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Evaluation of educational change is a required course that is taken towards the end of the CCT program. It gives students a chance to pursue a project that dovetails with their own interests through action research. One of the assignments is to conduct 'strategic personal planning' in which you, "Imagine yourself some time after the course is over looking back with a sense of accomplishment on how far you have come in the area of [inserted here how to involve others in my workplace in trying PBL in library orientations]. What different kinds of things do you envisage having gone into that personal and professional development"?


This was a very valuable exercise for me in that I realized how much my own ideas and desires do depend on getting others 'on-board'. Developing a constituency is a major feature of action research - without it, good ideas may languish.

Strategic Personal Planning

Re-drawing my overall vision:

Actively seeking participation with others
to promote PBL in Library Orientations
 

Working with Others

Working on Self

Concrete steps

Creative Steps

Actually visit a couple of faculty members to enlist their support

Speak up more in meetings – any meetings

Think about a timeline for this project

Think of ways to involve students other than as whole classes

Make one contact each week with an English instructor

Try to curb the perfectionist impulse

Keep drafting more PBL problems, from news stories, etc.

Use the RHCL wiki to communicate to library staff about my project

Try to explain this project to my colleagues

Look for chances to engage more with people

Start a wiki for this project

Try to draw a diagram of how my project might unfold

Try out my “Assignment Clinic” idea

Feel more comfortable in groups

Read more articles on PBL

 

Get a group of students to brainstorm PBL problems with me

Become less self-conscious and more self-confident

Try to write an article on how I see PBL working in a library orientation

 

Ask my colleagues for their ideas [on PBL problems]

 

Keep an on-going questions file for things that pop up.

 

Practice trying to explain PBL to different audiences

 

Ideas to facilitate participation by students: vouchers, candy, print cards

 

Get feedback from my family on PBL problems

 

Start a PBL  web page on the RHCL web site

 

Try again to get library staff involved in a demo/workshop

 

Offer to do more time on Reference Desk (more contact time with students)

 

Concentrate more on positive people than negative people

 

Find opportunities to practice facilitating groups

 

[Seek] support from my colleagues

 

Undertake supporting activities  such as Schmuck worksheets

 

 

Next steps:  1) Freewrite,  2) Brainstorming on the obstacles to realizing my vision,  3) Identify underlying issues related to obstacles,  4) Identify specific actions to remove o
Other documents from this course include :
My Contribution to the Class Wiki

My Final Design Project

 

 

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