Week 5 Final Reflection Assignment

I believe being aware of my learning patterns, skills, and experience will play a huge part in how successful I will be in receiving my degree and after receiving my degree. When it comes to all my classes I will be taking, I must use my Learning Patterns to be able to retain and learn the things necessary to complete my future class as well as when I start utilizing my degree.

The order I believe I should use the soft skills I have learned is Effective Communication, Strong Work Ethic, Leadership, Problem-Solving/Critical Thinking, and Collaborative Teamwork. The reason that I chose Effective Communication first is because you must know how to communicate properly to ask questions or get clarification on something in the right manner. I chose Strong Work Ethic second because you must be committed to your job as in doing everything proper, being on time, and knowing what you must do to get what needs done. I chose Leadership third because I feel like if you always are a leader or lead the way for others it shows how dedicated you are to what you are doing. I chose Problem-Solving/Critical Thinking fourth because I feel you must process the three soft skills I have already mentioned before you can figure out what needs to be done or accomplished. And finally, I chose Collaborative Teamwork. I chose it last because I feel in order to work with others as a team you must be able to show how serious your intentions are. You must be able to talk to people, solve a problem if it arises, and be able to take charge when needed.

I believe that I fall in Stage 3: The Beginning Thinker more often in this process. I feel that if I develop better thinking skills for my part of my life, I will have more positive outcomes than negative ones. The behavior that I chose is I read a variety of articles that represent differing views to help me develop an informed outlook. I believe the more information you can learn and think about helps you with your critical thinking. I believe when I use my critical thinking and take in as much information as I can on a certain subject, it gives me very good academic integrity because it is all information I have retained on my own.

I approached the Metacognitive forums by going through in my own head what I had previously learned. I don’t believe that it changed all that much because I still used the same approach each week just maybe a little more in depth each time. I believe that it added a lot of value to my learning process because it made me be more of a critical thinker. I believe by continuing to use these reflective sentence starters, it gives me something to start on a certain subject to get a deeper look at it and be able to understand it further.

The expectations that I gave myself at the beginning of this course was to get a grade of B or higher. To be able to understand at the end of the course what the course was really trying to teach me. I believe that I met these expectations. As of right now I am getting an A- and if I was asked questions about certain subjects in this course, I feel I could answer them without referring to anything just what my internal chatter will tell me. The advice that I would give someone else just starting this course would be to read and re-read all the information you can about your Learning patterns, how you learn, etc., because it is a big part of your everyday life not just for getting your degree but other life situations too. It was a course I really enjoyed because it teaches you a lot about you as a person.