When you are working in a makerspace, whether on complicated work like second-semester projects or simpler work like the purpose of literature, you must be especially vigilant about how you spend your class periods. The established feedback chain will take care of the feedback you need, if you stay on task. You must follow these three rules:
- You must set a daily goal, and it must be clear and specific.
- You must steadily collect evidence, perhaps nightly, so that you can self-assess when asked.
- Above all else, you must, per the terms of the course, read the instructions and instructional posts completely and repeatedly.
There are always multiple levels to those instructional elements, ranging from simplest to most in-depth, for you to access.
This post is simplified. It’s the digital equivalent of an in-class whiteboard:
This is most useful as a reference point for in-class discussion. It exists to prompt further reading.
Here are two more levels of interstitial instruction for this post:
The simple version is this:
- You must meet a goal of almost 100% focus when you are in the physical classroom.
- If you are off-task or unfocused, you trigger negative consequences.
- If you are on-task and focused during class, you will be successful.
The idea of a hand tally, as discussed here, is more conceptual than literal, but it can be literalized:
See the instructional posts above for what happens, good and bad, as you make your daily decisions, and read the following instructional excerpt for information about “faking it” until it clicks into place: