The reflective letter is an opportunity for students to reflect on their education up to this point as well as their senior project process. Students will reflect on themselves as learners and evaluate their readiness to graduate. After reviewing their learning experiences, students will examine implications, draw conclusions and state their plans for their future.
Audience:
This letter should be written to your panel members. These will be adult community members and teachers. They will probably not be people you know personally. They will read this letter prior to listening to your final presentation.
Timeline:
This letter cannot be written until after the employability portfolio, scholarly paper and project component are finished. It must also be written before your final presentation.
Standards:
- Introduces self as learner (learning styles taught in the Freshmen Foundations course and in advisory periods)
- Acknowledges significant people, places, events and/or ideas and explains how they have helped shape self as learner
- Effectively narrates how the project component experience was meaningful and challenging for the learner
- Analyzes how identified academic and vocational skills and strengths indicate readiness to graduate
- Describes immediate and long-range employment and/or education plans based on skills, strengths, interests and values.
- Meets standards for 6-trait writing: content, organization, voice, conventions, word choice and sentence fluency
- Submits 2-3 typed, double spaced pages with 12 pt, Times New Roman (or equivalent) font and 1" margins
