WHEN: Finals week: Please sign up for an appointment on the appointments page (Scroll through to the week of Dec. 12-16). If none of the slots marked HST107 work for you, you can take one marked differently but only as a last resort. If none of the available times work for you, email me. No check-in appointments available on Dec. 17, 18 or 19: Finals week ends on Dec. 16!
WHERE: Ettinger 300A (my office)
WHAT: A 20 min conversation. During the final check-in conversation you make a convincing case for the grade you want me to add to the gradebook in Workday. (See the basic description in the syllabus of this system). We should both agree that the grade is a fair reflection of your work this semester.
To make your case, use evidence from your portfolio and participation in the learning commons:
- Your blog posts
- Your participation in class and the wider learning commons
- Your reflections
- Your work in the Pressbooks project, and your work with your teammates and with/for other teams
Be concrete and specific, and be ready to answer the question: “Can you give me a specific example of that?” E.g. “I learned that working in a team requires me to take a step back and not always micromanage everything” –> “Can you give me a specific example of that?” –>”When we were dividing up the work for our team, I had to accept that the chapters on Buddhism were too much for one person, so I decided that it would be ok if we all worked on them individually and then would read through each other’s work before submitting it to you for review. That meant I could catch some errors or sloppy work from team mates who were pressed for time due to other courses, for instance [insert specific example about typos caught or factual corrections you made],…”
For determining your grade, check back to the course goals and the grades description (you can add + and – for nuance in your letter grade). Make me an offer I can’t resist.
Make some notes and bring these to our conversation. Don’t rely on your memory, it may fail in the heat of the moment!
