Mini-Portfolio: Collaboration and Shared Leadership
The purpose of this assignment is to help you achieve the course learning goals shown in bold:
By the end of the course, you should have:
Created a final portfolio that draws from your work completed in the program and uses the portfolio-building process to integrate and reflect on your undergraduate education as a whole.
Developed skills in drawing on evidence in your portfolio to support claims about your learning and capacities for various audiences (friends, family, employers, grad school admissions committee, etc.).
Become articulate about linkages between learning portfolios and professional portfolios.
Developed your capacities to present your work orally and in writing to various audiences.
Worked collaboratively with other students to enrich your understanding of interdisciplinarity.
Due by 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4, in your UW Google Site (Links to an external site.), along with all of the work samples you discuss, and provide the link here in this assignment drop box. Also, please make sure you provide the URL for your Google Site, NOT a Google Doc. If you post the URL for a framing essay on Google Docs, I won’t be able to see any of the artifacts that you talk about. Please bring one printout to class on the due date. Please bring one printout to class on the due date.
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IAS Learning Objective (Links to an external site.): Collaboration and Shared Leadership
IAS students develop their collaboration and shared leadership abilities by learning to work with others to identify dimensions of a project, generate and refine ideas, follow through on the consequences of collective decisions, and pursue specific tasks without losing a sense of the whole. As part of this process, they learn to assess and draw on group members’ histories, strengths, and potential contributions. They develop skills in listening, mediating conflict, playing different roles, and reflecting on the outcomes of collaborative work. Essential to this progress is understanding different ways of managing groups, and reflecting critically and creatively on collaboration processes.
For this assignment, you will create a mini-portfolio focused on your collaboration and shared leadership capacities as described above and as re-interpreted by you in class.
Choose two to four artifacts from your work archive that provide evidence of these capacities. If you like, you can choose one artifact in which your abilities were less developed, and another in which they were better developed, to make a comparison.
Write a 300- to 500-word framing essay that explains your current capabilities related to this learning objective. Keep in mind that you are describing where you are in this moment in time, so it would be helpful to consider what came before this moment and where you intend to go after you graduate, and talk about your work related to this learning objective in those terms. Refer to your selected artifacts and explain how they serve as evidence of your capabilities in this learning objective. You should aim to be as specific as possible in explaining to the reader how the artifacts you have chosen demonstrate your abilities with regard to this learning objective. Remember that your reader will be unfamiliar with your work so you will need to describe it (rather than simply mentioning it). To this end, some of the writing from your annotated bibliography might be useful. If so, feel free to reuse it here.
As you complete this assignment, please draw on the IAS description of this learning objective, your revision of that description, and/or other materials and readings.
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As always, you must properly cite all ideas and words that you borrow from other sources.
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