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A.1. Interview with another person who knows you well
– for example, a parent or other family member, close friend, or teacher.
Please identify your relationship with the person and how long he or she has
known you. The interview should focus on the person’s impressions of your
development as a reader and writer, especially in relation to your thoughts and
feelings about nature.
ü A.2. A page or more of your reflections on your own development as a reader and writer, especially in relation to your thoughts and feelings about nature.
ü Biweekly Learning Record. In general when your biweekly Learning Record is due you will hand in two or more pages typed, double-spaced, on your development in the last two weeks in confidence, independence, and skill with respect to reading, writing, speaking and listening, and the specific course goals you adopted. You will especially want to be reflective, increasing your consciousness of your own learning styles and creative processes.
ü Especially important are the course strands indicated by the assignments we have covered in the previous time period. For example, in the first weeks those strands were interpersonal skills (getting to know classmates); computers and HTML; left vs. right side of the brain, visual as well as verbal ways of knowing; interdisciplinary connections (between writing, drawing, reading, architecture, landscape architecture, etc.); emotional literacy and other intelligences; relations you perceive between this current and past courses (but the focus must remain on nature and this course); discovery learning, “radical changes”; the meaning of childhood; the relation between nature and childhood; Recovery of mystery, innocence, wonder, energy, etc.; “The Mystery” . . . .
ü However, this is not a diary, not just a record of what you did. You need to be self-reflective: focusing on how well you are meeting your goals for the course, changes in your awareness of self and the world around you, styles of learning, etc.
ü Your LR also includes complaints, difficulties with the course, and suggestions for changes.
LR Midterm.
Midterm summary of your progress toward the goals you have set for your self and your awareness of your own learning styles and creative processes.
Estimated evaluation in terms of grade, using the grading system outlined in the course description.
Suggestions for your own further development during the remainder of the semester.
Suggestions for class activities or for the professor to better support learning.
LR Final.
Turn in the LR final to Par 132 during class time or before, keeping a copy for your portfolio. There will be no class on May 2, as you came to an extra class at the Taniguchi gardens.
ü Judge how well you have met the goals you set out in previous LRs, not only in terms of what grade you seek, but what skills, ways of knowing and being, etc. you wanted to develop.
ü In the process, integrate all your weekly LRs and summarize. Unity is important.
ü Evaluate the course in terms of what worked for you and what did not.
ü This would be an excellent opportunity to include class pictures, a feature that might well help you get an A on this part of the portfolio, if the other requirements are met.
ü Add estimated evaluation in terms of grade (see course description for how to calculate your grade).
Make suggestions for class activities or for the professor to better support your learning and meeting such goals in future versions of the course.