms to be further available to students and tutors.
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PIVOT Stage 2: Professional and Personal Values in Practice
PIVOT Stage 2 encourages deeper reflection upon your professional and personal values in practice. You will capture what is really important to you now, and your future aspirations. It may bring out ideas and values that you weren't aware of holding dear to you - a sort of 'I didn't know I knew it' experience
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Personal Constructs PIVOT Stage 1: Element Cards, Numbers Card and Question Card
Note for post-qualified workers and students: Some of the element labels in the materials, such as on the element cards and personal construct grid, may need to be slightly amended. Please be creative to change these to reflect your own needs. These tools provide essential staged processes but the actual elements are open for your own use. See Fransella (2005) in the further references section (http://www.open.ac.uk/pbpl/activities/details/projectpage.php?itemId=4832deec92f3e&pageId=4832e68f3a92c) for more discussions about the creative use of Personal Construct Psychology techniques
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PIVOT Learning Aims Scale - Completed Sample
This completed template of the PIVOT Learning Aims Scale provides an example to guide completion of the PIVOT Stage 3 Generating Learning Aims for Practice activity
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Values Ladder Template for use in PIVOT Stage 2
The Values Ladder template has been created to facilitate the reflective exercises set out in PIVOT Stage 2 activity
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Pre-PIVOT: The Commemorative Trophy for Good Works
A pre-PIVOT taster - the 'Commemorative Trophy for Good Works' is a short entry-level exercise that starts you thinking about yourself and how you think others 'see' you. It will give you an idea of the kind of enhanced reflection that the PIVOT tools will ask you to do
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Dialogues in widening participation: Transitions to professional qualification and the importance of self-directed learning
This paper explores some of the research processes and outcomes that emerged from the first stage of investigation into a widening participation initiative for professional training into social work in the UK. Programme evaluation is a complex and multifaceted undertaking that often highlights the research dilemmas of 'methods and mess'. The journey from planned structure to messy real-life realities and back to re-focused intervention and dialogue can be both a frustrating and a rewarding aspect of research into educational experiences. In this example, the progressive refinement of aims led to the re-discovery of Personal Construct Psychology as an empowering and dialogic method par excellence
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