Reflection: Senior Year
Week Seven Instructional Post: http://sisypheanhigh.com/malachite/?p=4212

This form is designed around your final writing task. Each prompt below gives you one of the paired universal skills and traits of learning seen here: https://tinyurl.com/universal-skills-traits. In the space provided, you can write reflectively about your experience and growth in those areas this year.

Treat this writing as brainstorming and outlining for the required reflection response. As such, each task below is optional but strongly suggested. What you submit here can be read and responded to directly before you begin fashioning an essay or other longer response.
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Collegiality ⇆ Empathy
This is the crux of our learning and the “stuff of growth,” as Ken Robinson once said. Empathy animates and facilitates the collaborative environments that drive innovation and progress. Productive academic collegiality and empathy are best built through discussion, writing, and especially reading in the Humanities.
Integrity + Character
This is the ongoing, underlying focus on the individual learning experience, especially the honesty and openness necessary to take risks. It is about, more than anything else, individualizing student learning as much as possible.
Close Reading ⟹ Internalization
This includes the texts you analyze for emulative purposes, the adoption of universal languages and structures, and the literature that gives you experience and empathy. Your memory is how you weave narratives, including your own, into meaningful shapes.
Critical Thinking ⟹ Metacognition
This is the skill of problem-solving in an authentic context, especially the metacognitive problem-solving that drives each learning choice. You want to add value and make meaning, and you strive to make that thinking as transparent as possible.
Effective Communication ⟹ Writing
The skill of writing is paramount, because the written word makes thinking clear and learning permanent. Writing gets us closer to the truth, as Neil Postman argued, and that is the goal of the Humanities. Discussions and other communications support and scaffold the writing process.
Amenability ⇆ Self-Awareness
Amenable folks seek and accept criticism and praise about all aspects of themselves and their work. That process must be goal- and growth-oriented at different times, and it requires a clear picture of strengths and weaknesses. Tony Wagner calls this “collective human judgment informed by evidence.”
Assiduousness ⇆ Self-Efficacy
This is how to live like an academic tardigrade: You must test your limits, develop resilience, and embrace failure as essential to learning. Hard work is just part of what is required to overcome procrastination, impulsivity, and complacency; you must also have a purpose beyond survival.
Organization ⟹ Autodidacticism
A systemic, systematic, and individualized approach to getting things done frames the rest of these skills and traits. This is learning how to learn, interstitially and incrementally, through the embrace of individual needs and expert guidance.
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