Getting Started

Assessments:

 

• Respond to the statements as honest as possible by indicating true or false:

 

1.  I am aware of my intellectual strengths and weaknesses. Yes

2. I am able to know what kind of information is most important to learn. Yes

3. I am good at organizing information. Yes

4. I know what the teacher expects me to learn. Yes

5. I am good at remembering information. Yes

6. I have control over how well I learn. Yes

7. I am a good judge of how well I understand something. Yes

8. I learn more when I am interested in the topic. Yes

9. I try to use strategies or learning techniques that have worked for me in the past. Yes

10. I am aware of the methods that I am using when I study. Yes

11.  I use different learning strategies depending on the situation. Yes

12. I use my intellectual strengths to compensate for my weaknesses. Yes

13. I know when each strategy I use will be most effective. Yes

14. I slow down when I encounter important information. Yes

15. I draw pictures, diagrams and take notes to help me understand while learning. No

16. I try to translate new information into my own words. Yes

17. I ask myself if what I’m reading is related to what I already know. Yes

18. I try to break studying down into smaller steps. Yes

19. I ask myself periodically if I am meeting my goals. Yes

20. I consider several alternatives to a problem before I answer. Yes

21. I find myself analyzing the usefulness of strategies while I study. Yes

22.  I ask myself questions about how well I am doing while learning something new. Yes

23. I ask others for help when I don’t understand something. Yes

24. I am persistent when working on a challenging problem. Yes

25. I re-evaluate my assumptions when I get confused. Yes

26. I stop and re-read or re-view material when I get confused. Yes

27. I know how well I did once I finish a test. No

28. I ask myself if there was an easier way to do things after I finish a task. No

29. I ask myself how well I accomplish my goals once I’m finished. Yes

30. I ask myself if I learned as much as I could have once I finish a task. Yes

 

Step 3

• Complete the Work Habits Self Assessment either in Notability or paper version to reflect your predicted areas of strengths and areas of needed improvement. All done :):) 

 

Step 4

• Based on the outcome of the Self Regulation Inventory & Work Habits Self Assessments

A.  Provide a summary of your perceived areas of strengths and areas of needed improvement. 

                  I think I can improve on my ability to sort things into proper places. Learning new ways to be OCD is always fun and motivating. I hope I will be able to be so organized a baby could read through my work. 

 

B.  Provide the ratio of true to false out of 30. 

                  All true. 

 

Coure Benchmark Goals

Step 1

• What is it that you hope to know and be able to do at the conclusion of the class? 

I hope to gain knowledge about the origins of classical music and how that was the foundation to other types of music. 

 

• What are three things you would like to achieve in order to count your semester as successful? 

I would like to stay organized, work well with others so we can help each other when we get stuck, and to keep my knowledge outside of school so I can use it elsewhere in applicable situations. 

 

• How motivated are you to achieve these goals? 

Truly motivated... I mean, it's classical music!

 

• How will you increase your motivation if it becomes low during the course of the semester?

I will think of the end of the course when I have finished all the work I need to have done. Or I could go out and get some sugary pick-me-up :):) 

 

• What strategies can you use to achieve your goals?

I can keep constant check ins with you, Julie, and keep myself accountable whenever I see (or you see) my work lacking. 

 

• What might interfere with your achievement and how can you prevent this interference?

I might get a bit behind sometimes because of my AP French course, and I hope to mitigate that by keeping to a strict schedule on both fronts.