1. In Week 1, you described your “best self” in relation to work in the classroom. We have covered many topics and explored/refined many skills in this course. What would you add to or modify about your best self as you prepare for your next courses? How will the changes you made help propel you forward?
2. Reflection can also help us solve problems or make decisions for the future. Reflecting on a challenge you encountered this term, how might one of the strategies presented in the text help you overcome similar challenges in the future? Explain.
3. Finally, there were many excellent points shared by Paul LeBlanc, Greg Fowler, and Amy Stevens in the closing video. What is one takeaway that stood out to you personally?
In week one I described my best self as “to acknowledge my strengths and weaknesses
while tackling on any assignment. It is to give my 100% with anything that I do and to not give up when I am having trouble.” I still believe this to be my best self and there is nothing to add or to be modified. If I continue to move forward with this definition of my best self then, just as I said I will not give up and give my 100% on everything that I do. To be honest, everything “taught” in this course I already have learned through past experience or is something that I already have done in high school. There weren’t any challenges in this course, or my others throughout the past 8 weeks. Time management, coping with stress, and the use of amenities such as the writing center are all great ways to overcome challenges in the future. With time management this will definitely help reduce the stress of turning assignments in late, or last minutes. Coping with stress is a skill we should all have, as no one likes to deal with it. Finally using the amenities provided to us will help improve our grades overall. After listening to the reflection video, what stood out to me personally was Amy Stevens
quote saying “if i'm in the past, it wasn’t a good day. If i'm in the future, if I’m problem solving,...it was a good day.” I completely agree with this, being stuck on things that happened in the past is not progressing towards anything. Learning from the past and making changes in the future so that it doesn’t happen again, that is now something that
is positive and a good way of thinking.
