Persistence Summerwork

YOUR EMERGING CURRICULUM

Your emerging curriculum (your academic work) starts where you are with the knowledge you already have and it follows the natural brain process, the order of events might be different for different people. We suggest to start these events when you are relaxed and ready, you may benefit from writing down your reflections to questions/statements similar to:
- What brought you to Evergreen?
- Being in Evergreen, what brought you to the Persistence: Summerwork program?
- Being In the Persistence: Summerwork program:
1 – What do you want to learn? (content and goal)
2 – How are you going to learn it? (use multiple intelligences, Choice Theory, Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
3 – What do you plan to do with what you’ve learned? (the move from theory to practice, i.e., praxis)
4 – What difference will it make?  (build in reflection and assessment, from which springs the next round of the four questions)

THE PERSISTENCE: SUMMERWORK PROGRAM:

We are committed to taking advantage of all available instructional technology resources in Evergreen to become an environmentally friendly program and apply the most favored educational theories in Evergreen to build a community of free thinkers. One important task is to  participate in the development of a Covenant that honors hospitality, recognition and respect to all participants. We make extensive use of our tools for learning.

1. We facilitate this PERSISTENCE: SUMMERWORK program to allow participants to telecommute as much as possible by:
- Attending tuesday or thursday hours/sessions/workshops by invitation, although we are located in the Organic Farm, our classroom is the world.
- Joining and participating in our Persistence: Summerwork program list:  persistencesummerwork@lists.evergreen.edu
- Joining and participating in our Persistence: Summerwork program interactive site (http://elms.evergreen.edu/nakasonr).
- Encouraging co-learners to use their evergreen email, their web space, all resources, events and facilities on campus.
- Encouraging co-learners to use the available most advanced means of communication, Internet, KAOS Radio, Cooper Point Journal and TCTV.

2. We respect the courage of learners who can think out of the box and celebrate with them the creation of their own educational path by responding to the following 4 questions as a starting point to build their emerging curriculum.  Email it to persistencesummerwork@lists.evergreen.edu and to your Team: rutledgd@evergreen.edu and nakasonr@evergreen.edu.

- What do you want to learn? (content and goal)
- How are you going to learn it? (use multiple intelligences, Choice Theory, Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
- What do you plan to do with what you’ve learned? (the move from theory to practice, i.e., praxis)
- What difference will it make?  (build in reflection and assessment, from which springs the next round of the four questions)

3. We are currently experimenting with a learner-centered assessment that we hope will best respond to the needs of our learners who are highly self motivated and completely responsible for their own education.

At the end of your participation in the program we ask you to follow these exit steps:
- By week 8 of the ending quarter, choose a date in week 9/10 in our website and email us an invitation to your learning summary seminar and, if you choose to do it, to your formal presentation also.
- Carefully write and EMAIL us (your faculty team) an academic essay in the 3rd. person written by you about your own work and addressing the credits that will reflect your learning.
- Do not submit your formal self-evaluation until you’ve spoken directly, in person, with a faculty member.  A  self-evaluation is DIFFERENT FROM an academic essay.
- Write your formal faculty/program evaluation and take it to our Program Support Office in Lab I First floor or just email it to us and to persistencesummerwork@lists.evergreen.edu and to your Team: rutledgd@evergreen.edu and nakasonr@evergreen.edu