{"id":2548,"date":"2018-05-01T22:10:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T04:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2018-05-01T22:10:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T04:10:44","slug":"note-to-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/note-to-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While attending a Student Learning Community meeting on Monday night, my colleague, Cherie Hufford, encouraged the students and me to write a letter to ourselves thinking over the semester and our successes, tribulations, accomplishments, and moments of growth. &nbsp;The letter could include any of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Motivational quotes<\/li>\n<li>Advice<\/li>\n<li>Realizations<\/li>\n<li>Goals<\/li>\n<li>Support<\/li>\n<li>Reminders<\/li>\n<li>Achievements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I choose to write advice to my future self thinking about what I learned this semester and reminders of what truths I wanted had learned. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To me, this \u201cNote to Self\u201d activity could be a great way for students to reflect on your class. &nbsp;There are several ways to vary this activity:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You could have the students complete this activity on the boards in your classroom as a sort of whole class sharing activity. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Another variation of this activity could be an email to self with a future date set so the email shows up next semester. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>No matter how you decide to do this activity, I think the \u201cNote to Self\u201d is a great reflective culmination to the semester. &nbsp;So, what would you write in your \u201cNote to Self\u201d letter?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While attending a Student Learning Community meeting on Monday night, my colleague, Cherie Hufford, encouraged the students and me to write a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-F6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}