S.L.C.
You can relate S.L.C.'s to parent-teacher conferences. However, the student is there, and they lead you through their learnings. Before I have mine, I always prepare notes as to what I'm going to talk about. This is the document I used for my first semester S.L.C. to make sure I covered all of my topics.
Humanities:
Successes - I think that my main success would be the Socratic Seminars. I feel very confident in the discussions, and I usually have an interest in them. I feel like group discussions are my strongest point in the class, because I get to share my opinion. I especially like these because the night before you can do as much research on the topic as you want. Typically the night before a seminar I will do some extra research to learn more about the topic, that way I really know what I'm talking about, and I feel strong in the topic.
Challenges - My main challenge would have to be the book club packets. I love reading, and I do it a lot, but it's hard for me to try and focus on finding something to write down when I'm trying to think about what's happening in the story. It kind of distracts me from the plot, but i try to do my best.
Physics:
Successes - One of my strengths in physics would be testing. I think that I finally have it down to where when I get the problem, I know exactly what I should test for. An example of this would be for the crashing buggies lab. Even though I wasn't the tester, I knew the best ways to find out the how far the car goes in what amount of time.
Challenges - One challenge that I've had even from last year was D=RT and y=mx+b. I still don't even understand it the slightest, because it has so many steps that when you ask someone to explain it they do it so fast I don't understand what their saying. I think that I really need help on this because it will be very useful. One example would be for the buggies lab, that was one of the major ways people solved the problem. In the end I'm glad that I did do a motion map, but it would of been good to know.
Math:
Successes - So far I'm feeling very confident in math. I fully understand every type of graph that we have gone over, 5 point summaries, mean median and modes, and everything along those lines. Data collection is a strong point for me.
Challenges - So far in math my only challenge is time use. Either I get distracted and I don't do my work until the end of class, or I do it too quickly to get it done but I make little mistakes. The reason why I want to fix this is because the little things affect it greatly. An example of this would be, if you're finding the 5 point summary, and you leave off one piece of data it all gets thrown off.
Successes - I think that my main success would be the Socratic Seminars. I feel very confident in the discussions, and I usually have an interest in them. I feel like group discussions are my strongest point in the class, because I get to share my opinion. I especially like these because the night before you can do as much research on the topic as you want. Typically the night before a seminar I will do some extra research to learn more about the topic, that way I really know what I'm talking about, and I feel strong in the topic.
Challenges - My main challenge would have to be the book club packets. I love reading, and I do it a lot, but it's hard for me to try and focus on finding something to write down when I'm trying to think about what's happening in the story. It kind of distracts me from the plot, but i try to do my best.
Physics:
Successes - One of my strengths in physics would be testing. I think that I finally have it down to where when I get the problem, I know exactly what I should test for. An example of this would be for the crashing buggies lab. Even though I wasn't the tester, I knew the best ways to find out the how far the car goes in what amount of time.
Challenges - One challenge that I've had even from last year was D=RT and y=mx+b. I still don't even understand it the slightest, because it has so many steps that when you ask someone to explain it they do it so fast I don't understand what their saying. I think that I really need help on this because it will be very useful. One example would be for the buggies lab, that was one of the major ways people solved the problem. In the end I'm glad that I did do a motion map, but it would of been good to know.
Math:
Successes - So far I'm feeling very confident in math. I fully understand every type of graph that we have gone over, 5 point summaries, mean median and modes, and everything along those lines. Data collection is a strong point for me.
Challenges - So far in math my only challenge is time use. Either I get distracted and I don't do my work until the end of class, or I do it too quickly to get it done but I make little mistakes. The reason why I want to fix this is because the little things affect it greatly. An example of this would be, if you're finding the 5 point summary, and you leave off one piece of data it all gets thrown off.