Portfolio

PORTFOLIO

Hi Students,

Please remember to come to class everyday, and on time. Stay for the full class too. Attendance is key. Ask lots of questions and 'do your best' !

This page will help you make your own personal "English Language Learning Portfolio".

Your portfolio will include 1. "My Story" = "Autobiography" = "Welcome Introduction" 2. Learning Styles 3. Needs Assessments 4. Goals, and your personal plan to achieve these goals as you study English. 5. We will try to open up Microsoft OneNote to keep an on-line record of this portfolio too.

You will keep samples of your best work. These will show a picture of how you have progressed from level to level. These samples or artifacts will also help you and your instructor assess your improvement as you learn English.

The portfolio stays with each student as you learn English.

- Kinetic 4/28/16

Your Portfolio Binder will have five sections. Use dividers to organize your binder.

2. Listening: Personal Dictionary, Guest Speaker Reflections 3. Speaking: Speaking Check List, English is Stupid, Presentation Feedback, 4. Reading: 12 Themes 5. Writing: Writing Check List, Grammar Log, Journal
 * 1. Portfolio FOUNDATION:** includes your Portfolio Checklist, benchmarks, your needs, learning style, Can Do Statements, and goals and your plans to achieve these goals.

Can Do Statements»: http://www.language.ca/index.cfm?Voir=sections&Id=17369&M=4038&Repertoire_No=2137991327
 * Templates to help you make your portfolio:**

**//__VISUALIZE SUCCESS – AND IT CAN BE YOURS__//!** At one point in my life I had a horrible case of the “Why bothers.” I couldn’t get my engine running, let alone rolling to its destination. Then I ran into an old friend, Chad, who told me to set some goals. Said, Judy M. Bailey. “You’re not listening, “I informed him.”Goals won’t help- I have no energy! I can’t do anything.” Chad promised that committing goals to paper would supply me with plenty of energy and enthusiasm to reach my objectives. “Just try it,” he said.
 * //The Value of setting specific, measurable goals//.**

Glasscock has seen this principle at work in this life as an increase in income, client base and referrals. Plus he has seen clients establish a great deal of success. “Life does not go according to plan if you don’t have a plan,” says Gary Blair, the Goals Guy and President of the Goals Guy Learning Systems in Tampa, Florida.” “A goal is created three times: A goal is an objective; it’s something to aim for. There’s a saying that you won’t hit the largest until you known what you’re shooting at. Goals drive us in the direction of the dream that most often occupies our thinking. There are as many ways to approach setting goals as there are people who make them. But certain points are central to most of these techniques.
 * //Setting Goals//**
 * “**A goal is something that a person wishes to achieves,” says Gary Glasscock, authority in goal-setting and visualization techniques and owner of life coaching business called Manifesting Your Life. “What you hold your focus on is what you will receive, especially if you look at that goal as already achieved. It will draw the goal to you.”
 * 1) First as a mental picture
 * 2) Second, when written down to add clarity and dimension. And
 * 3) Third, when you take action toward its achievement. “
 * **Be clear and specific.** Beware of vague goals, like “to become a better person” or “lose weight”. Both are good objectives but offer little direction, they don’t answer the question, How?
 * **Make them measurable.** Lose how much weight and by when?
 * **Set a time limit.** “You must hold yourself accountable to deadlines and adjust tasks accordingly,” says Blair. “Slipping deadlines is a symptom of poor execution and lack of discipline.”
 * **Break projects down into small, more manageable units.** Rather than setting a goal of losing 30 pounds, make one for losing five pounds this month.
 * **Establish stepping-stone goals.** In order to lose five pounds, you can aim for waiting 20 minutes three times a week or eating five helpings of fruits and vegetables a day.
 * **Write them down.** Most expert consider this a crucial step > Writing your ambition down makes them real and keeps them in your mind longer. Plus it establishes a commitment to yourself.
 * **Post goals around the house.** Experts suggest displaying Post-it notes or other signs around the house - perhaps on your computer monitor or on the bathroom mirror.

Visualization is being used more and more in competitive sports. For example, Olympics gymnasts spend hours each day visualizing their perfect performances. This practice involves picturing the outcome, emotion or object that you desire. It enhances motivation, direction and commitment. Outcome visualization serves as motivation to work hard to achieve. “For years we have been hearing how important visualization is from trainers and motivational speakers,” Glasscock says. Now we know how it works. It keeps us focused, in-tune with what we hope for. There’s an old saying Where attention goes, energy flows.” Here are some steps to visualization: Goals and visualization fade away without action. “ In order to receive a victorious outcome, perseverance is the only option,” Blair says. ** “ **** As long as you are willing to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes, no one will be able to prevent you from reaching your goal.” **
 * //__PRACTICING VISUALIZATION__//**
 * **Close your eyes and picture the mental images of your goal** vividly and precisely.
 * **Use the senses** to engulf yourself in the visualization
 * **Sight –** What do you see around you? What colors are present? What grab and hold your attention?
 * **Hearing –** What sounds are you hearing? Are there sounds that appear suddenly, others appearing later? Are there sounds appealing or not?
 * **Smell –** Are there smells that strike you, pleasant or unpleasant? How do the odors affect you?
 * **Taste –** Is there anything to taste? Are you eating or drinking? Do you have some lingering taste in your mouth?
 * **Feel –** What do things feel like? How do the clothes you’re wearing feel on your skin? What does the air feel like? Is it cool, dry, breezy?
 * **Picture movement –** Your movements, things outside of you in motion. Quick motion is better, although subtle movements might catch attention.
 * **Employ your emotions.**
 * In your mind celebrate how you would feel reaching this goal.
 * Allow yourself to experience the completion of your victories – picture joyful elation, wide smiling and perhaps, jumping up and down.
 * Taking Action**

Genius. Sunday, Feb 03, 2013