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Team members and coaches often say that the
Public Achievement meeting time is too short to accomplish
what they set out to do. This puts pressure on the coach and
can result in spending just a few minutes at the end of the
meeting to do evaluation. As a teacher, you are in a key position
to bring the practice of Public Achievement evaluation and
reflection into the classroom. Evaluation is a valuable, versatile
skill that can be carried out in a variety of ways. For example,
you can incorporate academic skills into evaluation by having
students write responses to questions or write an essay about
their issue. You can ask students to use technology and the
media to present what they are learning to others in the classroom.
Or, you can have students create public presentation boards.
The ways to capture the learning that is taking place in Public
Achievement is too numerous to name. The main thing is that
you take time to plan how you will do it and carry it out on
a regular basis. If you have a plan ahead of time, before the
year begins, you will be more likely to carry it out in the
classroom.
As stated above, by using a variety of evaluation
tools, you can make tangible the important learning taking
place in Public
Achievement. You can also use this opportunity to reflect
and evaluate what you yourself are seeing with your students
and
the classroom as a whole. Ask yourself the questions below
and share your responses with your students. They will understand
and be delighted to see that you too are learning new things
in Public Achievement.
- What are you learning together with students about
making change in your school and community?
- How does Public
Achievement affect the learning in the classroom?
- What
have you learned about your students through Public Achievement
that you might not have learned otherwise?
- What
skills have your students learned or improved upon since
starting Public Achievement?
- What are your thoughts about
democracy?
What does citizenship mean to you?
- What public problem solving
have you done in your own community? Are there similarities
to what you see in
Public Achievement groups?
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