Describe the potential value to you in designing a Personal Development Plan as you begin your academic journey.
Describe the potential value to you in designing a Personal Development Plan as you begin your academic journey.
Identify what you can do to set yourself up for success regarding the final project (e.g., setting up a study schedule, considering your long-term goals, consistently engaging each week).
Discuss any potential obstacles to plan for as you work toward the final project.
Your initial post should be a minimum of 150 words and is due by Day 3 (Thursday).?
Respond to Peers:
Review your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7 (Monday). Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words.
In your peer responses,
Comment on their thoughts about the final project.
What did you find interesting about your classmates’ comments on the final project that you did not consider?
What advice could you provide your classmates to help them overcome their obstacles?
ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success
Week 2 Discussion
Understanding Your Learning Patterns
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Make sure you have completed the Learning Connections Inventory (LCI).
Read Sections 2.1 through 2.6 of the textbook.
Read the Week 2 Lesson.
Complete the Learning Patterns in Action (Links to an external site.) interactive.
Learning Patterns in Action (Links to an external site.)
Reflect:
This discussion is a wonderful opportunity to understand how you approach tasks, situations, and people. You will accomplish this by describing how you use your Learning Patterns based on the results from the LCI assessment. This understanding is crucial to your growth as a learner. If you are aware of why you act, feel, and think the way you do, then you can be intentional about how you use your Learning Patterns.
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
List the numeric scores and level of use (Use First, Use as Needed, or Avoid) for each of the four Learning Patterns.
Identify whether you are a Dynamic, Bridge, or Strong-Willed Learner.
Describe how you use
Sequence personally, academically, or in the workplace.
Precision personally, academically, or in the workplace.
Technical Reasoning personally, academically, or in the workplace.
Confluence personally, academically, or in the workplace.
Describe how taking the LCI changed your understanding of your own learning. Include any surprises or how the results may have validated what you know about yourself.
ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success
Week 3 Discussion
DQ1 Reflective Thinking
Reflective thinking is an important learning strategy. It forces you to think about what you did well and where you fell short of meeting expectations. When you do that, you can learn and grow from experiences. In this forum, you will reflect on what you have learned from your efforts on the Week 2 paper. As you respond to your peers, you will review their work in Folio and exchange useful advice. This forum is an opportunity for peer-to-peer support; therefore, your instructor will not be participating in the forum but will be reading your responses and providing feedback within the gradebook.
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Make sure you uploaded your Week 2 Strengths and Opportunities for Improvement paper to Folio. For help getting a link to your project in Folio, view this guide: Getting a Link to a Project in Folio (Links to an external site.).
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
Post a link to your Week 2 Strengths and Opportunities for Improvement paper that you uploaded to Folio.
Identify a specific element of your Week 2 paper you would like targeted feedback from your classmates.
Describe what you plan to do differently based on what you found challenging as you planned and completed the Week 2 paper.
Explain how reflecting on your planning and performance of the Week 2 paper might help you in the development and achievement of your Personal Development Plan final project.
Your initial post should be a minimum of 150 words and is due by Day 3 (Thursday).
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Make an effort to select discussion posts from classmates you have not responded to before. Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words.
In your peer responses,
Review two of your classmates’ Strengths and Opportunities for Improvement papers in Folio.
Provide an observation, compliment, and recommendation about their goals, strengths, and areas of opportunities that could aid them in accomplishing their Personal Development Plan.
DQ2 Self-Regulation
Self-regulation is the ability to manage and control your thoughts, feelings, and actions as you pursue your goals. The process makes you active, intentional learners as you engage in a continuous cycle of planning, performing, and learning, so you can keep growing and making improvements.
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Review the Week 3 Lesson.
Read Sections 2.8, 3.1, and 3.2 of textbook.
Read What is Self-Regulated Learning? (Links to an external site.)
Complete the Steps of Metacognition (Links to an external site.) interactive activity and think about how you move from one step to another.
Steps of Metacognition (Links to an external site.)
Reflect:
Think about Vincent, Cari, and Duane from Section 3.1 in the textbook. They were trapped in unproductive behaviors that led to unfavorable results. For this discussion, reflect on a situation where you have been unproductive or unsuccessful personally, academically, or in the workplace. Think about the steps you took in planning and performing, and what you learned from the experience.
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
Describe a situation in which you did not succeed in reaching a personal, academic, or professional goal.
Why do you think you were unsuccessful in meeting the goal? Think about how your planning and performance contributed to the outcome.
Describe what you could have done differently in the planning and performance phases for better results or to have achieved your goal.
Explain the value of paying attention to each phase (planning, performing, and learning) toward achieving goals.
Your initial post should be a minimum of 250 words and is due on Day 3 (Thursday).
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Make an effort to select two different classmates. Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words.
In your peer responses,
Discuss something from your peers’ experiences that personally resonates with you, that provided you with a new or different perspective, or that you could apply to your own experience moving forward.
ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success
Week 4 Discussion
DQ1 Reflective Thinking
As you did in Week 3, here you will think about your learning experiences thus far and exchange ideas with fellow classmates. Your instructor will check in and award points in the gradebook, but will not participate in this forum. Use this opportunity to gain insight from fellow classmates and to expand your thinking.
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Make sure you uploaded your Week 3 PowerPoint presentation to Folio. For help getting a link to your project in Folio, view this guide: Getting a Link to a Project in Folio (Links to an external site.).
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
Post a link to your Week 3 PowerPoint that you uploaded to Folio.
Identify a specific element of your Week 3 PowerPoint you would like targeted feedback from your classmates.
Describe what you plan to do differently based on what you found challenging as you planned and completed the Week 3 PowerPoint.
Explain how reflecting on your planning and performance of the Week 3 PowerPoint might help you in the development and achievement of your Personal Development Plan final project.
Your initial post should be a minimum of 150 words and is due by Day 3 (Thursday).?
Respond to Peers:
Review your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words. Review your classmates’ Week 3 PowerPoint presentations found through their Folio links and address the following:
Recommend at least one additional strategy, tool, or resource you observed in the SSC that your peers did not mention that might be helpful to your peers and briefly describe the potential benefit.
DQ2 Growth Mindset
Do you believe that with effort and skill development you can achieve what you set your mind to? Or, do you believe that you are not in control of your abilities and get discouraged when mistakes are made? This discussion explores the concepts of growth and fixed mindsets as well as the role grit plays in goal achievement.
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Read Sections 1.4, 1.5, and the conclusion of Chapter 1 of the textbook.
Read the webpage article 25 Simple Ways to Develop a Growth Mindset (Links to an external site.).
Watch Grit, by Angela Duckworth | An Animated Summary | Between the Lines Animations (Links to an external site.).
Reflect:
Review these common fixed mindset statements:
Either I’m good at something or I’m not.
I can’t learn now; it’s too late.
There’s no point in trying if I’m going to fail.
I take feedback as a personal attack.
I always struggle with this task.
I can’t make this any better; it is what it is.
I already know everything I need to know.
I know that I can’t do this.
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
Choose one of the common fixed mindset statements listed above, and describe a situation in which either you or someone you know has demonstrated this fixed mindset.
Identify two strategies from the 25 Simple Ways to Develop a Growth Mindset article, and explain how they could have been applied to the situation you described above.
Explain the value of having a growth mindset and grit towards achieving goals.
Your initial post should be a minimum of 250 words and is due on Day 3 (Thursday).
Respond to Peers:
Review your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Make an effort to select two different classmates than you have responded to before. Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words.
In your peer responses,
Provide an alternative growth mindset strategy for your peers to consider in relation to the situation shared in their posts.
Address their thoughts about grit and growth mindset and how each may lead to goal attainment.
ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success
Week 5 Discussion
DQ1 Reflective Thinking
This forum is the final opportunity to engage directly with fellow classmates in a personally meaningful way. Here, you will reflect more deeply on the importance of having a strong human support system as you work towards your goals. You will also examine more closely how having a capacity to overcome obstacles contributes to one’s grit and ability to achieve success.
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Read the Week 5 Lesson.
Read The Importance of a Social Support Network in Achieving Your Goals (Links to an external site.).
Watch The Boost Students Need to Overcome Obstacles (Links to an external site.).
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
Share one idea from the article listed above that personally resonates with you and that you could adopt to help you reach your goals.
Discuss who will serve as a source of support for you as you work toward the goals identified in your Personal Development Plan. Consider the person(s) you identified in Week 3 for the PowerPoint presentation.
Discuss one personally relevant connection or new idea you gained by watching the TEDTalk from Anindya Kundu listed above.
Your initial post should be a minimum of 150 words and is due by Day 3 (Thursday).
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words. In your peer responses,
DQ2 Skills for Career Success
Soft skills are a combination of personality traits, habits, attitudes, and interpersonal skills that people use to work well with others, perform tasks, and navigate their environment. Employers value soft skills because it is important for employees to meaningfully interact and engage with people, tasks, and processes within their working environment.
Prepare:
Before attempting this discussion,
Read the Week 5 Lesson.
Read Sections 5.3 and 5.4 of the textbook.
Read What Are The Top 10 Soft Skills For The Future Of Work? (Links to an external site.)
Explore Ashford University Career Services and Alumni Relations (Links to an external site.) website, focusing on the following webpages:
Resources by College (Links to an external site.)
Self-Assessment, Career Exploration & Planning (Links to an external site.)
Resume, CV, and Cover Letter Development (Links to an external site.)
Job Search, Networking, & Interview Preparation (Links to an external site.)
Military, Veteran, & Federal Employment (Links to an external site.)
Reflect:
This discussion is a great opportunity to think about career readiness factors. You will explore how you can apply specific soft skills and find resources on the Career Services and Alumni Relations website that will help you attain your goals.
Write:
In your initial discussion forum post,
Prioritize four soft skills in the order that you think will be most important to your professional success.
Describe how each of the four soft skills can support you in your profession. For example, you can say, “As a business owner, effective communication will be important because my success will depend on … ”
Share two resources from the Career Services and Alumni Relations website, and explain how they can support you in pursuit of your career goals.
Your initial post should be a minimum of 250 words and is due by Day 3 (Thursday).
Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by Day 7. Make an effort to select two different classmates than you have responded to before. Each peer response should be a minimum of 50 words.
In your peer responses,
Consider the soft skills they identified as critical to their professional success. How are yours similar or different? What advice can you give on how they can further develop the soft skills they identified?
Recommend one other resource from Career Services and Alumni Relations that may help your peers as they pursue their goals.
ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success
Week 1 Assignment
Creating Your SMART Goals
Each week of this course, you will work on pieces of your final project. This week you will work on developing academic and professional SMART goals and reflecting on their value. SMART goals must be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. This assignment is meant to stimulate your thinking about what you want to achieve, so you can create your Personal Development Plan by Week 5.
Prepare:
Read Section 1.1 of the textbook.
Read SMART Goals: Definition and Examples (Links to an external site.).
Review the grading rubric (Links to an external site.) for this assignment.
Review the Week 1 Model Assignment. (Links to an external site.)
Watch the SMART Goals (Links to an external site.)
SMART Goals (Links to an external site.)
Reflect:
Think about what you want to accomplish as a college student as you craft an academic SMART goal. While earning credits and getting good grades is important, so is the act of learning and applying your learning in meaningful ways. You can still set a professional SMART goal even if you’re not currently working in your dream profession yet. In fact, that’s why it’s important to set goals about that now. If you’re not sure what you want to do professionally, consider crafting a goal related to your role as an employee such as work ethic, time management, and other work-related responsibilities.
Write:
To complete your assignment,
Download the SMART Goals downloadtemplate and respond to each section. Save the completed template to your computer and upload it to Waypoint. Be sure to double-check that it was properly saved and uploaded successfully.
In the SMART Goals template, you will
Write an academic SMART goal.
Explain how your academic goal is specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.
Write a professional SMART goal.
Reflect on the value of SMART goals.
ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success
Week 2 Assignment
Strengths and Opportunities for Improvement
Understanding your strengths and your areas of opportunity for improvement is invaluable to your growth. Your strengths are often behaviors, characteristics, and skills that are perceived positively. Doing these things well is advantageous as you work towards your goals. Understanding those behaviors, characteristics, and skills that you need to work on developing is equally important. They can be hurdles as you work towards goals, so they present an opportunity for improvement.
For this assignment, you will assess the strengths you already possess that can help you meet your goals and identify your opportunities for improvement. These elements are part of the Week 5 Final Project: Personal Development Plan and will be shared with your peers in the Reflective Thinking discussion forum next week.
Prepare:
Prior to beginning work on this assignment,
Read the External and Internal Motivation (Links to an external site.)webpage article.
Review your LCI assessment results.
Review tables 2.1 to 2.4 in Chapter 2 of the textbook for descriptions of each Learning Pattern.
Review the grading rubric (Links to an external site.).
Review the Week 2 Model Assignment (Links to an external site.).
Review the goals you created in the Week 1 assignment.
Be sure to review the feedback you received from your instructor on the Week 1 Creating your SMART Goals assignment, and use it to revise your goals, if necessary.
Need help? To learn how to access your assignment feedback, watch this video: Accessing Your Waypoint Feedback (Links to an external site.).
Write:
In a paper that is at least two pages in length, write about the following (be sure to add details, explanations, and examples to support your ideas):
SMART Goals (one paragraph):
Restate the two SMART goals you developed in Week 1.
Describe your motivation for pursuing each of these goals.
Three Strengths (one to two paragraphs):
Discuss three strengths that you possess that can help you reach your SMART goals.
Include examples to support each strength you identify.
Tip: Consider your overall strengths, or how your Learning Patterns can be a strength or an advantage. Even if your score is not Use-First, it could still be perceived a strength depending on the situation.
Three Areas of Opportunity (one to two paragraphs):
Discuss three areas of opportunities for improvement (i.e., obstacles or challenges) you must address to reach your goals.
Include examples to support each opportunity for improvement you identify.
Tip: Consider overall challenges that you face, or how your Learning Patterns can create challenges or be a disadvantage. Even if your score is Use-First, it could still be perceived as an opportunity for improvement depending on the situation.
ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success
Week 3 Assignment
Learning Strategies, Tools, and Resources
In Week 2, you identified your strengths and opportunities for improvement based on your Learning Patterns. The next step in your Personal Development Plan is to identify sources of support to help you achieve the goals. For this assignment, you will explore the tools, strategies, and resources located in the Student Support Center (SSC), and apply them to each of your opportunities for improvement as you work towards meeting your goals.
Prepare:
Prior to beginning work on this assignment,
Complete the Student Support Center quiz.
Review the areas of strengths and opportunities for improvement you identified in the Week 2 assignment.
Select and read one article from the two listed below:
This is How to Increase the Odds of Reaching Your Goals by 95% (Links to an external site.)
What is an Accountability Partner –And How to Choose Yours (Links to an external site.)
Review How to Make a PowerPoint Presentation (Links to an external site.).
Review the Week 3 Model Assignment (Links to an external site.).
Review the grading rubric (Links to an external site.) for this assignment.
Reflect:
Another important factor of goal achievement is sharing your goals and plan with others. Think of a family member, friend, colleague, or mentor who could serve as an accountability partner or a sounding board while you work on the academic and professional goals identified in your Personal Development Plan. Consider the following:
Who might you count on when things get tough?
Who will help you celebrate when you make progress?
Write:
Construct a six-slide PowerPoint presentation that could be shared with the person or persons you will identify as a source of support. You can create your PowerPoint from scratch, or download and use this template as a guide: Week 3 PowerPoint template download. Use the bullet points below as a guide for each of your slides.
Slide 1: Include the title of the assignment, your name, the school’s name, the course code and name (i.e., ASH101: Launchpad: Developing Skills and Strategies for Success), your instructor’s name, and the assignment due date.
Slide 2: List the three areas of opportunities for improvement that you identified in the Week 2 Strengths and Opportunities for Improvement assignment.
Note: Be sure to review your feedback on the Week 2 paper and make any necessary revisions.
Slide 3: Identify the three strategies, tools, or resources that you explored in the SSC.
Slide 4: Explain how you will use the first strategy, tool, or resource from the SSC to address the areas of opportunities for improvement you discussed in the Week 2 paper.
Describe the tool, strategy, or resource.
Describe what area of opportunity the tool will address.
Explain how you could use this tool to help you address your area of opportunity.
Slide 5: Explain how you will use the second strategy, tool, or resource from the SSC to address the areas of opportunities for improvement you discussed in the Week 2 paper.
Describe the tool, strategy, or resource.
Describe what area of opportunity the tool will address.
Explain how you could use this tool to help you address your area of opportunity.
Slide 6: Explain how you will use the third strategy, tool, or resource from the SSC to address the areas of opportunities for improvement you discussed in the Week 2 paper.
Describe the tool, strategy, or resource.
Describe what area of opportunity the tool will address.
Explain how you could use this tool to help you address your area of opportunity.
ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success
Week 5 Assignment
Personal Development Plan
For your final project, you have an exciting opportunity to apply all that you learned throughout this class as you create your own Personal Development Plan. Why a Personal Development Plan? Personal development expert Jim Rohn says, “When you look at successful people, you will almost always discover a plan behind their success. It is the foundation for success” (Rohn, as cited in Valchanova, 2018). To achieve your goals and dreams, figuring it out as you go along is not the most effective approach. A personal development plan helps you identify where you are headed, and how you’ll get there, with specifics and intentionality (Valchanova, 2018).
This final project provides an opportunity to create a workable plan for your academic and career-focused goals. In this Personal Development Plan, you will create professional and academic SMART goals, and reflect on the impact of mindfulness and motivation on achieving your goals. Note that this final project will be uploaded in your Folio and be included as part of your earned points when the assignment is graded. Pay attention to the Folio instructions below and the grading rubric.
Prepare:
Prior to beginning work on this assignment,
Reflect on what you have learned about yourself as a result of this class.
View the Week 5 Model Assignment (Links to an external site.).
Review the grading rubric (Links to an external site.)for this assignment.
Watch the Personal Development Plan Overview (Links to an external site.)
Personal Development Plan Overview (Links to an external site.)
Write:
To complete your final project,
Download the Personal Development Plan template downloadand complete each section. Save the completed template to your computer.
First, upload your project to Folio and paste the link to your Folio project as a comment in Waypoint (see the Add Final Project to Folio section below for instructions).
Next, submit your final project to Waypoint for evaluation. Be sure to double-check that it was properly saved and uploaded successfully.
In your Personal Development Plan template, you will complete the following:
SMART Goals:
Write a SMART goal related to your academic development or refinement.
Write a SMART goal related to your professional development or refinement.
Strengths and Skills:
Describe three skills or strengths that can help you achieve your academic development goal.
Describe three skills or strengths that can help you achieve your professional development goal.
Challenges and Obstacles:
Describe two challenges, threats, or obstacles that could get in the way of achieving your academic
Describe two challenges, threats, or obstacles that could get in the way of achieving your professional
Action Plan:
Describe three specific next steps to take to achieve your academic goal within your timeframe.
Describe three specific next steps to take to achieve your professional goal within your timeframe.
Support Resources:
Describe two resources or supports that could help you achieve your academic
Describe two resources or supports that could help you achieve your professional
Monitoring Progress:
Describe one plan, strategy, or tool you will use to monitor or measure your progress toward your academic
Describe one plan, strategy, or tool you will use to monitor or measure your progress toward your professional
Written Reflection:
Explain how being mindful of your?strengths, skills, and?potential challenges or obstacles can impact your personal, academic, and professional growth in a minimum of 200 words.
Describe how having grit, integrity, and a growth mindset contributes to your goal attainment in a minimum of 200 words.
ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success
Week 2 Quiz
Question 1The Writing Center charges a small fee for some services such as 24/7 Writing Tutoring, Paper Review, and Grammarly.
True
False
Question 2An appropriate tone is important to use in professional writing in order to:
Establish credibility
Check grammar
Establish credibility and check grammar
None of the above
Question 3Writing skills do NOT shape how others perceive your abilities as a student or employee.
True
False
Question 4The Writing Basics Refresher (Links to an external site.) webpage can help you with your writing if you are out of practice or haven’t written in a while.
True
False
Question 5Which of the following should be incorporated in professional emails and academic discussions?
Specific language
Appropriate tone
Correct grammar, punctuation, and spelling
All of the above
ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success
Week 3 Quiz
Question 1Identify a strategy, tool, or resource you explored in the SSC.
Question 2Identify a second strategy, tool, or resource you explored in the SSC.
Question 3Identify a third strategy, tool, or resource you explored in the SSC.
ASH101 Developing Skills & Strategies for Success
Week 4 Quiz
Question 1According to the Ashford Catalog, a student who commits an act of academic dishonesty may face disciplinary action, including but not limited to: failure to receive credit on an academic assignment, course failure, rewrite of an assignment, reflective essays, coaching sessions, suspension, and/or expulsion from the University.
True
False
Question 2Professional integrity leads to:
Being successful at work
Having a reputation for honesty and trust
Being reliable
All the above
Question 3The Ashford University Catalog defines plagiarism as:
Forging documents to be admitted to school
Lying about an illness to get a grade changed
Representing the words or ideas of another as one’s own in any academic exercise
Taking courses at multiple colleges at the same time
Question 4Academic integrity leads to:
Adding value to your degree
Presenting ourselves well to others
Developing honest and trustworthy approaches to work and life
All the above
Question 5The concept of “academic voice” refers to:
Using your own voice/words to present ideas, facts, and arguments
Using your own voice on a recording rather than a professional actor
Using someone else’s ideas as your own
Copying an instructor’s or other researcher’s work
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