Senior+Project+Self+Evaluation

=Project Evaluation=


 * I.** Five Goals From Formal Proposal:


 * 1) To increase awareness of the social and economic conditions on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation
 * 2) To make a positive difference within their community
 * 3) To commit myself for the next two summers to live, work, and make a difference within the community
 * 4) To break down cultural barriers
 * 5) To discover "how" and "why" these conditions occured, and to find out what roles the U.S. government

Reflecting back on my senior seminar project, I am proud to announce that I have met all five of my orginal goals from the formal proposal. The first of these was to increase awareness of the social and economic conditions on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. I have achieved this through the process, discussing with peers, and will formerly complete this when I present my project to my class mates, advisors, and the community on January 06, 2010. The second goal was to make a positive difference within the community on Standing Rock Indian Reservation. I completed this goal by organizing, running, and completing a summer camp with the children, along with a family fun night at a local church on the reservation. My third goal was to commit myself for the next two summers to live, work, and make a difference within the community. I achieved this when I applied to become a Pathway. Living and working on the reservation will allow me to spend a lot of time with the people, and allows me to make a concrete difference. The completion of this allows me to work on my fourth goal - to break down cultural barriers. I achieved this among the kids who stayed at the camp, forming everlasting friendships. Lastly, through research, I was able to discover 'how' and 'why' these conditions occur, as well as what roles the United States government played. This is explained and investigated throughly through my research paper.


 * II.** During this project, I sought advice from different classmates, and well as Mr. Martin and Dr. Valenza. Due dates, technical information, as well as the research progress were points of concern, and I improved at asking for feedback. In doing that I was able to ensure a more successful project.


 * III.** In order to complete this project I took many risks, mostly emotional, intellectual, and physical challenges. Intellectually, I challenged myself to complete research, compare data, and reach conclusions. However that was not as stressful as emotional, and the physical challenges. Physically, changing time zones when traveling to North Dakota along with the grueling physical work to clean andprepare the camp, left me with intense sleep deprivation. Emotionally, was the hardest. Being exposed to extremem poverty and devastion, touches on many different levels, as well as the prominent alcoholism and other pressing social issues.


 * IV.** Two problems I have encountered during the course of my project was during the researchy and project sections of my senior sem project. Researching was difficult, due to the little information I was able to gain, howver, this was beneficial,, for it pushed me to reach more interpretive decisions on my own.


 * V.** Importantly, I learned that time management is crucial. Staying on top of due dates was crucial and helped me to have a successful, timely project.


 * VI.** Managing my stress levels was a point of concern. With adequate time management, I was able to descrease this. Lower levels of stress lead to a more productive, successful project.


 * VII.** If I could do the same project over again, I would invite people to travel to the reservation with me. However that would require many additional hours of planning, money, and unlimited resources, which is virtually impossible.


 * VIII.** Grading myself on the stated goals of the course, "to encourage higher order thinking skills such as the application of knowledge, analysis of information, creativity and the ability to make strong evaluative judgments," i would give myself a B+ for achieving the goals of the higher order thinking skills concerning the application of knowledge, and analysis. However i could improve with the ability to make judgements.