Essay Instructions: This is a prior learning essay for credit(I form). I have done these things, but can't figure how to put in a prior learning essay.
PERSONAL FINANCE
Andrews University
ADLD, FNCE 206: Personal Finance, 3 credits
A comprehensive look at the management of one's personal finances; covers budgeting, use of and cost of credit, life and property insurance, income and state taxation, housing, wills, trusts, estate planning, and savings and investments.
(Please use guidlines below)
Developing Your Prior Learning Portfolio Essay
To begin work on your PLA portfolio essay, take a minute to consider this task as a whole. Until this point, your work has been aimed at assessing your life's degree-oriented experiential learning and matching this learning to what is available (not yet filled) on your Regis University degree plan. The focus now shifts to one specific course.
To be awarded PLA portfolio credit for any given course, you must show that you have learned, experientially, the defining contents of that course. That is, your PLA portfolio essay must "cover" the basic course content. Since your essay length is 8-12 pages for a lower division course and, you will need a system that is both efficient and effective in "covering" the course content in terms of your learning experience.
This is where Kolb's model can prove useful. This model can help you to illuminate, in specific, identifiable stages, what you have learned, how you have learned it, and how you have used and refined this learning. Kolb's model also provides a framework, a common language, toward your task of "covering" a whole course.
You must recall and write one or more "learning events" for each of the key terms listed on the course description you have obtained. By using Kolb's model to guide your storytelling, you will assist your faculty assessor, the person who will evaluate your PLA portfolio for credit, to locate and appreciate your learning outcomes.
In short, your task in writing your PLA portfolio essay is to address all listed course content areas and to do so via specific stories told in terms of the Kolb Model.
In the following sections, you will find this challenging task broken into clear-cut phases.
As a starting point in your essay planning, remember that to merit the award of college credit, you must discuss learning that is of appropriate breadth, depth and complexity and blend theory with practice.
Therefore, your PLA portfolio essay must show that you have learned not only how to do things, but also why. Your learning should, therefore, be "transferable," which means you can apply and refine the learning across many settings. Avoid discussion of learning that only "works" at the location where it was learned.