The first panel of your Q4 GAP triptych ends on Friday, April 28. You will receive the usual data- and evidence-gathering assignment that morning. On Friday, you will also need to submit the “Succinct Self-Analysis” assignment that was post to Google Classroom during P1 on April 24. The assigned template looks like this:
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A copy will be sent to you through Google Classroom, and you will see that it’s been organized already. Keep the layout as it is. At some point after class on Monday, in the box labeled for that day, you must answer the following questions:
- What did you accomplish in class today?
- What did you learn in class today?
- What’s next?
Look to spend 10-15 minutes on this. You can write more, of course, and the boxes in your document will expand as you type. Blend your responses into paragraphs, not bulleted lists. You are focused on being succinct. Read the definition here, and notice that it’s not about length; it’s about avoiding unnecessary words. Short and perfunctory (read that definition here) is useless for our purposes.
At some point after class on Tuesday, in the box labeled for that day, answer those three questions again, blending your responses into succinct paragraphs. Repeat this process on Wednesday, and then again on Thursday.
Evidence: Revision History
If you click on the File menu in Google Docs, you’ll see an option to check revision history. When you select that option, every change you’ve made to the document is called up for review. Read more about this process here.
On Friday, selecting this option should pull up evidence that you’ve worked on this assignment once a day for four days. It is straightforward enough to check this, because each timestamp shows, down to the minute, what you’ve changed:
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If you aren’t diligent about writing each day, it will be obvious. Budget 10-15 minutes, or plan to use 10-15 minutes of class time to do this — not the best plan, but certainly one that would work in a pinch. See what this sort of ongoing and embedded metacognition does to encourage you to use your class time more effectively and deliberately.
This daily, succinct self-analysis is a requirement for all Tier 4 GAP scores. Done well, it might also be enough to pull those of you who’ve perhaps made poor decisions so far this quarter up into a higher tier. This assignment will create evidence of almost every skill or trait we value.
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