Self+Evaluation

Gabrielle Glenn January 11, 2010 Senior Seminar Project Evaluation B) Prove that yo met each of these goals or thoroughly explain why you did not.
 * 1) A)List the five goals from your formal proposal.
 * 2) Raise awareness about different disabilities that can affect the lives of many children
 * 3) Learn about the nature of different learning disabilities which would therefore give me knowledge that I would need in the future
 * 4) Understand the use of special schools, such as Easter Seals schools, and know why they are effective as they are
 * 5) Understand the strain that having a child with disabilities puts on a family and how the entire family must change their way of life to accommodate the disabled child
 * 6) Gain a better understanding of how children with special needs learn and how they need teachers to teach them so therefore they can better their advancement in the world
 * 1) I will be able to raise awareness about diseases that children may have through my presentation because I will be informing my peers about how children with autism are affected.
 * 2) I received the knowledge that I will need in the future to help me when I become a special education teacher because I have a basic background that will help me understand the nature of their disability that will later in my career help me help them.
 * 3) I know about the Easter Seals schools, based off of research and because as my project I went and visited a school and interacted with the children. By being in the school I was able to see how the teacher interacted with the children in order to help them succeed in schooling.
 * 4) Through the research I did I was able to see that the economic side of having a child with a disability, because a family with disabilities have to readjust their houses and spend money on things that they had not originally planned to spend money on.
 * 5) I now understand how teachers who teach disabled children can help their students by using different methods of social and communicational skills.
 * 6) Who did you seek for advice on this project? Did you improve at asking for feedback?
 * 7) When it came to advice for this project I asked my mother, who was able to help direct me to the right person to contact about my project portion. Also, my uncle Aris also helped me with this project because he was able to get me behind the scenes at an actual Easter Seals early beginnings school. Mr. Martin also helped me when it came to the thesis writing of this paper.
 * 8) I did improve on asking for feedback because I would go to my mother and ask her what she thought about certain things, and with her opinion I was able to make my decision.
 * 9) Describe any risks you took in order to complete this project. Be sure to consider emotional, intellectual or physical challenges.
 * 10) In doing this project I took risks when it came to the project because I had no back up plans and if I was unable to visit the school I would have been unable to complete the project portion of the class. When I went to the school I took a risk by engaging with the children because I am a very emotional person so seeing the children not knowing what they were doing hurt me because I felt as though I wanted to help them but the teachers were having them learn how to do stuff on their own so they could be successful in life.
 * 11) List and describe three personal satisfactions you have gained from doing this project.
 * 12) From doing this project I was able to get the feeling of being an overall good person because by going to the Early Beginnings School in the Bronx I was able to see how once person can put a smile on the faces of these children.
 * 13) Another thing that I gained from this project was that I was able to see that not all organizations are looking for money to find a cure, but to help while people are looking for a cure.
 * 14) When I was talking and interacting with the children at the school I was able to see their personalities, which a lot of times is under the radar because many people thing that just because someone has a disability that they don't have a personality. This is untrue because each of these children all has their own personality and were able to show it.
 * 15) Explain two problems you encountered and how you solved them.
 * 16) One main problem that I had with this project was my procrastination because I waited until last minute to do my paper so therefore it was rushed and I missed mistakes that I could have fixed if I did not wait until last minute to do.
 * 17) A second problem that I encountered is finding what to say and how to express it with one picture. When it came to the speech portion, I did not want to bore my audience but I didn't want them to be so entertained that they did not understand my topic, so I was able to find a happy medium and plan my speech and then find pictures that backed up what I was planning on saying.
 * 18) What did you learn about managing your time?
 * 19) I learned that in order to get done what I needed to get done in a period of time I needed to set shorter goals so that I could accomplish the larger goals that I needed to do in order to get the different elements of my project together. By setting smaller goals I was able to get everything I needed done by the due date without a whole lot of rushing.
 * 20) What did you learn about managing your level of stress?
 * 21) I learned that to keep my stress level down I needed to keep my goals little so that I do not have to accomplish so much in a little amount of time because when I am trying to do a lot of stuff in a short time period is when I tend to be more stressed out and that then causes me to not focus because I am trying to do so much at one time.
 * 22) If you could do the same project over again, what would you do differently?
 * 23) If I were to do this project over again I would redo how I did my paper in such a rushed fashion, because if I would had followed the goals that I set for myself then I would not have been rushed. Also, I mite have volunteered at several different Early Beginnings schools to see how each of them makes accommodations for their students.
 * 24) Grade yourself based on the stated goals of the course—to encourage higher order thinking skills such as application of knowledge, analysis of information, creativity and the ability to make strong evaluative judgments. What grade do you deserve and why?
 * 25) I believe that I deserve a 91 because I was able to use higher order thinking to come up with a thesis which I then turned into a paper, and if I has analyzed the information better than I think that I could have written a better paper with stronger points of analysis. When it came to creativity I believe that my project was creative because no one else in our class dealt with Easter Seals so therefore I was able to go into a greater depth with the project and paper. I was also able to make strong evaluative judgments when it came to how to I did my project because I had to make a decision on what to do and when it also came to my viewpoint that I took for my paper, so therefore I had to make a decision about what to do and by making a decision I was able to write a paper.