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XPERIENCE
15: S
HIFTING
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XTRINSIC
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OTIVATION
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EARNING
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ECOMING
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OOLS
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ORKSHEETS
Personal Development Assessment worksheet
My Life Vision worksheet
Concept Map
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REPARATION
Your capstone assignment in this course is a self-growth paper. A self-growth paper is based on a process
of periodic assessment of a performance in a particular skill. By assessing your performance throughout the
course on a specific skill and analyzing that performance in an essay, you will see your continued growth in
that skill. This is an exciting process, one that will most likely increase your motivation to perfect the skill
you are looking to improve. A self-growth paper is also an analysis of repeated self-assessments across a
variety of activities focused on specific areas in which you have chosen to improve. At the beginning of
the process, you gave careful thought to what specific areas would be the most useful to focus on, and you
completed assessments that gathered the information about your performance in those areas.
Self-Growth Goals
In Experience 1, you selected three self-growth goals and completed a Self-Growth Goals worksheet,
outlining action plans (how you planned to work to meet the goal) as well as measures (how you would
know when you had met the goal) for each. You revisited those goals again in Experiences 5, 9, and
12, each time assessing your progress for meeting each of the goals as well as determining how you
could improve your performance in working to meet the goals.
Personal Development
In Experience 12, you selected an area where you had previously failed and then avoided risking that
particular failure ever again. You completed a Personal Development Worksheet, developing a plan for
self-growth in that problematic area, and began to put that plan into action.
Mentoring
In Experience 13, you were tasked with completing a Mentoring Planning worksheet and Mentoring
Agreement.
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ROBLEMS
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Armed with all of this data on your growth and development as well as other writings from learning
activities, exploratory questions, and My Life Vision exercises, write your self-growth paper.
A self-growth paper outline is fairly structured.
1. Introduction: Where did you start, what was your perspective going into the process, and why did
you choose the three self-growth goals? What additional non-planned growth occurred?
2. Write a paragraph for each of the 3−5 growth areas. For each growth area:
a. Describe the area of growth.
b. Document the amount of growth with evidence.
Note: You have completed no fewer than 30
different worksheets in this book. While you are welcome to present and discuss evidence of
your progress from your personal life and outside the scope of this course, you should also
include at least one piece of evidence for growth and progress from these forms and worksheets
for each self-growth goal.
c. Describe how the growth occurred. Freely use the performance measures below as evidence of
growth: