Self+evaluation

Project Evaluation 1. A.  B. Throughout my senior seminar process, I have met most of my goals. With helping people gain confidence, I kept reinforcing during the clinic that they are beginners; they can not be perfect yet. I have made friends with the girls in the clinic and I believe that helps a lot with confidence. I have shown that people who play sports do better academically by all the research I have put into my paper. Almost all of my sources say that participating in any sport will help a student academically and socially. As for managing my time, I believe I was pretty good at it. There were a few instances where I waited until the last minute but I got them done in the end. In my clinic, I have taught the five girls that came, the basics of water polo, including positions, treading, and ball handling. My clinic I believe was a success. I think from my power point, my clinic, and telling everyone that they are not going to be perfect at water polo the first time they play helps people enjoy playing water polo and feel more confidence. From my clinic alone I got a few girls who want to play water polo for the high school next year. 2. I asked for advice the research and what I should do for my clinic. I asked my coaches and my friends what they thought would be most beneficial to teaching new players the basics of water polo. I also asked my friends if they thought the slides in my power point represented what I was trying to get across. I think throughout this project I have improved at asking for feedback. I want everything to be the best it can be and one way to help that along is to ask for help. Also the people I asked for help really aided my power point and overall project. 3. Some risks I took was setting up and running a clinic by myself. I taught girls the basics of water polo. It was a risk because I might not have been able to get the point across that I wanted or teach them water polo in an understandable way. 4. I have had many personal satisfactions from doing this project. The first one was successfully finishing my paper, power point, and project. I was always very nervous that I would not be able to finish a part of that or it would not be that good. However, I have completed them all and I believe I did very well. I will also be very satisfied when I am done the presentation. The second satisfaction was teaching girls who never played water polo the basics. They really enjoyed learning and it made me feel good that I could teach people something they could enjoy throughout high school. My third satisfaction would have to be helping the girls that participated in the clinic with water polo and helping them decide to do water polo next year. Our water polo team needs all the players it can get, and having more girls join is very good. I also feel very good that I taught them something that I am so passionate about. I am very happy with everything in my project. 5. One problem I encountered was I did not talk to someone in charge of the pool right away. I was afraid that I would not be able to get the pool for the clinic. However, I asked one of the managers at the pool if I could bring some girls in and teach them a little bit of water polo. They said it would be fine and that is when I did my water polo clinic. Another problem I encountered was finding enough sources on my topic. I overcame that problem by staying after school or coming in early and asking Dr. Valenca for help. She is very good at finding source that directly relate to your topic. 6. What I learned about managing my time, is that with a schedule things are much easier. I know that if everything was due at one time I probably would have waited until the last minute to complete it all. Also I have learned that you cannot finish all the projects in the class in one night. You have to take your time and think about what you are going to do. This class has helped my procrastination and my time management. 7. Though I am still learning, I realized that almost all problems are fixable. You just have to be willing to ask for help or work a little bit harder. I am easily stressed out but I am realizing that I am the topic expert on my topic and I do not have to be stressed or nervous about the presentation. I have also realized that if you do not wait until the last minute, then your stress levels will not be so high. I have learned a lot about managing my stress levels, but I still have to learn a few more things to not get over whelmed with certain projects. 8. If I could do this project over again, I would fix up my paper. All my ideas were there, but I think I could have found more information and made my paper overall better. I also would probably do my clinic earlier in the year and ask for my coach’s help. If they were at my clinic, they probably could have helped me pick the right things to teach the girls so that the information does not overwhelm them. 9. I think I would deserve a B. I believe that I could have used higher order thinking skills and I could have analyzed my information better. However, I knew about my topic and I did find information that supported my ideas. I think that my clinic went very well and I have taught girls the basics of water polo, which was the clinics purpose. I think that my creativity was good to and the pictures in my power point are good and help get my ideas across. Based on all the work and effort I have put into this class, I believe I deserve a B.
 * Help people gain confidence in sports by having a good friend network and confidence in basic skills.
 * I want to show how majority of people who play team sports do better academically than people who do not.
 * Manage my time properly and not procrastinate.
 * I want to teach people the basics of water polo with the clinic.
 * Hopefully help more people enjoy playing water polo and feel confident with their abilities.