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© UTS College ACCO001 ACADEMIC COMMUNICATION Semester 2 Assessment Item Name SMART goals and Learning Cycle 3 Weighting 12% Due Date Week 10 Assessment item description A description of the assessment item is as follows: Purpose : to Analyse and evaluate your own language learning; to become an independent learner. Process : Identify the language and study skills that you want to improve in order to succeed at UTS College and in the workplace. Subject learning outcomes (SLOs) & Language learning outcomes (LLOs) On successful completion of this assessment item, students should achieve the following outcomes: SLO 3i: LLO earnestly examine your own communication and study skills in academic and social contexts 1. Reflect on, evaluate and manage learning to enable life-long independent language learning 2. Reflect on weekly experiences, including participation in social and academic contexts Assessment item brief For this assessment item you are required to produce the following: Task: This Assessment Task has two (2) parts: Part A and Part B Part A: SMART goals Answer questions relating to the language and study skills you wanted to improve. Assessment Task 1C SMART goals and Learning Cycle 3 Part A: answer questions relating to the language and study skills you want to improve. Which area of language and which specific skill did you choose to improve? Group conversations ASSESSMENT ITEM BRIEF
© UTS College Which area of study skills did you choose to improve? Time management Why did you want to improve these language and study skills? How did you know you needed to improve them? I wanted to improve these skills because I do not feel like I am good at them. I knew I needed to improve them because I am not good at them. What were your specific SMART goals – for your language and your study skills? Did they change throughout the semester? Why? Why not? My goals were to speak in groups and to stick to a study schedule and manage my time better. My speaking one did change, and it is to talk more about my ideas, and my studying one is the same and wants to revise more of my goal has increased. It is because I feel like I still struggle with my goals and want to further increase my abilities. How did you measure your improvement? What is the evidence of improving? [Provide a brief description of the evidence and provide two (2) images as visual documentation] I checked at what times I started work and aimed to start at 10 am and starting my work I improved my language goal by being in a group more. How were both your SMART goals relevant to your studies? My smart goals are relevant because engineering is a field where you can work on things collaboratively and need group input and ideas to further achieve a collective goal and being able to explain instructions and ideas is crucial. What are your SMART goals for next semester? My goals are going to be the same and I will focus on these main goals and when I feel like I have achieved them to a better extent I will go for another weak point or goal I want. Part B:
© UTS College Reflection Write a reflection on your language learning processes for the entire semester; consider how you are going to continue your SMART goals in your future Diploma subjects (minimum 250 words). Follow the structure that you learnt in Week 1: Description, Feelings, Evaluation, Analysis, Conclusions and Action Plan. Write a small paragraph under each heading. A paragraph is a number of sentences that relate to one main idea. Do not just write one sentence. The headings are in bold and in the center of the page, but you should start your paragraph aligned to the left and indented, and do not use bold. Double space your work. Figure 1 Gibbs Model for Reflective Writing Description This semester I have been focusing on language techniques and how to use them in an academic and social setting applying these skills to my advantage and provide insight and input in conversation. Academic language is used to improve the way you communicate with others and to help them better understand your points and correctly understand them. Feelings I feel like this semester was a good introduction to how to act and use academic literacy and was useful for the foreseeable future. The class activities were sometimes entertaining and were a good way to gauge the skills and how to apply the skills to real conversations which in turn you can practice those skills and improve on them. Evaluation Overall, the activities were engaging and allowed students to learn and improve on involving them in conversations, allowing them to practice and improve on what they learnt. The class is not able to perform to its fullest potential without multiple people and with only one person participating it is difficult, but my class had enough people, and the groups have everyone participating, which is helpful. Analysis Being interactive with the activities is the best way to apply academic literature and if you feel like you are lacking in something your able to learn from it and improve on it for next time which is helpful and allows students to build upon what they are lacking. Without constant repetition you are not able to use the newly acquired skill and utilize it to the fullest potential. Conclusions The constant conversations and ability to work on goals is the best part and is crucial to building up your skills. This class is a great introduction to academic literature and is useful to those lacking in that area and are not able to properly use crucial skills needed in the workplace or in academic conversations. Action Plan The next time I would do the same because it covers most of the skills and what you need for the future and is a good introduction to how and why it is important within your field. It takes advantage of having a class and involves a group which is the most crucial part of this class and allows the students to work on their goals.
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