- On this page, there are links to various goals and outcomes that are aligned with this course. After you watch the DVD, review the lists and pull out 3-5 that you think the movie touched on. Explain how you think the movie represented that attribute. (If you open the skills and attitudes in a separate window, you can easily copy and paste the phrases you select)
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Outcome 2: Development of Context and Concept
Students will be able to develop ideas that are relevant and responsive to the world around them: The way temple thought, seeing numbers and calculations in her head helped her develop these ideas then respond to them -
Outcome 3: Development of Skill and Technique
Students will have sufficient mastery of one or more media to complete the technical and formal challenges pertinent to a body of original work.: Temple pushed herself to make the pen as efficient as possible and when they wouldn’t listen she opened her own because she knew what was correct. Her overcame her challenges and persisted on. -
Outcome 5: Development of Deliberate Practice
Students will demonstrate behaviors, such as curiosity, initiative, and persistence, that will help them engage with the world in productive ways. Students will be able to work independently or collaboratively to achieve stated goals: Temple chose to work independently, but wasn’t against hearing other peoples ideas. She demonstrated curiosity, initiative and even persistence by dressing as a man to get back into the farm - connect and extend knowledge (facts, theories, etc.) from one’s own academic study to civic engagement and to one’s own participation in civic life, politics, and government.: Temple used the way her brain worked to connect with the cows on what kind of ethical resource they could use for moving all of them from point A to point be
- Choose one of the attributes you listed and give an example of how you have represented that attribute in your academic or personal life.
- I believe that the connecting and extending my knowledge to civic engagement and my own practices is the biggest, like this course in a different class I branched out and became a better ceramicist for it.
For those of you who are interested, here’s an interview with Temple Grandin