Hi guys,
On my prac, I have just been told that I am responsible for completing my mid-placement assessment and then my supervisor will add to it if he feels that there are discrepancies in my personal feedback. Originally, I was quite surpirsed at this and was not quite sure whether I liked the idea of not getting direct feedback from my supervisor. Even so, I agreed to his plan and will set about completing it in my free time.
I have several concerns about this and was wondering whether you guys agreed with me or not. My supervisor tells me that his other students have had to do there own feedback in previous pracs, but I have never heard of this occuring. I generally look forward to my mid-placement assessments as it is a chance for my supervisor to be honest and give me some very specific hints on ways to improve my performance over the next half of the placement. I am worried about providing postive comments about my performance in case my supervisor doesn't agree and then I am concerned about pointing out my poor performance aspects in case this highlights new weaknesess that he may not have noticed!!! See my dilemma!!!!! I do not want to tell him that I'd prefer not to do it alone and I do not think he'd be receptive to this. Do you guys think this is a reasonable request and do you think it is more beneficial for us to self-evaluate rather than just being told our strengths and weaknesses by our supervisor?
Thanks for your input!!
Kate.
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Self-evaluation increases your level of maturity. It will help you get to know yourself.
In the real world....noone will be there to guide us like we do here. We will have to use maturity to evaluate ourselves. May be this is a great training for u in this way.
Coming to the way you communicate your strengths and weaknesses. There can be an endless list to these things about yourself and the placement is very short. What you may need to do is - set yourself some goals, rather than focus on fixing a weakness, so you are directing yourself somewhere.
It's a good way to motivate yourself as well to grow to a higher level. May be that's what your tutor wants.
Hope that helps.
Hi Kate!
I definately see your dilemma! But as Sashi said it is good training for the real world, where we will constantly have to evaluate oursleves in order to improve.
I dont think your supervisor will disagree about your strengths! :) I also think that discussing any weaknesses with him will help you come up with strategies to improve them by the end of the prac!
Hope it goes well for you!
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