Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Assessments
The assessments for the lesson plans were difficult in the sense that there seemed to be only a little bit of creativity that could be used to evaluate how much somebody learned. Other than a review of what was learned, likely in a written response, I can't figure how an individual would evaluate a student. I'm probably just not creative enough.
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I really liked the suggestions in the Course Reader. I think somewhere on page 102 or something. I t talked about different ways to assess students and a lot of what the Reader said I thought were very creative.
At the very least, JA volunteers take away new ways to devlop ourselves as leaders. After all we are on stage, we have one class period a week to teach studetns, and we have a message to give them about..whatever...no matter how ässenine"it may be. Be creative! I used a Starbucks gift card of five bucks to motivate the students . I dont do it anymore because i dont believe in giving students money for cooperation or good grades or good behavior. But I did it just to prove a point about incentives, opp. cost, and most of all about extrinsic and intrinsic motivation. The extrinsic motivation being the reward of Starbucks yummy coffee. The intrisic motivation being something else which I did not figure out until today. It was their fear of credit, which was the topic of todays session. Most of the choices they made on their scenario sheets were more conservative than I thought just to stay away from falling into any kind of debt. They come from low income households though who have come by some form of trouble with credit. SO they are scared of it. The symbolic thing is that they FOUGHT over that dam Starbucks card. crazy. The intrinsic motivation shopuld be to fight over control of their own lives; or their financial future and in this case their credit. COnsidering how bad people generally handle their credit now then I think its pretty important that they learn how to use credit wisely and overcome their fear...not matter how assenine.
OMG. We have to get together to do our lesson plan!!!
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