For this blog posting, please provide us with feedback on the Practicum Plan. It would be really helpful to know how useful it was in keeping you organized throughout the semester and in helping you make progress toward personal learning goals that you identified. When you comment on your partner's blog, please note any ideas that you feel had merit and caused you to reflect further on your feedback.
Sine the Practicum plan was not set in stone I did not look at it often. It was confusing to look at with all the other papers and information attached to it. My mentor teacher and I looked at the checklist to make sure we were staying on top of what we needed to during the semester. It would have been more helpful if I knew what the assignments I put on the Practicum Plan were. I would add an assignment for subjects such as Education 401, but not know what to do for the assignment until a week before it was due. The date that I wanted to get the assignment done by no longer mattered. I couldn't complete the assignment if I didn't understand how to complete it or what I had to do in the first place.
Instead I used my agenda book. I would look at the following week to see what was due and then plan from there. It was easier for me to just think about one week at a time. There were so many assignments to get done this semester, that I would have drove myself crazy trying to think about everything at once.
I think this Practicum Plan would work better if it was in a calendar format. Next years participants could look at the calendar week by week and decide if they had time to do that assignment; if not they cold erase it and write it somewhere else. The due date for an assignment would be in red pen, and the anticipated date would be in pencil. I think the plan would also work better if all the professors and teachers knew about it and worked with the plan in class. They could explain each assignment in full and talk about when would be best to complete the assignment; or which assignments need to be done in the PDS and which ones do not.
I think you made awesome suggestions!! I had the same problem as you. There was just too much stuff. The practicum plan listed all of the assignments, but when there are THAT many, how are we supposed to know what to do for all of them. Maybe if they added a place for the description of the assignment on the practicum plan it would've helped a little, but overall, I think it's just easier to use our individual planner like we always have. The calendar is a good idea though! It would give them a better idea of exactly when things are due/when they want to have it completed.
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