Undergraduate Competency Development
2 – UGC Development – Plan (4%)
Purpose
This is your plan to develop the Undergraduate Competency which includes a final S.M.A.R.T. goal with your weekly plan/approach. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Instructions:
Submission type: Document submission through SLATE drop box for A & B see SLATE for due dates
Building on the exercise you did in posting #1 and incorporating the feedback from your peers, answer the following questions about your UGC Development Project. If you prefer to use a template, one is available in the Content à Assignment folder on SLATE. Important note regarding your goal: Approval from your professor must be obtained before moving forward
- What competency and specific behaviour(s) are you working on developing for this project:
- Competency
INITIATIVE
- Specific behaviour(s)
Actively look for ways to improve yourself or things around you
- What is your final S.M.A.R.T. goal?
Try to work on my financial development and save a portion of my biweekly salary to a savings account do some research on how to save effectively . And keep track of my spending.
- What does success look like? (visualise the final goal)
- How will you be able to demonstrate you have developed this competency? (Behavioural measure)
- What evidence would you like to provide that shows your development? (evidence)
- How will you record and measure your progress? Be specific.
- Breakdown a plan of weekly activities and/or goals (feel free to attach an additional file if necessary)
- Sample headings included below, feel free to use your own format. Your plan should include 8 weeks of planning
| Week | Expected progress | Resources | Notes |
- Identify any obstacles that may make it difficult for you to achieve this goal
- Complete Horne-Ostberg Morning-Eveningness Questionnaire to understand you circadian rhythm type.
- What did you learn about yourself from that assessment that will impact your UGC Development project?
- From your research questions in post #1, provide 2 references you have used in research for this project (APA format)
- A reflection about the role that you would like other people to have in your project (example: support, guidance, coaching…)
Rubric
| Area | Level 1: Beginning 0-49% | Level 2: Developing 50-70% | Level 3: Accomplished 71-80% | Level 4: Advanced 81-100% |
| Discussion Board Posting | Plan is missing critical information | Limited response on 7 questions | Satisfactory reflection on the 7 questions posted. Answers are high level and are missing detailed descriptions or critical thinking | Robust and thought out plan address all 7 questions demonstrates critical thinking and includes detailed descriptions |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
INITIATIVE
Try to work on my financial development and save a portion of my biweekly salary to a savings account do some research on how to save effectively . And keep track of my spending
Actively look for ways to improve yourself or things around you
Save between 5-10% of my income biweekly
Build a budget and say what worked and what didn’t work and see how it goes
Best practices for savings
1-Get the money cash and put it somewhere at home and not use it(sometimes I would forget to take the money or easy to spend as well)
2-open a saving account and put money automatically every paycheque in it.(wouldn’t work as I would have access to it through my online banking and can easily send money and use it
3- I work at TD Bank and the company offers us an employee share plan that they would match up to a certain percentage and we purchase share of the company that would keep going in value. Easy to set up as it gets deducted every paycheque from my salary . Participate in a employee share plan that can save between 5-10% of my paycheque and can withdrawal it every 4 months also the company would match 50% of my contribution (the one would work best as it’s only accessible every 4 months once also the company would match my contribution 50% of it )
