Instructions: After you watched the Life Lesson 4 video, answer the following questions in your journal. If you are the hero of your own story, what obstacles or challenges have you encountered? How have you worked to overcome those obstacles or challenges? What are the things that distract you from your goal or goals? What can you do to eliminate or minimize those distractions? (Be specific) Who are…
Instructions: After you watched the Life Lesson 4 video, answer the following questions in your journal. Why is it important for people to set goals for themselves? What is more important, setting small goals or large goals? Why? What are two to three things people might do to avoid procrastinating? What are two or three goals that you have for yourself? What is the most important of…
Instructions: After you watched the Life Lesson 4 video, answer the following questions in your journal. What piece of clothing that you own or have worn makes you feel amazing and powerful when you put it on? Why What class, job, or career do you think might be a good fit for you or something you’d like to try? Why? Why would doing things you loathe help you…
Instructions: After you watched the Life Lesson 3 video, answer the following questions in your journal. Not only do flowers blossom, people do, too. In your life, how have you matured or developed in a promising or healthy way? What else blossoms, matures, or develops in a promising or healthy way? Choose an interest or passion you have. What would it take to have this interest or passion grow?…
Instructions: After you watched the Life Lesson 1 video, answer the following questions in your journal. If being defined by your gender, ethnicity, accomplishments, mistakes, or other characteristics can hold you back, what can push you forward in a positive way? What person do you know or have you heard of who rises above “labels”? Why do you think so? How does a real friend behave? How can…
Instructions: After you watched the Life Lesson 1 video, answer the following questions in your journal. What are some definitions of the word “matter”? What do those definitions have to do with you? Besides writing in your journal, what could you do that might help you understand yourself better? How do your “I AM” words represent who you are? If you were not able to come up…
Instructions: After you watched the Introduction video, answer the following questions in your journal. Can people change for the better? Why or why not? When you look at your friends, family, or other people you know, what things do you observe that hold them back from achieving all that they can or want? What holds you back? What are the two or three most important things to consider…
Think about the Bloom’s Taxonomy pyramid. As we’ve learned, there are various levels of cognitive activities ranging from: Remembering at the bottom, followed by Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, and then Creating at the top. Considering these levels, which level of cognitive course activities do you believe to be most important for student success? Why do you believe this?
Think about affective learning objectives and how they might relate to your class, or another class taught at your school. How can these learning objectives fit into a class or program? Some things to consider are: -What benefit do these have to students? -How can these work with other types of performance objectives? -Are these useful for courses that are teaching to examinations? -How might these help with respect to post-graduation…
As we begin to discuss and understand more about performance objectives, this first journal prompt will focus on some of the benefits. We know, and will further discuss, that performance objectives are very useful when it comes to course development and ensuring everything is properly aligned. But, let’s instead look at performance objectives from a student perspective. How can performance objectives benefit students? Think about some ideas that you may have…
