NORTHCENTRAL UNIVERSITY

FEEDBACK SHEET
Dear Student:

Assignment #1 is completed in the Discussion Forum. I will use this cover sheet to give you feedback on
your work.


Main Task: Discuss your Professional and Educational Aspirations
Post a discussion in which you reflect on your professional and educational aspirations and how you feel
Northcentral can help you meet these. Be sure to mention the following:
Background and interest: Professional and educational background, special areas of research or
professional interest
Personal/professional vision: Where do you see yourself five years from now?
Northcentral and you: How you see your education at Northcentral as fitting into your overall
personal and professional development scheme
Northcentral resources: Which resources do you feel comfortable accessing? Where do you feel
youll need more support from Faculty Mentors and Advisers?
Two outside resources (book, scholarly website, article) that youve read recently and you find
relevant to your educational and professional goals. (One of these can be an article you have
published, or your own professional blog or website).
Please note we suggest you submit this initial content post by 11:59:59 on Wednesday of this first
week. Once this is complete please post a response post to another Student's post, to your Faculty
Mentor's post, or an older discussion by the due date of this activity.

Length: Content post 150-200 words; response post 75-100 words

Suggested Due Date: Week 1 Sunday

Your content post and response post should reflect a collegial attitude, be free of grammar and spelling
errors, and include all five of the elements mentioned above.

You will need to return to the discussion activity to see your mentor has response. From the Activities Tab
in the course room click on the Activity name to see the activity. Your faculty mentor might have posted
some feedback directly in the discussion area and/or you will see feedback provided through the
coursework tab below.

Learning Outcome: 1
Assignment Outcomes
Examine how your educational opportunity at Northcentral will support your professional aspirations.





Feedback

Introduction to Feedback:

Dear Lindsey:

Thank you for your initial discussion postings and welcome to NCU and to the course! It was great for me to
learn about your background. I hope that the courses in the program will add to and enhance the knowledge
and skills you already possess.

My main teaching points for this assignment are to evaluate whether or not you read all resources and
readings under each activity, followed the guidelines presented to you in the assigned activity and wrote in a
clear succinct manner when the instructions call for it. Overall, this is a good start to the course.
As I mentioned in my welcome letter, I am here to support your learning efforts and to offer you feedback and
resources you may need to succeed, so my main point today is to strongly encourage you to set sufficient
amount of time to carefully review all assigned resources in each activity and to think about them as they
relate to you and your circumstances, so that you can prepare a thoughtful, informed response reflecting the
learning objectives for each assignment. I am hopeful that the next activity on time management can be very
helpful to you in this regard.


Please review my additional feedback below and let me know if you have any questions.

My very best,
Marla



1. Was the activity completed as instructed?
Please note that I will use a table like this for each assignment you submit. Think of this as a checklist telling
you whether you completed each part of the assignment. I will use yes and no to complete the
checklist and if there is something additional I would like to tell you, I will either make a note next to the
yes or no or provide additional feedback in questions 2,3,4.
2.

Activity Elements Faculty Feedback
The content entry is 150-200 words long.

Yes.
It is important to pay attention to the length requirements
of an assignment, if they are provided.
Writing too much or too little is equally problematic. And soe
instructors are very picky about this!

The content entry demonstrates reflection
on professional and educational
aspirations and how Northcentral can help
you meet these. The content entry should
address:
Background and interest
Personal/professional vision
Northcentral and you
Northcentral resources
Two outside resources
Comfort using resources
Yes

The response post should 75-100 words
long.

Yes, well done!

The entries are free of spelling and
grammar errors.


Yes

The entries exhibit a collegial attitude.

Yes; the tone and style of your entries reflects collegial
attitude.




2. Are statements about all readings and resources accurate?

Yes

3. Is the writing clear and persuasive?
Yes

4. Is the writing correct in punctuation, grammar, word usage, and APA style (for citations and
references)?
Yes

Grade and rationale.
Overall grade:
For this assignment, 70% of the grade is based on content and 30% is based on presentation (your writing,
grammar, APA, etc.) Criteria for content and writing are as follows:
Content
Completion of the assignment as instructed
Understanding of assignment resources
Clarity and persuasiveness of writing
Presentation
Grammar, word usage and APA style

The following areas negatively impacted your grade: Be sure to follow the guidelines for your assignments
carefully.

Your grade for this Assignment, which is worth 10 Points:
Content: 100%(7/7)
Presentation: 100% (3/3)
Total score: 100% (10/10)


Grammar, word usage and APA style PostDefault view

Student: Lindsey Winter
4/30/2014 5:00:48 PM

Student: Lindsey Winter
5/4/2014 2:26:16 PM

Greetings,

My name is Lindsey Winter and I was born, raised, and still reside in Nashville, TN. I currently hold an A.A. in Early Childhood
Education and a B.S. in Early Childhood Education with a certification to teach pre-kindergarten through third grade in the state of
Tennessee. I have taught children in both a preschool and elementary setting for almost six years. I currently teach pre-kindergarten at
a local elementary school. Five years from now I see myself finishing up an EdD. I also see myself as a seasoned mentor teacher
within my school.

Northcentral provides a perfect format for me to continue my education while working as a full time teacher. The MEd program allows
me to further develop the knowledge and skills required to take my career to the next level. I am relatively familiar with APA format, but I
will require support adjusting to Northcentrals library.

The Creative Curriculum for Preschool is a textbook I used during my associate degree program that I still continue to reference.
Teaching with Love and Logic by Jim Fay and David Funk is another one of my favorites. I generally recommend any of the Love and
Logic books.
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