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“Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.”
George Savile, Maquis of Halifax, English statesman and author

6 CONTEXT OF PERFORMANCE

The Context The Context of College
of College
In Chapter 1, you learned that an important component of the Performance
Introducing Model is “context.” What does that mean? One aspect of context is your learning
Rene environment. How are you taking this course? Are you attending class three days
a week? Or, perhaps you are doing an intensive one-week course in the summer.
The Terminology Maybe you’re taking this course online. Each of these provides a different context
of College for your learning.

The Student You are most likely a college student. What kind of college are you attending?
Handbook Do you live on campus? Or do you live at home and go to classes each day from
there? Do most students commute to your college? Do some students study online
Life Goals and and rarely, if ever, actually come to campus? Each of these situations provides a
Academic Goals different context for learning in college.

LVP: Interviews If this is your first term or semester, you’re probably encountering lots of new
terminology. Since these terms provide information about the context of your
Developing Your learning, we will spend some time reviewing this terminology. Another source of
Educational Plan information about your learning environment is your college’s Student Handbook.
We’ll do some investigation there as well.
College Support
Systems and Services At some point in your time at college, you will declare a major. Your major will
further define your context. How will you decide on your major? As you have
College Learning probably already begun to discover, making choices about your future is not as
Environments simple as you might wish; there are so many choices to be made! This chapter
therefore includes activities
Activity 6.1 that will help you begin to
think through your interests
The Terminology and options.
of College
In Chapter 2, we introduced
Activity 6.2 the Life Vision Portfolio
(LVP). You placed answers
The Student to some general questions
Handbook in that portfolio as well as
reflected on a significant
Activity 6.3 event in your life. You also
refined the educational
Developing an goals that you identified in Chapter 1. In this chapter, you’ll add a few more entries
Educational Plan to your LVP to help you sharpen some of your educational goals.

GLOSSARY general education higher education major terminology

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