Practicum Plan

This semester, we were required to create a Practicum Plan as an assignment for EDUC 401. For this assignment, we were instructed to organize our assignments based on the due dates for all of our classes. The Practicum Plan was intended to be a way for all of us students to keep ourselves organized and up-to-date as to which assignments need to be completed and when. With that said, I felt that the idea of the Practicum Plan was very helpful, but found the desired format to be very confusing and not very effective (in my own personal opinion).

At the start of every semester, I write down all of my assignments for each of my classes in my planner which is in the format of a calendar. I have been using this method since my first year in college and have found it to be very effective ever since. In my opinion, if the Practicum Plan were to be an assignment given next semester, I would recommend allowing the students to put their Plan into any format that they desire (while still including all of the required information). I feel that this will allow the assignment to become more personalized and effective for each individual rather than being effective for the grader of the assignment. In all, I really liked the concept of the assignment, but I would recommend changing the format.