Examples include filling, stuffing envelopes, answering phones and taking messages, opening and sorting mail. Student performs routine assignments where steps in the process are clearly outlined. Some independent judgment is required. Student performs non-routine assignments where steps are not clearly defined. May coordinate a process or project.
Independent judgment is required.
Examples include secretarial administrative work, simple research, simple programming, computer desktop publishing, etc. Wheaton students can use the Learning From Experience process to set goals, to reflect on how and what they learn, and to discover connections among their academic and career interests and personal values. Additionally, by going through this process, students benefit from the cumulative effects of integrating academic interests, strengths and knowledge with opportunities for learning presented at their experience. The Learning from Experience process has five steps. During this process the student identifies what he or she hopes to learn from, and contribute to the experience, assessing, mid-way, what he or she has learned.