W14 Life Skills Lesson: Deep Learning

What an incredible accomplishment! In just a few days you will have completed the first course of the PathwayConnect program. You have learned some valuable lessons to help you find and pursue your own pathway in life. During this final week, you will reflect on and apply some of the principles taught throughout this course by writing a letter to a future PathwayConnect student.

Before you begin the last assignment, ponder over the topics discussed throughout the semester. Consider which ones stand out to you the most. This will help you decide what to say in your letter.

Unit

Week

What students produced

Unit 1: The importance of Education

Week 01: Introduction to PathwayConnect

Write a clear, focused basic paragraph on why they are in PathwayConnect

Week 02: Why Education?

Unit 02: Learning How to Learn

Week 03: Learning Stewardship

Identify and evaluate how to become a more capable learner through the growth mindset.

Week 04: Learning Strategies

Create a Learning Plan based upon the Learning Strategies and Learning Model.

Unit 3: Time Management & Goals

Week 05: Time Management

Write a clear, focused essay on a learning strategy.

Week 06: Goals & Habits

Produce a schedule of a 24-hour day in their recent week, and then create small goals to help them achieve their higher goal of completing PathwayConnect.

Unit 4: Personal Financial Management

Week 07: Financial Stewardship

Host a Family Council Meeting.

Week 08: Interest, Loans, and Savings

List and prioritize all of their debts and begin to apply the debt rollover method.

Week 09: Budgeting for Success

Create a budget for yourselves.

Unit 5: Thinking Errors

Week 10: Thinking Errors

Write a clear, focused informative essay on time management, goal keeping, or financial management.

Week 11: Overcoming Thinking Errors

Identify a thinking error, track how often you commit it, and try to resolve it.

Unit 6: Developing Talents & Strengths

Week 12: Talents & Strengths

List your talents and the talents of a close friend.

Week 13: Work & Perseverance

Write a clear, focused persuasive essay on a thinking error or talent development.

Week 14: Conclusion

Write a letter to a new student encouraging them.

Reflecting like this is a key part of the Learning Model. According to the Learning Model website Links to an external site., when you “ponder and prove,” you internalize learning through reflection and then application. When you take the time to ponder and prove the principles you have learned, the Holy Ghost is invited into the learning process. This spiritual connection is referred to by Elder Kim B. Clark in a talk titled “Deep Learning and Joy in the Lord Links to an external site..” Consider the following excerpt:

Kim B. Clark

The learning that leads to joy is deep learning in the doctrine of Jesus Christ, and it must be done in the Lord’s way. Deep learning is learning of the whole soul—the mind, the heart, the body, and the immortal spirit. Deep learning increases the student’s power to do three things:

              1. Know and understand
              2. Take effective, righteous action
              3. Become more like our Heavenly Father
 

As this course concludes, you are invited to continue the process of deep learning. Doing so can help you find joy and continued development as you fulfill your mission upon the Earth.