You are reflecting today across the whole of LCW: four strands, four Applied Learning Tasks, and the Digital Portfolio you have been building since Fifth Year. The SEC will issue a Portfolio in Action brief in Sixth Year; you will not invent evidence under time pressure. You will open a folder you already own. This lesson makes that folder ready: a Portfolio Map, a Course Synthesis scaffold, and a final check that ALT 4 is banked.

Pre-flight (30 seconds): open Strand 2.2 and scan. Tick what you can already see: ALT 1 final, ALT 2 final, ALT 3 final, ALT 4 final (or draft), personal statement, career plan, placement notes. Missing pieces are normal at this stage. Today you map what exists and flag gaps on the map rather than pretending the inventory is complete.

Three terms you will use for the rest of the period. Read the middle column carefully: it tells you what each one demands of the documents you already hold.

Two jobs this period, both for Strand 2.2. Work in this order.

Before anything else: if your ALT 4 Response Plan Final is not already banked in Strand 2.2, finish it and save it now, because ALT 4 closes today. Once that is safe, build your Portfolio Map, and then draft the Course Synthesis scaffold. If the clock runs out, the full prose can be finished in your own time.

First (about 8–10 minutes): sort the sample portfolio cards into the four descriptors of quality. Some cards sit honestly in more than one bucket; place each one where you would defend it. A card that could go in two places is meant to be awkward, and that argument is the useful part. For example, the collaborative five-minute presentation can be Participating (you took part in a shared group outcome) or Communicating (you shaped a live talk for an audience). Both defences work if they are specific. The class will argue one or two of these cards before you use the same method on your own map.

Second (about 15–18 minutes): Portfolio Map — the main piece you make in class. Create or open Strand2.2_Portfolio_Map (table or doc) with four columns:

• Artefact filename (the real name on disk)
• Source (ALT or strand)
• Primary descriptor (one of: Participating, Reflecting, Applying, Communicating)
• Why this descriptor (one short defence line)

List every major artefact you actually hold across the four strands (your ALT finals plus key supporting pieces: personal statement versions, career plan, collaborative reflection, placement notes, feedback, competency evidence, and so on). One primary descriptor per row. If a file is missing, mislabelled, or thin, still add a row and mark the gap so it is findable and honest.

Model row:

Third (remaining minutes): Course Synthesis scaffold — save as Strand2.2_Course_Synthesis. In class, write three headed bullets, one for each question below, rather than a polished essay. A full page of roughly 300–450 words is an optional finish in your own time.

• Yourself now, compared with the start of the course: what you know about yourself now that you did not know then, named from real evidence.
• The ALT that changed what you do: which ALT most changed how you act, not just how you write.
• The first two you would open: which two portfolio pieces you would reach for first if the Portfolio in Action brief landed tomorrow.

Model snippet, for the level of detail question one wants: After ALT 3 placement I can name two situations where I ask for feedback instead of guessing. Strand 1 community work changed who I think a stakeholder is. That is different from where I started, when I could only list job titles I liked.

Write from real evidence, not from a vague sense that you "grew".

Quiet finish (about 3–4 minutes): use this time to complete any open Portfolio Map row or synthesis bullet still on screen. Then talk the prompts through with the person beside you.

• From the rows you have mapped so far, if the Portfolio in Action brief arrived on Monday morning, which two artefacts would you open first, and which descriptor would each one carry?
• Looking at what is on your map now, where is the thin spot (a descriptor with almost nothing under it, or an ALT with missing supporting evidence)? Name the smallest fix you can still make this week: label a file, add one missing ALT line, or pick a primary descriptor for one thin bucket.

Optional Digital Portfolio note, written in your Strand 2.2 folder in your own time: one paragraph to future-you on how to navigate this portfolio when the SEC brief is live.

Your Strand 2.2 folder is further along the path to Portfolio in Action readiness: organised evidence you can open, not a rebuild from scratch.

• Sorted sample artefacts against Participating, Reflecting, Applying and Communicating
• Started or completed your Portfolio Map (Strand2.2_Portfolio_Map) with a primary descriptor beside each real artefact, gaps flagged where needed
• Drafted your Course Synthesis (Strand2.2_Course_Synthesis) as three headed bullets or a fuller page, drawn from the four strands and four ALTs
• Confirmed ALT 4 is banked in final form, or flagged it for follow-up, and checked that key files are labelled and findable