This past week has been busy and probably stressful because of the PLAN test and finalizing the Job Shadowing Field Experience. So, it’s time to reflect.
Write a new blog post with at least 150 words reflecting on your PLAN test experience and/or on your Job Shadowing Field Experience. Here are your two options:
Option 1: If you are reflecting on the PLAN TEST, share your journey of preparing for the standardized test (hopefully you remember some of the practice tests we took and analyzed as well as the test-taking strategies). Explain your thoughts and feelings throughout the process. Were the practice tests easier or harder than the actual test? Was it useful or not useful to review and assess each question in class to prepare for the actual test? What advice or technique helped you the most? the least? Use detail and share some advice to people who will take the PLAN test (or any standardized test like the ACT) this year or next year. Would you have done anything differently? Why? or Why not? Remember that others will view this post. Give them helpful advice so they are prepared and ready. Plan to ace the PLAN test.
Option 2: If you are reflecting on the Job Shadowing Field Experience, share your journey of preparing for the 4 hour experience as well as what happened while job shadowing. How easy or difficult was it to figure out your career interest? Why was it so easy or difficult? What is your dream career interest? Why is that a career you want to have in the future? What makes it exciting and/ or intriguing? Reflect on the planning stages of Job Shadowing. What was difficult? What was easy? Were you apprehensive about contacting your contact? Did you feel overwhelmed or stressed about finding the right career or right person to contact? Why did you choose option 3 and go on the school-provided field trip? What did you like and/or dislike about the experience? What would you have done differently? What did you LEARN from the job shadowing experience? Are you still interested in the same career or have you changed your mind and want to choose a different career? Please explain. If you chose Option 1 or 2, why did you choose those options? Are you being successful working on the job shadowing independently? Are you communicating with the professional you will be shadowing? Did you already complete your job shadowing? How was it? If you haven’t completed the job shadowing, why are you still not done? What has prevented you from being successful? What advice do you have for future sophomores so that they do well on their job shadowing?