C.O.P.E.R.

Welcome back to the Group Name Blogger's Blog (sorry about the name... we were a little rushed when we came up with it). Once again we are here to tell you about the learning strategies that we used this week. This week's learning strategies are all about PROBLEM SOLVING and I chose to try out the strategy C.O.P.E.R. in my CLS 105 class and in my ANT 111 class. I used L.A.M.E. to help me chose what strategy to use and for what classes I wanted to use them in.

L- (learner)- I am a visual learner so I needed a strategy that was some thing that I could see and hold in my hand. The C.O.P.E.R. strategy was perfect.

A- (action)- I decided to find a project that I needed to work on and a test that I needed to study for.

M- (materials)- My project was my Faculty Interview Project for my CLS class and my test was for my ANT class.

E- (evaluation)- I was able to complete my project and I will take my test next Wednesday and I am confident that I will do well.

If you are not familiar with the C.O.P.E.R. strategy, this is what it is. It is a chart that is divided up into 5 sections.

Current Condition
Options
Plan
Execute the Plan
Reflect

You then fill out the chart and your problems will be solved in no time.

My favorite thing that I did on my C.O.P.E.R. chart was my "Execute the Plan" section. I made a checklist with things that i needed to do and I also put the days that I would do them. It allowed me to visually see my progress and it made sure I was on track.

Here are my C.O.P.E.R. charts

ANT

CLS

Ranking Priorities

This week I used the ranking priorities strategy to use in my WRT 105 class as well as my CLS 105 class. The ranking priorities strategy works by creating a list of all the work that needs to get done in a certain class, and then placing the letters A, B, or C next to them to signify the importance. A being absolutely essential, B being important, and C being optional. After determining the importance of each assignment, one rearranges the assignments in each letter category according to the priority of each assignment.

My writing 105 class has a lot of weekly assignments that often feel like busy work, so the ranking priorities strategy is actually quite effective for this class. Each week we are given a readings and a assignment based around that. We also had a worksheet due that week, but an essay was also assigned for the near future. To me the most obvious way to prioritize the assignments for this class was by the due date itself. The weekly assignments as well as the worksheet were categorized as absolutely essential simply because they were do in two days. The essay, on the other hand, I listed as important because it was not do for two weeks or so and as much as I would have liked to get a start on it there was no real sense of urgency surrounding it. I combined the Ranking priorities strategy with the ten minute technique with writing 105 because the work is very monotonous. It includes defining vocabulary words and other things that make me want to get up and go do something else, so the ten minute technique proved to be beneficial because it helped me power through the work I needed to do. Combined with the ranking priorities, which helped me visualize my goals, I finished under 40 minutes.

The ranking priorities actually helped less with my CLS class, simply because, the homework I needed to get done was all absolutely essential, so it was hard to really make a list and understand what truly needed to get done because it all needed to get done.

I picked the ranking priorities strategy because it is a great tool for me to use because I always find myself jumping from task to task and accomplishing a lot less in a small period of time rather than just getting all my work done at once. The ranking priorities strategy gave me a clear trajectory for accomplishment