RESPONSE 10

RESPONSE 10
END-OF-QUARTER SELF-EVALUATION

I would like you to do an evaluation of yourself in relation to this class. This will count as response number 10 towards your grade. Please answer the following questions, not necessarily in the given order. Please feel free to add anything also you would consider appropriate to help me understand how this course went for you. Post it in your blog and send it to Blackboard –Assessment assignments.

1. How much time and effort did you put into this?
I spend approximately 3 hours a week doing the assignments (readings, response papers…) I spent a lot of time developing the lesson plan.

2. What do you think your strengths and weaknesses were in this course?
My strengths were that I did all the assignments on time; I understood the readings and concepts of the course. My weaknesses were that I missed two classes.

3. How did you feel you performed in this course?
My performance was very well, but still could have been improved, especially the lesson plan.

4. What are the most valuable things you learned from this course?
The most valuable I learned from this course are the different components of culture and how they are related/connected to each other. Very important is also to say that culture can never be judged as “right or wrong” or “normal or not”.

5. What would you do differently if you had a chance to do this all over again?
I would not chose a role play for the final lesson plan because it was not enough time to develop it.

6. How do you feel the cooperative learning approach worked in this course?
I think it worked very well, especially through the lesson plans we learned from our peers, and it was interesting to see how people expressed what they had learned during this course through their final projects.

7. Do you have any suggestions for improving this course?
I think the timing of the lesson plans could have been better; the final project should have been done by everyone before week 15, because if someone cannot attend the last class there is no time to do it afterwards. Instructions for assignments were not always totally clear, and the grade for each assignment should have been delivered to the students two weeks after it was done.

8. What else would you like to add that I did not ask?
All in all I enjoyed the course very much.