Day 20: Genius Hour Self-Evaluation
Okay...so maybe that's not what you want your students to do. Self-Evaluation is an important part of the process.
The process. The process is the most important part of Genius Hour. Sure, you want your students to come up with a great final project that they are proud of, but it's more important that students get better and better at learning how to learn. This is how you help them be successful in their future in education, careers, and in life! They need to know how to pull out key information, skim/scan, take notes, organize and re-organize learning, synthesize, and share! They also need to practice Habits of Mind like Persisting and Communicating with Clarity and Precision.
So...how do we assess Genius Hour? Well...students get a LOT of feedback from their peers and their teachers to help them improve throughout the process. At the end, we have students do a Self-Evaluation. You could use one of the formats below OR work with your students to come up with a self-evaluation form for your class to use.
The process. The process is the most important part of Genius Hour. Sure, you want your students to come up with a great final project that they are proud of, but it's more important that students get better and better at learning how to learn. This is how you help them be successful in their future in education, careers, and in life! They need to know how to pull out key information, skim/scan, take notes, organize and re-organize learning, synthesize, and share! They also need to practice Habits of Mind like Persisting and Communicating with Clarity and Precision.
So...how do we assess Genius Hour? Well...students get a LOT of feedback from their peers and their teachers to help them improve throughout the process. At the end, we have students do a Self-Evaluation. You could use one of the formats below OR work with your students to come up with a self-evaluation form for your class to use.
Check out some of our self-evaluations here!
I would encourage you to use scales in your self-evaluation (YES! The kids will need MODELING for this!) After doing Genius
Hour a few times, we started having students fill this out at the
beginning of an experience and at the end (they also had to provide evidence - hey Common Core!). It was so exciting for students to
reflect upon the process and have a visual for how much they felt they had grown!
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I would encourage you to use scales in your self-evaluation (YES! The kids will need MODELING for this!) After doing Genius
Hour a few times, we started having students fill this out at the
beginning of an experience and at the end (they also had to provide evidence - hey Common Core!). It was so exciting for students to
reflect upon the process and have a visual for how much they felt they had grown!
