Problem Solving

Really great job, Sebastian and Bradley! I really enjoyed that we all got to put input and interact with one another this week. I liked how we addressed problem solving in the activities by getting to exercise our critical thinking!

Our weekly question was a good intro into the lesson and gave us a structured time to start thinking about problems we’ve faced so we can use past experiences in the lesson to give it more depth so it will be easy to pull the lesson when we are facilitating next semester.

Activity One, so wonderfully titled, gave us practice using resources (each other) to give insight to the problem we had at hand (identifying our locations). I usually struggle with these types of activities because usually the cards have really unfamiliar items on them so I’m glad they used campus locations because we are familiar with those, or at least we should be! This would also be a good activity when doing resources on campus as reinforcement for the students next year.

Activity Two was also really good to give us a chance to think about different goals and how we can best evaluate our progress. No matter how good goals are written, it means nothing if we can’t effectively evaluate progress on them. This will be especially helpful next year not only in evaluating our own goals and growth but also helping the students set and following up on goals they set or problems they face/come to us about. I also liked that we were placed in groups since group problem solving is something as college students we face regularly through group assignments and what we will experience next semester as co-leaders.