I needed a
little help to jog my memory of everything we did this past Wednesday from
Sebastian, but as you all should now know we talked about formative and
summative evaluation, and the differences between positive and negative
goals. Now, awhile back we did this
activity with our smart goals and I do remember Sebastian and Brad saying to
reference that when writing our blog and find out if those goals would be
positive or negative and how we would change them. Overall, this week was about having a problem
and what we would do, how we would go about fixing the problem and that will
help us immensely next year dealing with the mentees as they are going to have
problems and seek us for help and we need to know how to go about helping them
the best way.
So, looking
at my smart goals I don’t necessarily think I have any negative goals on there
like ‘I don’t want to fail this class’ they all seem pretty positive in helping
me get where I need/want to go. However,
I can reference something from last year that will help. Sebastian and Brad had us break into groups
and read the scenario and what kind of evaluation that was. I remember connecting with what was on our
piece of paper because it’s exactly what I did last semester. I was dreading taking this econ class and I figured
that the midterm would help me know if I wanted to stay in the class or drop
it; whatever my grade ending up being I would decide to stay or go. Unfortunately, he didn't post midterm grades
so I was totally unclear as to where my standing was in the class. I guess I was using both of the evaluations
for my grade formative because I was tracking it till the midterm and the
midterm itself but summative because I was summarizing everything altogether
and going to decide to stay or go off of that.
I hope that makes sense, it made sense in my head!
I know I'm not going to be able to handle everything that is going to be thrown at me next fall, and it will be hard to not be able to help everyone because I want to try my best. Hopefully, if a student is in the same position as me I'll have a chance to offer extra help, I'll be there to check up on them with their work if they want it, suggest a tutor, talking to the professor and just try to be there anyway I can for them.
Your post was really good at summarizing the lesson. I especially like what you said about knowing that it may not be possible to handle everything next fall. That crossed my mind also. I just hope I can do the best I can and be prepared. We'll do great!
ReplyDeleteThe part about using both formative and summative definitely makes sense. I feel like we almost always use both ways of evaluating things. Two is better than one.
ReplyDeleteIt's great to realize that we won't necessarily be able to handle every situation that comes our way next fall, but I find comfort knowing we have such great role models (Debra, Allie, and Chelsee)plus each other that we can always turn to for help!
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