Artifact #7: Data Analysis Simulation
Goals: 1, 3
Standards: 3, 4, 6
Every summer Talent Development Secondary (TDS), the organization I work for, calls all of its people from across the country back to Baltimore for training sessions. With our exponential growth this past year we had more that eighty people this past summer (2012). I was asked to design a presentation on data analysis and its use when developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions for schools/students.
This meant that I would have to overcome one of my greatest fears, presenting in front of my peers. To put this in perspective, I would avoid at all costs making any presentations to groups greater than five to ten people. This was a room of eighty. To overcome this fear I planned. I outlined. I created flowcharts.
In the end, our CEO sent out an email listing the high points of the week long training session. Mine, along with a fellow colleague from Detroit, were the only presentations mentioned by name. This experience was necessary because a week later I was presenting again, but this time at a Diplomas Now Conference for Communities in Schools, City Year, and our partner schools.
Standards: 3, 4, 6
Every summer Talent Development Secondary (TDS), the organization I work for, calls all of its people from across the country back to Baltimore for training sessions. With our exponential growth this past year we had more that eighty people this past summer (2012). I was asked to design a presentation on data analysis and its use when developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions for schools/students.
This meant that I would have to overcome one of my greatest fears, presenting in front of my peers. To put this in perspective, I would avoid at all costs making any presentations to groups greater than five to ten people. This was a room of eighty. To overcome this fear I planned. I outlined. I created flowcharts.
In the end, our CEO sent out an email listing the high points of the week long training session. Mine, along with a fellow colleague from Detroit, were the only presentations mentioned by name. This experience was necessary because a week later I was presenting again, but this time at a Diplomas Now Conference for Communities in Schools, City Year, and our partner schools.