THE SELF EMPOWERMENT SELF EVALUATION

The main aims of self-assessment are to:

•Increase student responsibility and autonomy

•Strive for a more advanced and deeper understanding of the subject matter, skills and processes

•Lift the role and status of the student from passive learner to active leaner and assessor (this also encourages a deeper approach to learning)

•Involve students in critical reflection

•Develop in students a better understanding of their own subjectivity and judgment.

When assessing the quality of the contributions that you made to the assembly, please consider the following four areas of evaluation: ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS!

THINKING/INQUIRY

·  What ideas did you contribute and what was your inspiration for these ideas?

·  Did you suggest solutions whenever a problem arose? If so describe the problem and the steps you took to solve it.

·  Were you consistently well-prepared for class time to work on the seminar? Did you come with research and ideas that needed to be discussed? Please describe in detail what information you gathered and how it was used.

·  Did you consistently integrate the purpose of the seminar (to raise awareness, to educate and to challenge inappropriate ideals) into the planning of the seminar? If so, how did you accomplish this?

·  Please explain how Catholic Teaching supports the purpose of this seminar. State appropriate Catholic teaching using an encyclical or the catechism in order to support your answer.

·  What do you think we should do in order to determine whether our message was received by the grade 9 and 10 audience?

APPLICATION

·  Were you involved in the execution of the project work? If so what was it and what did you do? (creation of script, editing video, creating and/or performing poetry/skits, speaking during the seminar, development of debrief, gathering resources, powerpoint design etc.)

·  Did you successfully fulfill your role and the responsibilities associated with it in both the overall project and in your team? If you didn’t please elaborate on what you could have done to fulfil your role.

·  Did you transfer the skills, knowledge, experience and attitudes (that you accumulated during your time as a St. Mary student) to the development of the assembly? If so what were they and how did you use them to enhance the delivery of the initiative?

COMMUNICATION

·  Did you contribute anything to the ONE DRIVE FOLDER? If so what did you contribute and how did your contribution enhance the development of the seminar?

·  Did you direct attention to the importance of another group members’ statement or idea? How did you support them?

·  Were you able to clearly explain your reasoning process with regard to solving problems? What proper communication techniques did you use to do this? List and describe 3.

·  Did you communicate with members of the school (administration, teachers, other students) in an appropriate and respectful manner in order to properly convey the message and purpose of the seminar and to achieve the goals of the seminar? What did you say and how did those who you were communicating with respond? This could have also occurred after the seminar in the form of feedback.

KNOWLEDGE/UNDERSTANDING

·  Did you have a clear understanding of the purpose behind the assembly? If so what was it? What did we use to determine our purpose? Why is it important to use this source of information?

·  Explain how a negative self-perception can affect a student’s level of self-esteem and ability to learn. Please use researched facts to back up your claim.

·  What 3 contributing factors did we focus on when it came to understanding why today’s youth have a negative view of themselves? Please explain why these 3 factors have such a powerful affect on the minds of youth.

·  Did you have a clear understanding of strategies, techniques and services that we can use in order to help youth stand up to negative messages associated with the development of a negative self-image? Please describe 3 of them and how they help youth.

When assessing the quality of your contributions to the overall assembly and assigning yourself a mark out of 10 please reflect upon and answer the questions listed under each of the 4 categories of evaluation in order to justify why you deserve the self-assigned mark. Also take a look at the achievement charts provided in order to better understand what criteria needs to be fulfilled for each of the 4 categories of evaluation.

CATEGORY OF EVALUATION
NUMERICAL MARK / JUSTIFICATION (answer all of the bulleted questions above to provide proper justification)
Thinking/Inquiry
/10
Application
/10
Communication
/10
Knowledge/ Understanding
/10