Ps1001 wk3 stu_nov2012
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This document provides guidance for students on developing college success skills at Ohio Christian University. It includes a week three devotional on critical thinking, explaining that critical thinking allows for informed decisions rather than correct ones. Students are assigned several learning activities, including discussing a passage on critical thinking, creating a Christian action plan, setting goals, and using a visual kanban board to manage tasks. The overall document aims to help students improve self-awareness, critical thinking, and time management skills.
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- 1. College Success Skills: Student Guide 1 Ohio Christian University 1476 Lancaster Pike Circleville, OH 43113 Telephone: 740.477.7700 Fax: 740.477.7854 College Success Skills PS1001 Week Three Copyright 2012 Ohio Christian University. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or by any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Ohio Christian University unless such copying is expressly permitted by federal copyright law. Address inquiries to: College of Adult and Graduate Studies, Ohio Christian University, 1476 Lancaster Pike, Circleville, OH 43113
- 2. College Success Skills: Student Guide 2 Table of Contents (Hold Ctrl and click appropriate heading to immediately move to that section.) Week Three Devotional................................................................................................................3
- 3. College Success Skills: Student Guide 3 Week Three Devotional Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. I Corinthians 14:20 Critical thinking is a concept that will be discussed, explored, and applied a lot throughout your collegiate experience in order to prepare you for a lifetime of informed choices. Notice that the term used is informed, not correct. Critical thinking does not promise a perfect life with all the correct decisions. In many situations there is not a perfect decision; however, in most situations there is a better decision due to understanding the ramifications of each decision. Paul is trying to explain that we do not have to be na誰ve to avoid evil. In fact, we must be ever present in our critical thinking in order to glorify God.
- 4. College Success Skills: Student Guide 4 Week Three Introduction As this week is strongly focused on critical thinking, we will also explore how we manage our relationship with Christ, as well as discovering methods to become visually aware of our tasks. All of these activities focus on raising self-awareness, which is essential for the lifelong learner. Learning Activity #1: Week Three Devotional Applying biblical perspectives throughout our learning process is an important aspect for recognizing and pursing personal Christian development. Read the current weeks devotional, and consider the importance of critical thinking in our everyday lives and decisions. Post your thoughts in the discussion forum titled Week Three Devotional. Feel free to respond to other students thoughts that enlighten you. Objective 1: Explain critical thinking and its personal application. Critical thinking is a key component to the success of any field of interest. Some of the environments or forces beyond your control may make life very discouraging and hopeless, as it seemed for Daniel and the Jews, but the ability to think on your feet, and thinking through consequences of actions will always provide hope for the future. Critical thinking, however, does not come naturally as it is a trained thought process. Life and experience teach us to think ahead, but college provides an environment for you to explore your thoughts and the ramifications of those thoughts through writing and discussion. As you are able to think more critically within your field of study, these abilities will become natural. Learning Activity #2: Critical Thinking Discussion Download and read Supplemental Reading Critical Thinking from Course Documents. Complete the following questions and instructions. 錚 Review the Critical Thinking Rubric. As you read it, consider a specific situation recently where critical thinking was necessary. How did the experience match up to this rubric? 錚 Can one stand on the truth of Scripture and still think critically? 錚 What are consequences of not thinking critically? Post your response in the discussion forum titled Critical Thinking Discussion. Use the Discussion rubric to guide your posted response and responses to other posts.
- 5. College Success Skills: Student Guide 5 Objective 2: Develop a Christian action plan. While its vastly important to understand yourself, its equally as important to understand how Gods Plan is related to you. Many people feel lost in a 10,000 piece jigsaw puzzle, never to be put in the right place, or even worse, to not be effective. However, knowing Gods will gives us the motivation and understanding of our connection in that huge puzzle. Ways to help us align ourselves with God include creating our own Christian Faith Statements and Action Plans. Learning Activity #3: Christian Action Plan Download the document titled Christian Action Plan document from Course Documents. Complete the document, which will raise your self-awareness for maintaining your relationship with God. Submit the completed exercise to your facilitator as an attachment in the drop box titled Christian Action Plan. Objective 3: Develop self-awareness through the process of goal setting. Mindset is everything. It is how we think, the source of our assumptions, and the outlook we have on life. We should be extremely honest with identifying our mindset, because we can mold it to what we want, if we know with what we are working. As Christians, we have a certain level of assumptions in connection to effective personal management. Within the context of those assumptions, it is essential to be self-aware. Evaluating your mindset in conjunction with the process of goal setting is an excellent method to raise self-awareness, and thus develop room for improvement. Learning Activity #4: Goal Setting Exercise Download the document titled Goal Setting from Course Documents. Based off the reading, complete the goal setting process. You are encouraged to simply complete the document provided. Submit the completed exercise to your facilitator as an attachment in the drop box titled Goal Setting Exercise. Objective 4: Demonstrate the impact of using a visual control board. It is a rare individual who loves to serve and complete tasks just for the act of completing tasks. There needs to be a goal or motivation behind the task. The studies this week will introduce ways to stay motivated with the tasks.
- 6. College Success Skills: Student Guide 6 Meanwhile we have a biblical application here where God designated tasks through Moses. Guess what we will never escape tasks! The important issue is to not avoid tasks, but to embrace what we have been tasked with joy and motivation, working to produce the best possible result for God. Learning Activity #5: Kanban Exercise Read the following links to better understand the purpose and goal of kanban board management. Click through the links provided within the page below. http://www.personalkanban.com/pk/personal-kanban-101/ Click through the slides provided within the page below. http://www.slideshare.net/ourfounder/personal-kanban-101 You have the option of building a personal kanban board either physically (whiteboard and post-it notes) or technologically (LeanKitKanban.com). If you select the physical method, below are a few options for you to consider. 1. Large paper with small post-it notes. 2. Small or large white board with post-it notes. 3. Whichever one you use, take a photo of the board at the end of the week. 4. Create a board for your schoolwork for the remainder of this course. 5. Insert the digital photo of your board once youve added the assignments. If you select the technological method, follow the directions provided below. 1. Go to LeankitKanban.com and sign up for a free account (under Pricing and Setup). 2. Create a board for your schoolwork for the remainder of this course. 3. Explore the different features of the card that will allow you to set deadlines, indicate the card is blocked by an outside source, and add notes and/or tags to remind yourself of the status of that card. 4. Take a screenshot of your board at the end of the week. a. Click the Insert ribbon. b. Select Screenshot from the Illustrations section of the ribbon.
- 7. College Success Skills: Student Guide 7 c. Save the Word document. Whether youve included a photo of a physical board, or a screenshot of your virtual board, immediately after the image, summarize your experience in creating the board and what you discovered in exploring it. Submit the image and summary to your facilitator as an attachment in the drop box titled Kanban Exercise.