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Evaluate learning style and career targets
Assessment Strategies
Analyzing personalized academic success tool kit.
Creating personalized academic success tool kit.
Criteria
you identify your learning style(s).
you identify strategies that accommodate your learning style in a variety of learning situations
you examine and reflect upon your value system from a world-view perspective.
you examine and reflect upon your work values using psycho-social assessments
you align your work values to potential career aspirations via career tools.
you identify resonant career paths and create a plan to investigate and choose a career
you identify the concepts of emotional intellegence.
you recognize the impact of emotional intellegence within your personal, academic, and career environments
you create emotional intelligence learning plan that can be applied within your personal, academic and career environments.
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Think critically
Assessment Strategies
Applying problem-solving strategies in a given context.
Apply information analysis strategies in a given context
Criteria
you use details to discover larger ideas/abstractions.
you examine existing ideas and develop new ones.
you manage and interpret information in a reliable way
you are able to recognize the ideas you should abandon
you recognize reliable evidence and form sound conclusions.
you connect ideas and facts to find new possibilities.
you are able to think creatively about missing assumptions
you are able to think creatively about alternative solutions
you can identify the key ideas
you can formulate logical arguments and avoid pitfalls, i.e. logical fallacies
you can convincingly present your ideas to others
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Use academic resources
Assessment Strategies
Identifying academic resources.
using academic resources.
applying academic resources.
Criteria
you identify and locate academic resources at your campus
you comprehend the benefits and utility of the academic resources at your campus.
you identify and locate your assigned academic advisor
you create a multi-semester advising schedule
you identify the dates you can register
you create an academic plan that allows for flexibility
you identify potential barriers to executing your academic plan
you plan for solutions to potential barriers
you comprehend standards for academic success (MATC's institutional academic policy)
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Display self-awareness
Assessment Strategies
create a life plan for success
create a academic plan for success
Criteria
you identify your core values.
you identify your perspectives and world views
you identify your underlying negative thought processes.
you identify your underlying positive thought processes.
you analyze your self-defeating behavioral patterns.
you analyze your self-affirming behavioral patterns
you include assessment of where you were
you include assessment of where you are
you include assessment of where you want to go
you include your life goals
you include your academic goals
you include actions to reach short-term goals
you include actions to reach long-term goals
you include list of potential barriers
you include strategies to manage barriers
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Analyze inner motivation
Assessment Strategies
Creating a Life Plan for success.
Creating an Academic Plan for success.
Criteria
you identify your life dreams.
you identify intrinsic and extrinsic motivators to success.
you analyze how intrinsic and extrinsic rewards affect your motivation
you create a life plan for success
you include your life goals
you include your academic goals
you include long-term goals
you include short-term goals.
you include actions to reach long-term goals
you include actions to reach sort-term goals
you include strategies to manage barriers.
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Employ self-management strategies
Assessment Strategies
Reflecting on your actions
Reflecting on your strategies
Reporting on your actions
Reporting on your strategies
Criteria
you identify how you utilize your time
you track how you utilize your time
you assess the use of your time
you evaluate a variety of self management tools (i.e. calendars, tracking forms, next action list)
you assess your persistence/self-discipline in your actions
you identify strategies to address your lack of persistence/self-discipline.
plan includes self management tools.
plan includes strategies to address lack of persistence/self-discipline.
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Analyze personal financial choices and decisions
Assessment Strategies
Reflecting on your attitudes
Reflecting on your actions
Reflecting on your strategies.
Reporting on your attitude
Reporting on your actions
Reporting on your strategies
Criteria
you differentiate between needs and wants
you identify cost of basic needs
you set goals
you track your saving and spending
you use resources to obtain credit counseling
you analyze your saving spending and credits
you create a saving and spending plan in alignment with your goals
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Apply concepts of personal health and wellness
Assessment Strategies
Reflecting on your attitudes
Reflecting on your actions
Reflecting on you Strategies
Reporting on your attitudes
Reporting on your actions
Reporting on your strategies
Criteria
you identify the stressful elements in your life
you create a plan to reduce the stressful elements
you follow your plan to reduce the stressful elements
you self monitor your eating, sleeping and exercising patterns
you identify weaknesses in your eating, sleeping and exercising patterns
you create a plan to improve your eating, sleeping and exercising patterns
you follow your plan to improve your eating sleeping and exercising patterns
you request professional assistance if you are unsuccessful in reducing stress in your life
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Demonstrate personal responsibility
Assessment Strategies
Reflecting on your attitudes
Reflecting on your actions
Reflecting on your decisions
Reporting on your attitudes
Reporting on your actions
Reporting on your decisions
Criteria
you identify your role in making decisions
you identify good and bad decisions related to academic and life choices
you appraise strengths, weaknesses in relationship to any decision you make
you analyze the potential consequences and outcomes of your decisions
you make a choice based on your analysis of a decision that would be most effective
you identify the actions needed to implement the decision
you implement the decision
you obtain feedback on the outcome of your decision
you assess the effectiveness of your decision
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Analyze interpersonal relationships
Assessment Strategies
Reflecting on the nature of healthy relationships
Reflecting on the nature of unhealthy relationships
Criteria
you identify factors that contribute to building healthy relationships
you identify factors that interfere with building healthy relationships
you identify effective listening strategies
you use effective listening strategies
you identify characteristics of effective non-verbal communication in a given context
you use effective non-verbal communication in a given context
you demonstrate appropriate communication techniques for a variety of audiences
you demonstrate appropriate communication techniques in a variety of contexts
you analyze the impact of self-concept on relationships
you assess your own communication strengths
you assess your own communication weaknesses
you identify methods of conflict resolution
you apply methods of conflict resolutions
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Create skills for interdependence
Assessment Strategies
Participate on a team-based learning activity
Reflecting on a team-based learning activity
Criteria
you identify group goals
you follow established ground rules
you practice established principles of mutual respect
you demonstrate respect for cultural differences
you demonstrate respect for the opinions of others
you identify roles typically found in groups
you engage in productive roles in a group project
you avoid negative group roles
you perform multiple roles within a group
you participate in group interaction by your own initiative
you listen to group members
you give an accept constructive criticism
you propose goal-directed ideas to the group
you acknowledge group members responses with encouraging feedback
you share humor
you use non-verbal communication effectively
you demonstrate ability to compromise to reach consensus
you assess strengths and weaknesses of self and others
you analyze the effectiveness of group interactions
you analyze roles performed by members
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Connect with the larger community
Assessment Strategies
Participate on an experiential activity
Participate on an community activity
Reflecting on an experiential activity
Reflecting on an community activity
Criteria
you describe the benefits of service learning
you identify service learning opportunities within your educational institution and your community
you develop a collective service learning opportunity with your fellow students during the duration of the class.
you execute a collective service learning opportunity with your fellow students during the duration of the class.
you reflect upon/journal your experience of participation within the service learning project
you identify and report on the positive intent and outcomes of the service learning project as they resonate with your particular world view
you construct and report on a life-long personalized service learning plan.