Self Evaluation

Students receive narrative evaluations at Hampshire instead of letter or number grades. At the end of each course, students also complete a self-evaluation reflecting on their goals and class performance. Write a self-evaluation of a favorite class or other learning activity in high school. What were your goals? Where did you succeed? What do you wish had gone differently?

During my junior year of high school, I had almost a full schedule of strictly academic courses. One of the few that truly allowed me to indulge my creative touch was a studio art class. I have always been interested in art, and so I was happy to have the first real challenging art class in my time at school.
My goals for Studio Art were largely different from the other classes I was taking junior year, in the sense that while I generally tried to absorb as much information in my other classes while trying to do well on assignments in art I my singular goal was to simply enjoy the creative process. …show more content…
Due to the fact that I was using new and untrained styles and equipment, It was necessary to keep an open mind. I accomplished this by consistently trying new things, and in doing so I was able to create a range of different artistic pieces. Admittedly, some were not as well-crafted as I would have liked them to be, yet thankfully I was able to treat each failure as a learning experience and thus approve my abilities each time. It was also because of this attitude that some of my greatest regrets about the class arose. Despite my view of each project and assignment as an entertaining and informative window to new artistic realms, many of projects lacked the care that could have made them so much more. If I could do something differently, I would choose to take the class far more seriously than I