Goal #1: Focus less the specific the grade of an assignment and more on understanding the concepts of the material.
Why? When focusing on only getting a specific grade it does not help me understand the content. It only creates stress and can make an assignment feel like a chore instead of an opportunity to learn and understand and display the content I have learned. In the reading it discusses how putting in the hours into an assignment is not the same as understanding it. (176) I also need to accomplish this goal of letting grades go because in the long run it will help me do better. It will help with first understanding the material better and then do better because I am understanding instead of thinking about how to get a specific grade. …show more content…
By striving for intellectual humility it will prevent me from being closed off or stubborn towards new ideas or ways of understanding information, which is important to see a bigger picture of society. It will help me achieve the first goal of understanding being the focus because by being open towards topics I do not understand. This practice of intellectual humility will allow me to engage and expand my learning. In the reading it talks about how social sciences can be seen as subjective and because of this it can be easier to question facts. (167) Since it can be seen as easier to question the subject matter of this course I need to strive for intellectual humility to learn as much as possible in the course.
How will I achieve this goal? I will keep my mind open to ideas that I may not agree with and I will not allow my own perspective or knowledge to get in the way of looking at new ideas that can be used to build my knowledge and learning. I will keep a journal to list the information I do not understand and with the journal I will focus on the information I do not know to learn more about it.
Goal # 3 To learn from my reactions of subject material that bothers me or that I did not have much knowledge of …show more content…
It is this way because as a woman I can understand the oppressiveness of the issue, but at the same time I am a white woman so my experience of sexism is vastly different and I may not see it the same way as a women of a different race. I also feel that the issue of gender may bring up feelings of my own internalized oppression and cause me to disengage. My plan to keep myself from disengaging with the course through the discussion of the issue of gender is to self reflect on my uncomfortable feelings through writing them down. I will then work through why specifically I feel this way and then finally read more about the topic to learn from my feelings in a positive
Why? When focusing on only getting a specific grade it does not help me understand the content. It only creates stress and can make an assignment feel like a chore instead of an opportunity to learn and understand and display the content I have learned. In the reading it discusses how putting in the hours into an assignment is not the same as understanding it. (176) I also need to accomplish this goal of letting grades go because in the long run it will help me do better. It will help with first understanding the material better and then do better because I am understanding instead of thinking about how to get a specific grade. …show more content…
By striving for intellectual humility it will prevent me from being closed off or stubborn towards new ideas or ways of understanding information, which is important to see a bigger picture of society. It will help me achieve the first goal of understanding being the focus because by being open towards topics I do not understand. This practice of intellectual humility will allow me to engage and expand my learning. In the reading it talks about how social sciences can be seen as subjective and because of this it can be easier to question facts. (167) Since it can be seen as easier to question the subject matter of this course I need to strive for intellectual humility to learn as much as possible in the course.
How will I achieve this goal? I will keep my mind open to ideas that I may not agree with and I will not allow my own perspective or knowledge to get in the way of looking at new ideas that can be used to build my knowledge and learning. I will keep a journal to list the information I do not understand and with the journal I will focus on the information I do not know to learn more about it.
Goal # 3 To learn from my reactions of subject material that bothers me or that I did not have much knowledge of …show more content…
It is this way because as a woman I can understand the oppressiveness of the issue, but at the same time I am a white woman so my experience of sexism is vastly different and I may not see it the same way as a women of a different race. I also feel that the issue of gender may bring up feelings of my own internalized oppression and cause me to disengage. My plan to keep myself from disengaging with the course through the discussion of the issue of gender is to self reflect on my uncomfortable feelings through writing them down. I will then work through why specifically I feel this way and then finally read more about the topic to learn from my feelings in a positive