EL5033: Module 5 Capstone Experience Assignment--Individual Student Profile Template This is the first of your last two assignments of the term, Everyone! You're almost there. Note that ACE Administration has given us TWO written assignments for our Module 5 Week: 1.) Your Module 5 Capstone Experience Individual Student Profile and 2.) Your Module 5 Reflection on Safety and Support Since they are separate written assignments, you are provided a Template Toward Optimal Performance to follow for them BOTH. Remember, you are submitting two separate Module 5 written assignments before 11:59pm on the Sunday night that ends Module 5. Absolutely no assignments will be accepted after this deadline. You definitely want work to score 100% on these, your last two assignments of our term! Module 5 Assignment Title: Individual Student Profile Your Task: • Read these requirements carefully. • Compose your personal philosophy of learning based upon your thought and experiences at this point in your career. The Individual Student Profile, your last assignment for our course, contains your personal philosophy of learning and your own professional goals statements (3-5), which will state your intent as a graduate professional. For each goal statement, you will describe how the goal translates into actions you intend to use in your professional setting. • A personal philosophy of learning is an internal inventory of what you believe about learning and why, for yourself and for others. A philosophy is expressed outwardly through decisions which are often expressed in goals. Your Individual Student Profile will serve as a baseline for your final selfassessment of your professional growth and competency in your final Capstone Experience Paper. • Then, present and clarify three to five personal professional goals within three to five well-developed paragraphs. These are professional goals you have decided you will seek to accomplish during your time here at ACE. You may be as broad or narrow as you feel will best assist your leadership career once you complete your study at ACE. You'll want to frame your goals within the time during which you are in our graduate program. By the time you graduate, you want to have accomplished these professional goals. You want your schooling during your time here with ACE to be a type of "internship" in itself (in many cases you'll make internship projects of some of the tasks that comprise the goals you describe here). Tips: Take a look at all your courses coming down the line. Look at all the needs of your school over the next year or two. Look at the skills likely to come in handy for you as leader in education at ANY 1 school you may find yourself. Look at your own personal weaknesses and the skills you know you will need to excel as a leader. Resource: Here's a short reading and template that I believe will assist you in sorting out your thoughts for your professional growth-- Writing A Professional Development Plan – Example & Template. https://www.highspeedtraining.co.uk/hub/professional-development-plan/ • "I need references for content reflecting my own thinking?" Absolutely----this is the most common form of graduate writing. In this assignment, you will be creating a philosophy of learning based on all you know, have read, and have experienced, and you will be creating professional goals of your own personal choosing. You will be justifying or supporting your professional goals and philosophy of learning with support from the literature! Notice that, as always in our assignments, you need a minimum of three different correctly-formatted APA references. • May I exceed that asked of me? While you must address the questions of each Template, don't allow yourself to be constrained to ONLY the questions posed there. I urge you to feel free to 'think outside of the box' as you reflect on new and novel approaches to solving the common problems we encounter each day as teachers. You may always move beyond the questions proposed here. While the Template delineates much of your formatting, never let it constrain your discussion. You may always submit more written content, but not less than that stipulated in your Template. Document Formatting Guidelines for Your Profile: • Composition: In keeping with APA parameters, you will include at minimum the following in traditional APA textual style--• Introduction ---one well-developed paragraph (6-8 sentences) minimum. • Body --- four well-developed paragraphs (each (6-8 sentences) minimum (your philosophy and three professional goals minimum). • Conclusion --- one well-developed paragraph (6-8 sentences) minimum. • Line Spacing: Utilize the double spacing of the formal APA paper as demonstrated in this sample APA document: http://my.woodbury.edu/Faculty/Writing/WPRD/Research%20Writing%20and%20APA%20Style/A PA6thWritingStyleSamplePaperV8.pdf • Headings: You're going to be accurate in your use of APA headings for these documents. Use these Purdue Owl guidelines specifically---- https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/16/ . Utilize as headings within your submission, the prescribed headings and subheadings highlighted in green within the guidelines below. When I review your paper, I expect to see ALL of the greenhighlighted headings and subheadings below on your paper, with a 'well-developed' responsive paragraph of 6-8 sentences minimum below each of the headings (or 3-4 sentences minimum if a 'brief' paragraph is required). A Tip To Format Your Headings Accurately: Your green highlighted headings here are all Level 1 and should be Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Headings. You'll repeat your Running Header as the Title of your paper (see page 3 of your sample paper): http://my.woodbury.edu/Faculty/Writing/WPRD/Research%20Writing%20and%20APA%20Style/APA6thWritingStyleSamplePaperV8.pdf Then, after your Introduction (no heading), you'll put your first Level 1 heading, "Philosophy",.... Your next heading, "Goal 1", will also be Centered, Boldface,...etc. All of your headings will be formatted the same--Centered, Boldface, Uppercase and Lowercase Headings. • Quantity Requirements: Respond thoroughly, at minimal as directed by the yellow-highlighted, red-bolded requirements below. A "well-developed" paragraph, for these purposes, is regarded as one containing six to eight 2 carefully-written, clear, fully-descriptive sentences. You may always provide more, but not less, than the stipulated number of paragraphs, the stipulated word count---so never feel constrained. • Running Heads: You will utilize running heads in proper APA-format using our assignment title: "Individual Student Profile." If you need assistance with proper formatting of your running heads, see the following: See sample APA-formatted running heads here:   APA Sample Paper - Purdue Online Writing Lab http://my.woodbury.edu/Faculty/Writing/WPRD/Research%20Writing%20and%20APA%20Style/APA6thWritingStyleSamplePaperV8.pdf • Title/References Page: You will provide both a Title page and a References page. Required Title Page Format: Use the following APA formatting for your Title Page---- http://my.woodbury.edu/Faculty/Writing/WPRD/Research%20Writing%20and%20APA%20Style/APA6thWritingStyleSamplePaperV8.pdf Required Reference Page Format: Use the following APA formatting for your References Page---- http://my.woodbury.edu/Faculty/Writing/WPRD/Research%20Writing%20and%20APA%20Style/APA6thWritingStyleSamplePaperV8.pdf http://www.apastyle.org/learn/faqs/index.aspx • Reference Formatting: As stated above, you must have a minimum of three different correctly- formatted APA references for this assignment. Keep in mind that you must cite and reference your use of any direct words used from a source, and any paraphrased information or ideas you are presenting from a source (What must I reference?) This could easily mean that you will exceed the minimum requirement of three APA references. Of course, everything cited must be referenced. https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/ and https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/03/ Your APA Resources 6th Edition You'll want to print out these 'Cheatsheets' to assist you in proper APA formatting of your references throughout our course. Though you'll soon commit these commonly-used source formats to memory, you'll want to hang onto these sheets throughout your graduate study. • • • • • • • Basic APA Guidelines You Must Know Beforehand: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/05/ Periodicals: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/07/ Books: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/08/ Electronic Publications: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/ Non-Print Sources: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/11/ Government/Legal Sources: https://libraries.indiana.edu/guide-citing-us-government-publications For all APA formatting issues, conduct search here: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ • • Official APA website for All APA matters: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/faqs/index.aspx (6th Edition) Bibliographical Reference Formatting: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/faqs/format-bibliography.aspx Best Sample APA Documents on the Web:  http://my.woodbury.edu/Faculty/Writing/WPRD/Research%20Writing%20 and%20APA%20Style/APA6thWritingStyleSamplePaperV8.pdf  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20090212013008_560.pdf Single Most Helpful APA Article! How to Cite Something You Found on a Website in APA Style This entire table, including the template portion below, is intended only to organize your assignment requirements. Though you may feel free to provide tables or charts in your analysis, please do NOT present your written essay treatment within a table. Maximum TurnItIn Score: You want your TII scores to be no higher than 24%. Template Toward Optimal Performance: Individual Student Profile (In your document, use the headings/subheadings highlighted in green) Quantity Requirements Headings---You're going to be accurate in your use of APA headings for this document. You'll provide these headings for each of your Body Sections and your Conclusion (no heading for your Introduction). Use Purdue Owl specifically as your guide to precise positioning and formatting of your headings: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/16/ . 3 Final Note: While you must address the required questions of your Template, don't allow yourself to be constrained to ONLY the questions posed here. I urge you to feel free to 'think outside of the box' as you reflect on new and novel approaches to these issues. You may always submit more written content, but not less than that stipulated by your Template. Minimum of one well-developed paragraph (six to eight clear, fullydescriptive sentences) Remember, 6 Introduction (Do not label your Introduction in strict keeping with APA requirements.) What is your intent in this document? Minimum of one well-developed paragraph (six to eight clear, fullydescriptive sentences) Remember, 6 Personal Philosophy of Learning After the introduction, your personal philosophy would follow, describing aspects of your own learning, and if you are an educator, how you see learning as an aspect of teaching. What critical components are essential for the learning process to be successful? At this point, the instructions call for a thesis statement. sentences do not guarantee that your paragraph is well-developed---Use scholarly judgment on the extent to which you have fully explored your topic. You may need more sentences or additional paragraph/s. sentences do not guarantee that your paragraph is well-developed---Use scholarly judgment on the extent to which you have fully explored your topic. You may need more sentences or additional paragraph/s. This portion of the profile is unique to your thinking, addressing basic tenets of your belief. Learning, by its nature, involves change. How does this aspect factor into your philosophy? Asking yourself questions or making statements is one approach to creating a philosophy. Even though you may have done this numerous times, defining what you think today is important to measure how you might think tomorrow. Your personal philosophy of learning will require some deep introspection on your part. It is truly your own system of beliefs. I can't guide you as easily on this as I have on your other assignments. You'll want to look at the way you've approached learning and teaching over the length of your stay in education. Think of how you have personally evolved, and the thoughts, observations, and experiences that have impacted your perspectives toward teaching from the time you began your first teaching assignment through today. What can you take away from your own knowledge and experiences that might serve as tenets of learning that could help you and/or fellow teachers in instructing others? This assignment will serve as a 'starting point' or baseline for assisting you in your selfassessment of your learning for your capstone course----to be taken at the end of your program of study. You need not use what you've learned in this specific course for this assignment. To stimulate your thought, you may want to view descriptions of your upcoming courses: http://www.ace.edu/academics/master-of-education/med-in-educational-leadership (Click the 'Course Detail' Tab near bottom of page.) Minimum of one well-developed paragraph (six to eight clear, fullydescriptive sentences) Remember, 6 sentences do not guarantee that your paragraph is well-developed---Use scholarly judgment on the extent to which you have fully explored your topic. You may need more sentences or additional paragraph/s. Goal Statement One: Short Goal Descriptor Phrase Here's a one-page reading that can assist you-- How To Set Meaningful Professional Goals Our directions ask for three to five professional goal statements. These can be simple or complex but either approach should welcome the ability to measure accomplishment. If fluency in another language is a goal, we measure fluency by an action. Considering how you might measure growth towards you goal is one way of helping to define the goal itself. You'll want to frame your professional goals as those you will attempt to accomplish during the time you are in our graduate program. By graduation, you want to have accomplished them all. You want your schooling during your time here with ACE to be a 4 type of "internship" in itself (in many cases you'll make internship projects of some of the tasks that comprise the professional goals you describe here). Minimum of one well-developed paragraph (six to eight clear, fullydescriptive sentences) Remember, 6 Goal Statement Two: Short Goal Descriptor Phrase Various reasons exist for wanting to pursue a graduate degree. Be honest. Be thoughtful. Each goal statement should be reflective of what you actually want to achieve. These define what you are willing to accomplish to reach graduation, much like stepping stones help to cross a stream to reach the other side. Minimum of one well-developed paragraph (six to eight clear, fullydescriptive sentences) Remember, 6 Goal Statement Three: Short Goal Descriptor Phrase You'll put your third goal here. Provide enough elaboration for each of your goals to clarify precisely what you are seeking to accomplish and why. sentences do not guarantee that your paragraph is well-developed---Use scholarly judgment on the extent to which you have fully explored your topic. You may need more sentences or additional paragraph/s. sentences do not guarantee that your paragraph is well-developed---Use scholarly judgment on the extent to which you have fully explored your topic. You may need more sentences or additional paragraph/s. Goal Statement Four (Optional) : Short Goal Descriptor Phrase (same quantity requirement) Goal Statement Five (Optional) : Short Goal Descriptor Phrase (same quantity requirement) Minimum of one well-developed paragraph (six to eight clear, fullydescriptive sentences) Remember, 6 sentences do not guarantee that your paragraph is well-developed---Use scholarly judgment on the extent to which you have fully explored your topic. You may need more sentences or additional paragraph/s. Conclusion Discuss your overall conclusions as you leave this assignment. • What challenges do you anticipate along the road to accomplishing your goals? • What resources do you anticipate having at your disposal? • Has this process of constructing your philosophy of learning and formulating your professional goals enlightened you in any way? Total Document: Minimum of six well-developed paragraphs Before Submission: Double-spacing? Well-developed paragraphs contain 6-8 highly descriptive sentences? APA references properly formatted? 24% maximum TII score? Now, Class, you have all you need for an optimal Individual Student Profile submission. You'll find answers to most of your questions within these materials of your Assignment Packet. Still, please feel free to drop me any questions at all if anything confuses you or you simply want to share your thoughts with me! Marsha Phelps, MBA, EdD American College of Education Your Course Instructor Marsha.Phelps@ace.edu 5
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