Senior+Project+Self+Evaluation

All questions are to be typed and answered as thoroughly as possible. The project evaluation is due (posted to your wiki under its own category) on the day you present. List the five goals from your formal proposal.
 * Project Evaluation **
 * 1) To create a new life for my dog and the way my family interacts with him
 * 2) To teach my grandfather about an alternate healing method, and hopefully aid his improvement in that way
 * 3) To help my peers complete similar tasks with their pets
 * 4) To become knowledgeable on Parkinson’s disease
 * 5) To learn to teach and instruct others in animal-assisted therapy
 * 6) Prove that you met each of these goals or thoroughly explain why did not.
 * 7) Armstrong has been greatly impacted by this process. He now has a new purpose in life. It is one that forces us to keep him happy, active, and involved as a huge part of our lives.
 * 8) All of this research has been incredibly beneficial for my grandfather. Because of the severity of the diagnosis, it is sometimes overwhelming to face the facts. However, I feel as if I presented them to him in a way that made it easier to understand as well as provided more promising information for him to feed off of.
 * 9) This is the one goal that I did not thoroughly accomplish. My goal was the work with other students to turn their pets into therapy animals. However, due to lack of time, it never happened. However, I fully intend to do this in the future, after I become more confident in my work with my own dog.
 * 10) My knowledge on Parkinson’s has grown from a very little amount of understanding to recognizing symptoms, treatments, statistics, and the actual details of the disease.
 * 11) I feel very confident in the fact that I can now teach and instruct others in animal-assisted therapy. I have enough background knowledge and training at this point, to be able to pass this information down.
 * 12) What did you seek for advice on this project? Did you improve at asking for feedback?
 * 13) I am an incredibly independent working and struggle asking for help. However, when the deadlines became tighter for this project became tighter and tighter, I asked my parents for help. I mostly used them as soundboards, as I shot all of my ideas off of them before I put them into action.
 * 14) Describe any risks you took in order to complete this project. Be sure to consider emotional, intellectual or physical challenges.
 * 15) The greatest risk was facing my grandfather. It was a very emotional occurrence, as the truth was incredibly difficult to face.
 * 16) List and describe three personal satisfactions you have gained from doing this project.
 * 17) Knowing I have the ability to learn so much information in a way that I am comfortable enough to teach it to others.
 * 18) Watching my dog grow and develop as the project went on.
 * 19) Knowing that I made a different in my family.
 * 20) Explain two problems you encountered and how you solved them.
 * 21) Time was my greatest issue. The training, registration, and certification took much longer to complete than expected. Now, I am completing them after the project is over.
 * 22) Connecting all aspects of my project back to one main idea. I ended up doing this by stating how they all relate to me personally and emotionally.
 * 23) What did you learn about managing your time?
 * 24) Get each step completed as efficiently as possible and set goals for yourself. Otherwise, it is hard to stay on track and you can quickly fall behind.
 * 25) What did you learn about managing your level of stress?
 * 26) Stick with your timeline and goals and the stress should remain at a minimum. However, if things get crazy, I should never be afraid to ask for help in getting myself back on track.
 * 27) If you could do the same project over again, what would you do differently?
 * 28) I would start my hands on project much earlier. That way, I would have been able to complete everything that I intended to do.
 * 29) Grade yourself based on the stated goals of the course – to encourage higher order thinking skills such as application of knowledge, analysis of information, creativity and the ability to make strong evaluative judgments. What grade do you deserve and why?
 * 30) I honestly believe that I deserve an A. I certainly employed many higher order thinking skills as I brought my project full circle. I was able to analyze and synthesize my new-found knowledge in a way that I could teach it to others. I creatively tied the various strains of my project into one solid element. I had to learn a new way of self-teaching, and I think I mastered it fairly well.