Syllabus & Log
Reading, Writing, & Study Skills for College
Welcome!
The rough outline of a week in our class...
Coffee and conversation
Current events
Goal setting and checking
College exploration
College thriving instead of surviving
College study skills
Tuesday
Fascinating reading!
Writing responses
Wednesday
Goal check
College applications and essays
Scholarships: search and apply
Thursday
More fascinating reading and discussion
Writing responses
Friday
Coffee and conversation
Current events
Goal setting and checking
Meta-awareness and the science of learning, happiness, curiosity, and imagination.
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Materials Needed
Charged laptop - every single day!
Binder with clear sleeve cover or pocket
Grading
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Senior College Night
Wednesday, Aug 31, 2016, 06:00 PM
Daviess County High School, New Hartford Road, Owensboro, KY, United States
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
Kids on Campus - Kentucky Wesleyan College
Come learn about The Wesleyan Way! Before Sept. 12, take some time to explore the KWC website and learn as much as possible about them.
Monday, Sep 12, 2016, 08:15 AM
Daviess County High School, New Hartford Road, Owensboro, KY, United States
College and Career Expo
Sunday, Sep 25, 2016, 01:00 PM
Owensboro Convention Center, West 2nd Street, Owensboro, KY, United States
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
FAFSA Night
Monday, Oct 24, 2016, 04:00 PM
Daviess County High School, New Hartford Road, Owensboro, KY, United States
RSVPs are enabled for this event.
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Class Happenings
Three asterisks (***) indicates there is an assignment to turn in or an independent activity to complete. Please see Susan Colbert or Jennifer Higdon for more information.
Friday, August 19
Learning Goals
Compare/contrast appropriate (for you) career paths through the lens of your character strengths and interest inventory
Assess the "fit" of a variety of job and career options
Activities/Instruction
Discussion on how to use character strengths identified through VIA survey.
***Go to http://www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip and wait for instructions before proceeding. (Assignment will be worth 30 points)
- Answer the questions from the perspective of "IF I knew how to do this, and IF I were good at it, how much would I enjoy it?"
- Do not answer in the middle column.
- There are 60 questions and you must answer each one. It will take you approximately 10 minutes.
- When you have answered all questions, hit next until you reach the "Interest Profiler Results." You will see the letters RIASEC and corresponding numbers.
- Print these results and also save them as a PDF using the following convention: Onet Lastname Firstname 16-0819 (For example: Onet Brodie Alex 15-0819).
- Email the saved Interest Profiler Results to Susan.Colbert@Daviess.KYschools.us and Jennifer.Higdon@Daviess.KYschools.us
- Click next and choose Job Zone 1.
- Choose a job from the list and complete the hand-out chart.
- Repeat for Job Zones 2, 3, 4, and 5
- Journal about the observations you make about the types of jobs in each category (at least five minutes)
Assessment
***Your personal Holland codes emailed to Susan.Colbert@Daviess.KYschools.us and Jennifer.Higdon@Daviess.KYschools.us
***Your completed table of a sampling of jobs as instructed above
Discussion
Thursday, August 18
Learning Goals
Identify signature strengths and how those strengths are currently used to face challenges and overcome obstacles.
Activities/Instruction
Group presentations promoting character strengths and discussion that digs deeper into strengths
*** Character Strength Survey - 30 points
1. 1. Check your email from Ms. Colbert for a hyperlink to survey registration:
http://DCHSCCR.pro.viasurvey.org
2. Register using your school email and a password that you will remember.
3. Click the circle for the ADULT survey.
4. Be very honest in your answers. Although Susan Colbert and Jennifer Higdon will see your results, we will not see your answers to individual questions. You must answer all 120 questions. The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. If there are statements that don’t make sense, raise your hand and one of us will provide clarification.
5. At the end of the survey VIA will ask for demographic information. You do not have to complete this portion!
6. We do not recommend checking the box to receive emails – if you do you will receive GOBS of emails trying to get you to buy reports based on your survey results.
7. When you get your results, print them out, retrieve them from the printer. Click on the download button at the bottom of your survey and save your results to your laptop using the following convention: VIA Lastname Firstname 16-0818 (For example: VIA Brandle Nathan 15-0818)
8. Email the document you just saved to Jennifer.Higdon@Daviess.KYschools.us and Susan.Colbert@Daviess.KYschools.us
9. As you wait for your classmates to finish the survey, look over your results. We will be discussing your top five strengths.
Assessment
Participation in presentation
Character Strength Survey results are emailed to both Mrs. Higdon and Ms. Colbert
Wednesday, August 17
Learning Goals
Activities/Instruction
***Create a poster that teachers character strengths - 5 pts
(Note: students were in groups and given a deliberately ambiguous task that forced them to rely on character strengths in order to accomplish it.) If you missed today, please create a high-quality educational poster on character strengths. See Ms. Colbert for clarification.
Assessment
Poster and group interaction
Tuesday, August 16
Learning Goals
Clarify personal goals and challenges to reaching those goals
Activities/Instruction
***Self-authoring - 50 points
Assessment
Good faith effort on writing prompt
Monday, August 15
Learning Goals
Clarify personal goals and challenges to reaching those goals
Activities/Instruction
Review last week's activities
***Class survey - https://goo.gl/forms/8FxJOCGlOBLJi3rB2 - 10 points
Goal setting and writing - the science behind self-authoring
Assessment
Writing assignment tomorrow
Friday, August 12
Learning Goals
Be aware of how and where to find scholarships
Analyze how earning benchmarks (current decision) could impact future self
Activities/Instruction
Register for an account at:
- ***www.FastWeb.com - 5 points
- ***www.Cappex.com - 5 points
Start checking the DCHS Guidance Scholarship page on a weekly basis
Research Kentucky scholarships at https://www.kheaa.com/website/kheaa/planning?main=1&display=ky_affordinged
Sign up for Remind:
***Class of 2017 - https://www.remind.com/join/scolbe - 5 points
***Reading, Writing, & Study Skills for College - https://www.remind.com/join/rwssc - 5 points
Thursday, August 11
Learning Goals
Be aware of how and where to find scholarships
Identify current obstacles to success and preliminarily design paths around those obstacles
Define and recognize fixed and growth mindsets
Activities/Instruction
Sign up for Remind
Sign up for Cappex and Fastweb; check Guidance scholarship page
Discuss benchmarks - what they are/aren't; why they matter
"Congratulations Son! You got yourself a piece of dirt!"
***Conditions in the soil - 8 points
Mindset
Assessment
Discussion
Soil condition checklist
Learning Goal
Visualize and depict a meaningful future
Activities/Instruction
Introductions
Overview of course
***Vision board - 10 points
Assessment
Vision Board
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Susan Colbert - Director of Dream Acquisition!
Email: Susan.Colbert@Daviess.KYschools.US
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DCHS.CCR/?fref=ts
Twitter: @ColbertSusan