Like I wrote before, the end of the year calls for summary and closure. With children, I tend to find that creative frameworks work better, also for such a "serious" task as summarizing and visualizing the progress achieved in a period. With adults, however, more straight-forward methods seemed appropriate. First, I wanted to write, efficient, but I realized that would be an overstatement. Why? Because I experience that these self-reflective summaries have a very limited efficiency. Some people are more willing and able to observe (themselves) but a large majority just settles for what they think the teacher wants to hear.
I keep repeating that these evaluation forms are important to take seriously, because it is self-reflection that provides the most realistic feedback about their weekly efforts, serving either as an impetus or as a heads-up. And by the way, the assessment can be a source of valuable information for the teacher, the facilitator of those weekly efforts, as well.
Funnily, the most useful feedback I received in these feedback forms was from a guy who didn't have the courage in any other way to ask me to call him not Andris (Andy) but András (Andrew).
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