Your Goal Grade
Highlight the header for the column below to indicate which grade you plan to work toward in the course. Meeting the basic requirements for your chosen letter grade, according to the table below, is mandatory.
| A Work | B Work | C Work |
-Misses one class or less, or completes make-up work for excused absences -Annotates all readings thoroughly -Makes substantive comments in discussions -Completes all assignments on time (or has an approved extension request) -Work demonstrates intellectual engagement, care, effort, and growth in response to feedback -Collaborates substantially, contributes to vision, works equally with peers | -Misses two classes or less, or completes make-up work for excused absences -Annotates readings -Often participates in discussion -Completes all major assignments on time (or has an approved extension request) -Completes most SAs on time -Work demonstrates care, effort and growth in response to feedback -Collaborates equally, completes required work | -Misses three classes or less, or completes make-up work for excused absences -Completes most readings -Sometimes adds to discussion -Completes all major assignments on time (or has an approved extension request) -Completes at least four SAs -Meets minimal expectations on assignments; shows limited growth in response to feedback -Completes required collaborative work |
First-Week Introduction
[Complete the goal-setting portions of your class portfolio by choosing your goals, going over the syllabus in detail, and explaining what assignments you may use to demonstrate how you have been developing in those areas and what will best demonstrate your progress. Then, write a brief introduction here where you explain why you chose your five goals. What assignment makes you most excited for the semester? Which one seems like it will be the most challenging? What strategies do you want to set for yourself to make the semester a success?]
The five goals that I chose were : skills for life long learning, problem solving skills, Reading, Critical and creative thinking, and oral communication. I decided on these five goals because when picking out these goals I wanted them to be based around assignments from last semester. That way I’m able to have evidence to show for these goals and it’s easier for me to show others who view my contract how I was able to grow in this class. For this semester, I’m very excited for the lab we’re going to be doing later on. Just excited for the fact that we’ll be doing a hands on activity rather than listening and taking in information from organizations. The one assignment that I feel as though will be the most challenging this semester is the group work, just because out the amount of writing and reading that goes into the assignment and also having to work with others and the possibility of them not fulfilling their duty in the group. Some strategies that I want to set for myself to make this semester for successful is time management and organization. I’ve noticed that the reason why I didn’t do so good last semester was because I didn’t take time out of my week to prepare myself mentally for the following week.
Midterm Introduction
[Speak about the skills and content you’ve learned during the first half of the semester. What did you most enjoy? What did you struggle with? What goals do you think you’ve most excelled at meeting and what do you want to continue developing during the second half of the semester? What goals haven’t you yet met, and how will you make them a priority in the second half of class?]
Final Introduction
[Now that the semester is over, use your introduction to reflect in-depth on your process. How well did you meet the goals you set out to meet? What did you learn that surprised you? Focusing on your goals for this class, what do you want to remember to take with you into your future courses? What strategies can you use to continue developing toward these goals?]
Course Goals
Choose five goals from the CODES Student Learning Outcomes that you’d like to work toward. Choose goals that are relevant to the scope of this course, select artifacts/examples based on activities assigned for this course, and explain characteristics in a way that illustrates how your artifacts/examples demonstrate your progress toward the goal.
Goal 1 (25%) skills for life long learning (7b)
Process and use given information in a way that I’ll stay with me forever so that it may be a time that it will be reliable to me in some kind of way.
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
| when I visit organizations such as JJK FAN, Heartlands, or any other future companies, I can jot down any information that I find interesting and useful to surrounding communities. Also when I do collaborate with these organizations there will be times where physical activity is something that I’m going to be doing and because of this I will be ensuring that the skills I pick up along the way is something that I can always refer back to down the line. | – SAs -Partner visits -community visits -community visits -labs | Show proof of evidence that I’ve taken down from any labs, meeting, sources and explain how the chosen pieces of evidence will be something I deem as reliable in the moment and for the long run. |
[For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]
Goal 2 (20%) Problem solving skills
Based on (9b): Find solutions that take into account all the different circumstances at play
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
| I will create solutions that consider all different circumstances involved in creating a solution. | -SAs -Group projects -Community visits -Community visits | When it comes to the issue that me and my group are focusing, I wouldn’t just focus on one aspect of it, instead I’ll suggest that we look at the bigger picture and take into account the many conditions that are relevant to our solution. So when it comes to meeting with residents of centerville the issues that they state they are facing at the time, I would suggest multiple solutions to my group for the residents of centerville and we can also create mini solutions so that any run in that we have, we can also have some kind of solution. |
[For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]
Goal 3 (10%)Reading
Based on (11c): Read in a critical way to engage in ongoing conversation with other people
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
| I will ask myself questions about the authors argument and evidence. I will try to figure out their main point and look at the given sources in different perspectives to be able to engage in discussion with my peers and outsiders. | -SAs -Group projects | Evaluate given texts and break them down to better my understanding in hopes to have strong open discussion with my peers. |
[For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]
Goal 4 (25%)
Based on (2a): I will carefully examine information and develop solutions to address certain issues within the given information thoroughly
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
| When it comes to finding solutions to whatever problem I may be facing at the time, instead of me going head first I will start off by breaking the problem down by asking myself questions from different angles just to figure out how I’m going to attack without getting frustrated along the way because that is something I notice that I do quite often when it comes to addressing any issue. | -SAs -group projects -open discussions – partner visits -community visits | Success for this goal would look like me having minor issues when it comes with dealing with problems within my group or any assignment within the class. I would explain what the issue is at the time and I was able to come over it. This could be an issue that I faced with another peer within my group project or a writing issue that I may have run into when completing my SAs. I would also show the many different approaches that I took to solve this issue |
[For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]
Goal 5 (10%)
Based on (8a): Present information in a organized way that is easy to follow and understand
| What will you do to learn the content/ develop the skill? | What examples will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | What characteristics of the chosen examples demonstrate you have met your goal? |
| To progress this given skill, I will work on time management because in order to for me to present any information as best as I can, I must work through the given information thoroughly. This will ensure that I separate the strongest information from the weakest and what important from what’s not as important. Also make sure that everything that I gathered is organized so that when I present the information it isn’t all over the place. | 1.) open discussions 2.) presentations | When it comes down to me presenting the information that I gathered to my peers, I would flow it out naturally. The feedback I would receive from others should be focused on how clear my purpose was during my presentations. |
[For each 5% of effort you assign to your goal, provide at at least one example or artifact that demonstrates your learning process and shows how your made progress toward meeting that goal this semester (You would need four examples if the goal was worth 20% of your grade). Show how you have improved over time, what methods you took to grow, and talk about what you still plan to do in the future. ]