Week 10-project reflection

My project, self-care and self-regulation for metacognitive development in high school students, is moving along at a steady pace. The amount of writing is heavily weighted on the first four modules of my project, where vocabulary terms and introductions to key elements of the course are first being explored. These modules have required a high level of time management from me, in order to meet deadlines this semester. I have extended my weekend with 2 vacation days this week, and I’m dedicating full work days towards completing the next 3 modules of my project by Tuesday. This will bring me to module six of eight, and will put me back on track for the 3/4 milestone and peer review next coming weekend. I feel confident that I will be able to complete my project, as submitted in my design document, but it will require some focus and commitment in order to stay on track with writing the course, creating the job aid, developing a final presentation video, and conducting peer reviews over the next month. I am confident that once the first four modules of the course are complete, the pace will pick up and move quite a bit faster than the first half of the development has taken. The evaluation step of the project poses some complications for me, because it’s designed for high school students, and is a 16 week course, so there won’t be time for a class to fully test my course design before the end of this semester. I have built in assessment and writing assignments for students to self-evaluate their progress throughout the course though. My plan is to work closely with my peer reviewers and take their recommendations into strong consideration, as I work to polish up the final details this semester, prior to my presentation. I will also send the link to my published course to an educator colleague of mine, and ask for them to review my course, in order to gain additional feedback and insight as to what will and won’t work well, from their professional perspective.