The document discusses the first day of an 8-week college course, USTD 1101: Strategies for Learning, aimed at helping students on academic probation develop effective learning habits. Students expressed their feelings about probation through writing and drawing, with themes of sadness, frustration, and a desire to succeed. The instructor is interested in interpretations of the students' drawings reflecting their emotions and thoughts about their academic situations.

1. Picturing Academic Probation
Angelo State University
USTD 1101: Strategies for Learning
Dr. Laurence Musgrove
Department of English and Modern Languages
January 23, 2013
www.theillustratedprofessor.com
@lemusgro

2. First Day Reflections
On the first day of USTD 1101: Strategies of Learning, an 8
week college course designed to help students on academic
probation obtain successful learning habits, I asked these 19
students to write for about 5 minutes on their
thoughts, feelings, and attitudes about being on probation
and having to take this course.
I then asked them to draw a picture that reflected in some
way what they had written.
Here in what follows are some of those drawings. I’d be
interested in hearing how you would interpret these
drawings.

11. Time which we don’t have

12. Sad when I Mad when Smirked Excited how
found out I thought about when I thought that I’m
I was on last semester about getting enrolled and
Academic and how I wasted another chance ready to give
suspension. money and time it my all