Assignment: Objective 1 Assignment

The Unique Learning System 101
2022-06-11T01:29:31Z

Due:

Purpose 🎯

The purpose of this form of writing is to provide an opportunity for reflection on your work. This Essay will allow you to write down your experiences and thoughts and use them to identify your future goals and aims — Through this assessment you will develop skills in enhancing reflection, facilitating critical thought, expressing feelings, and writing focused arguments.

Task Description ✏️

Write about a memorable moment in the classroom and how it reminded you about why you love what you do.

In your Reflective Essay, you must:

Draw from the personal experiences and the discussions forums throughout the semester

At least 1 page long

Additional Information 📚

To help you complete this task successfully, the following resources are provided:

Marking Rubric — refer to this to understand how you will be assessed

Example: Reflective Essay — review this to see a completed example of the task

Step 1: Task Understanding

To help you understand what you need to do for this task and how will be assessed, you must:

Read the Marking Rubric

Read the Example: Reflective Essay

Step 2: Plan Reflective Essay

To help you plan your Reflective Essay, use this structure, adding dot points under each heading:

Introduction:

Focus: state the focus of your reflection

Course material: identify theories or course material that helped you in this experience

Lessons: share the main lessons you learned from this experience

Main themes: introduce the main themes that you will address in the body

Suggestions: offer suggestions as to what you learned from the experience and how you may move forward

Body — for each theme you should:

Identify: the theme, as introduced in the introduction

Personal experience: share a personal experience/s that supports each theme

Alignment: connect your experience clearly to course material, research, or other experiences to support the theme

Conclusion:

Review: the importance of your experiences within the context of learning

Restate: how you will move forward from this specific experience

Suggest: additional opportunities for future growth or engagement

Step 3: Write Essay

Building on your plan, write your Reflective Essay. Things to remember:

Be descriptive: state your thoughts clearly, making it easy for a reader to understand

Be formal: even though this essay is reflective, it is still an academic paper

Be factual: state your thoughts clearly, making it easy for a reader to understand

Be selective: choose the most important and significant experiences

Be logical: sort your ideas, thoughts, and insights in a logical order

Review Example: Reflective Essay

Step 4: Review

When you have completed your Reflective Essay, review your work carefully for spelling, grammar or other errors

Check that citations and references match

Read the Marking Rubric again to check that you have met the criteria

Review the Example: Reflective Essay

Step 5: Submit Final

Submit your Reflective Essay

Remember: You can submit your work as many times as you like before the due date.

Check your email for a submission confirmation email

Once graded, review your feedback in Canvas

Evaluation Rubric

Your course content will be evaluated using the following rubric. Before you submit your project for grading, please check it against this rubric to make sure you have adequately addressed all of the evaluation criteria. Please click on the following link to view a printable PDF version of the Marking Rubric

https://www.cadmus.io/templates/reflective-essay

https://www.kibin.com/essay-writing-blog/2-reflective-essay-examples-and-what-makes-them-good/

https://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/teacher-well-being/

Purpose 🎯

The purpose of this form of writing is to provide an opportunity for reflection on your work. This Essay will allow you to write down your experiences and thoughts and use them to identify your future goals and aims — Through this assessment you will develop skills in enhancing reflection, facilitating critical thought, expressing feelings, and writing focused arguments.

Task Description ✏️

Write about a memorable moment in the classroom and how it reminded you about why you love what you do.

In your Reflective Essay, you must:

Draw from the personal experiences and the discussions forums throughout the semester

At least 1 page long

Additional Information 📚

To help you complete this task successfully, the following resources are provided:

Marking Rubric — refer to this to understand how you will be assessed

Example: Reflective Essay — review this to see a completed example of the task

Step 1: Task Understanding

To help you understand what you need to do for this task and how will be assessed, you must:

Read the Marking Rubric

Read the Example: Reflective Essay

Step 2: Plan Reflective Essay

To help you plan your Reflective Essay, use this structure, adding dot points under each heading:

Introduction:

Focus: state the focus of your reflection

Course material: identify theories or course material that helped you in this experience

Lessons: share the main lessons you learned from this experience

Main themes: introduce the main themes that you will address in the body

Suggestions: offer suggestions as to what you learned from the experience and how you may move forward

Body — for each theme you should:

Identify: the theme, as introduced in the introduction

Personal experience: share a personal experience/s that supports each theme

Alignment: connect your experience clearly to course material, research, or other experiences to support the theme

Conclusion:

Review: the importance of your experiences within the context of learning

Restate: how you will move forward from this specific experience

Suggest: additional opportunities for future growth or engagement

Step 3: Write Essay

Building on your plan, write your Reflective Essay. Things to remember:

Be descriptive: state your thoughts clearly, making it easy for a reader to understand

Be formal: even though this essay is reflective, it is still an academic paper

Be factual: state your thoughts clearly, making it easy for a reader to understand

Be selective: choose the most important and significant experiences

Be logical: sort your ideas, thoughts, and insights in a logical order

Review Example: Reflective Essay

Step 4: Review

When you have completed your Reflective Essay, review your work carefully for spelling, grammar or other errors

Check that citations and references match

Read the Marking Rubric again to check that you have met the criteria

Review the Example: Reflective Essay

Step 5: Submit Final

Submit your Reflective Essay

Remember: You can submit your work as many times as you like before the due date.

Check your email for a submission confirmation email

Once graded, review your feedback in Canvas

Evaluation Rubric

Your course content will be evaluated using the following rubric. Before you submit your project for grading, please check it against this rubric to make sure you have adequately addressed all of the evaluation criteria. Please click on the following link to view a printable PDF version of the Marking Rubric