WRITING GUIDE FOR YOUR EDUCATIONAL PLAN (version B)

GUIDE FOR YOUR EDUCATIONAL PLAN

These questions are offered as a guide as you work on your educational plan. If other

questions or topics are more helpful, they can be substituted. If you and your advisor agree on

some other format entirely, that’s permitted also. Final approval of your plan rests with your

advisor. For an electronic version of this document (which you can use as a template for your

plan) and for a couple of samples of completed educational plans, go to the Registrar’s

website and click on “Guidelines for Graduation.”

LOOKING BACK: Thinking about coming to college and your experience so far,

considering academics, co-curricular activities, and the personal side of things.

What were you looking forward to in coming to college? How has your experience compared

to your expectations?

What has helped or facilitated your success so far at Knox?

What have you enjoyed the most?

What barriers or difficulties have you dealt with in coming to college and/or in your life here

at Knox? Have you been able to overcome these difficulties? How so? What difficulties are

you currently coping with?

What has had the biggest impact on you?

What interests or talents have you discovered here? What previous interests or talents have

you developed further?

What have you chosen for your major and minor fields? What factors contributed to these

choices?

What connections can you see between different parts of your experience?

• between your interests before Knox and your interests at Knox

• between your academic interests and non-classroom activities

• between courses that you find engaging

Is there any pattern that emerges from these reflections? Any signals of subjects and activities

that are likely to engage your interest into the future?

LOOKING AHEAD: Thinking about the future.

Your next two years at Knox:

• Are there additional subjects and/or skills that you would like to explore, either

because they will help you develop the interests you have or because college is a "last

chance" to explore some of these?

• What special opportunities might you want to explore? (E.g., internships, study

abroad, independent study, summer work). See list of "Special Opportunities:

Academic and Co-Curricular."

After Knox:

• Do you have a dream of what you might be doing five years after you graduate from

Knox?

• And can you think of some other possible visions of the future as well?

• Are there other things you could be doing during your years at Knox that might help

you move successfully into these visions?

PLANS FOR COMPLETION OF GRADUATION GOALS:

Foundation courses:

Arts ________________________

History and Social Science ________________________

Humanities ________________________

Math and Natural Science ________________________

Specialization:

Major ________________________

Second field (s) (could be one minor, one additional major, or two minors)

________________________

Explain these choices and what connections you see between your fields, if any.

Key Competencies:

Writing ________________________

________________________

Information literacy and

informed use of technology ________________________

Speaking ________________________

Quantitative ________________________

________________________

Second Language ________________________

Diversity ________________________

Experiential Learning ________________________________________________

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Use your EDR (Educational Development Record) to review the list of courses you've already taken

and to see how they are counting towards graduation goals.

To get a copy of your EDR:

Go to the Registrar's page: http://www.knox.edu/registrar.xml

Click on: Academic Information for Students and log in.

Your username: Your student identification number

Your password: The last four digits of your social security number

You can print out your EDR from the website.