evaluating your progress

Remember on the first day we met, how I said that the time would go by faster than we think? Well, today I got this email:

Each year, just before progress reports I ask students to answer a few questions about your performance so that we can evaluate your progress together. This year, your insights are more important than ever, because instead of seeing you for 4-5 hours in person each week, I see you 0-2 hours on Zoom (and "see" often means jsut reading your name).

SO... This is a good time to reflect.  Since I don't see you very much, and you spend 24/7 with yourself (including that oh-so-valuable time with your subconscious while you sleep), please answer the following questions as we begin to assess your performance.  Please write your answers in complete sentences-- you do not need to copy the questions-- and email it to me at either dpreston.learning@gmail.com or dpreston@smjuhsd.org by 3:00 P.M. (Pacific) this Friday, September 18.  Mahalo.

1. What do you do best in this course?  Where are you strongest, most confident?  What can you say you have actually accomplished or learned so far this semester?
2. Where do you need improvement?  Support?  What can you or the teacher do to help you?
3. On a scale from 1-10, how much effort are you putting into this course?  (*You can separate this out into categories; for example, if you put in a huge effort on your blog, but not so much on the reading or the journals or commenting on the course blog, please explain)
4. What letter grade do you believe you have earned at this point in the course?