Welcome back. We’ll do most of the heavy lifting online this week, so be sure to pay attention during class. We will cover all of the follow items.
2021 Reboot
Before you get to class on January 4, you will have a Q2A score in Infinite Campus. It can be unpacked through the same general feedback post you’ve had all year:
You can also use a spreadsheet that has been specially prepared for you. Load it here:
- Q2A Complete Notes: https://tinyurl.com/2020-Q2A-SC
You can learn a lot from looking at the performance of your peers, including the feedback they got and the way they self-assessed. You’re getting this spreadsheet, though, to emphasize how important the day-to-day learning process is.
In other words, you have to get better about how you spend your class time. Make your progress and process as transparent as possible. That will take care of the end goals — the final essay, the final project — while building up enough evidence to guarantee a good profile.
The real goal, by the way, is to drain the poison of grades and numbers from your body of work as much as possible. On my end, it’s necessary to track everything; on your end, the focus should be on the process. If you advocate, exercise self-control, practice independence, etc., you’ll be fine.
Late and Missing Work
First, a reminder that we can talk about any aspect of the course and your learning. You can attend office hours, schedule an appointment in person (once we’re back at school) or online, or send an email. You always have a voice.
That said, it will take a one-on-one meeting to open up any of the assignments from 2020. We have to move on. Your profile score is what it is, based on what you did or didn’t do.
Even if you struggled into December, you have a chance to salvage Q2. Look at the calendars for the year: https://tinyurl.com/2020-scope. Q2 ends on February 5, with a three-day window for self-assessment and discussion from February 2–4. That’s one month to build your Q2B profile.
You know how to do this, and if you need the refresher, everything is organized in one place for you:
More importantly, you have the ability to set daily goals and provide evidence of your progress through the evidence form created for you. Log in during class, work hard, and then submit some of your process as evidence. That’s all it takes.
Final Projects
We will start this week with the book-based project. Remember that the five projects you’ll do over the next five months have been listed since the first day of school — on our wall, in our syllabus, and on our course calendar.
The easiest place to see what’s planned is that calendar, which I’ll embed here:
- Scope and Sequence: https://tinyurl.com/2020-scope-week
All of those resources will be updated as we get closer to each start date. For now, you just need this:
And this: