Career Dreams Educational Foundation

EVALUATION

Workshop

Hobbs Alternative Learning Center

 Hobbs, New Mexico

(Teachers & Staff for Kids at Risk)

November 13, 1998

Evaluation of speaker:

1 = Poor to 10 = Excellent:  Average = 10.0 

10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10

Comments

• Excellent.
  
  
• Very enthusiastic.
  
  
• Very good. Self-motivated & excellent voice.
  
  
• Very high energy.
  
  
• He is very uplifting and exciting. Makes you feel comfortable and excited too.
  
  
• The speaker was very exciting and not a dull moment. He had excellent communicative skills.

Evaluation of the content and organization of the program:

1 = Poor to 10 = Excellent:   Average = 9.8

10, 8, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10

Comments

• Excellent.
  
  
• Makes you think you know you can do it.
  
  
• Excellent!
  
  
• Well organized, planned.
  
  
• The speaker knew how to keep it going and not waste any time.

How did you feel the CDI program has helped you personally?

• Made me realize that I have talents I wasn’t aware of.
  
  
• Made me feel vindicated in efforts of the school.
  
  
• I am going to take action, instead of waiting for something to happen.
  
  
• Helped me to realize that we all are working toward the same goal / objective.
  
  
• A greater awareness of unlimited boundaries.
  
  
• To realize my own talents and goals.
  
  
• Dreams can be unlimited. Negative thoughts are out.
  
  
• It has helped me realize my responsibility to work harder. To enable my students to realize their potential.
  
  
• Helped me to see my talents, power, dreams.
  
  
• It has made me more aware of my talents & clarified some of my goals.
  
  
• Unfold my self confidence.
  
  
• To have a higher self-esteem, to set goals & to have a dream for our school.

How do you feel the CDI program has impacted your team, group, and/or organization?

• Made me appreciate each other more.
  
  
• Validated the staff’s feeling of worth.
  
  
• We learned how much alike we really are.
  
  
• Brought us closer as a team / group.
  
  
• Very strongly!
  
  
• By setting no limits.
  
  
• This program really developed team work and it can be a carryover into other organizations as well.
  
  
• I feel it has drawn us closer together - We will be able to truly focus on the future realizing our common goals.
  
  
• To work for a bigger, stronger program for students, staff and community.
  
  
• It has shown that all involved are working towards the same goals. Working with passion in their jobs.
  
  
• Yes.
  
  
• To realize we all have the same vision & we can achieve this.

Do you feel that continuing the CDI programs will have an impact with your team, group, and/or organization? If yes, what do you believe the impact will be?

• Yes. Make us more effective.
  
  
• Yes, keep the momentum rolling.
  
  
• Yes, we do a good job educating our students now, but CDI will make us much better.
  
  
• Yes, will better help us understand ourselves & others & our dreams / goals.
  
  
• Yes! Impact can be limitless.
  
  
• Yes, will go further into accomplishing goals.
  
  
• The continued impact could help a team or group to feel unlimited in going forth with a plan.
  
  
• Yes / Realization that it’s OK to dare to do some things differently.
  
  
• Yes, we will have the best school in the state & nation.
  
  
• Yes. More self awareness, confidence, & empowerment will help achieve goals once thought unattainable.
  
  
• Yes. To achieve our goals for the building.
  
  
• Yes, a better school reaching out to students with all kinds of needs.

Do you feel that the CDI programs will help improve Education? If yes, what do you believe the impact to be?

• Yes, a program designed to meet the needs of young people.
  
  
• Listen and dream. Don’t limit what your horizons are.
  
  
• Yes. Make those dreams come true. Make better schools.
  
  
• Yes, allowing students to have a stake in their educational outcome.
  
  
• Yes! An awareness of new directions.
  
  
• Yes, because how we are as educators will affect the way we educate.
  
  
• Yes - By helping to involve business.
  
  
• Yes - More informed educators. More productive students.
  
  
• Yes. I believe the whole structure of education will change for the better. Our students will leave school with power unleashed and be a stronger more productive citizen.
  
  
• Yes. This program will assist students in identifying their talents & chasing their dreams.
  
  
• If society would think in positive ways instead of negatives, the children of the future would be in better shape.
  
  
• Yes, by taking our students out of the "old box".

Do you feel that the CDI programs will help teachers? If yes, how?

• Yes, by not limiting ourselves.
  
  
• Inspire them to work as a group.
  
  
• Yes. Build self-confidence, self-esteem & help open communication.
  
  
• Teachers will have better students to teach.
  
  
• Yes - New ideas, motivation, and awareness.
  
  
• Yes. It will bring out the best in them.
  
  
• Yes - To be better listeners, teachers can definitely be helped and learn how to be sensitive to the needs of the students.
  
  
• Yes - Able to use their personal talents & creativity with ease.
  
  
• Yes, to be able to see what each individual person can use to fulfill their dreams.
  
  
• By doing the same.
  
  
• Yes, they can achieve and students will succeed. Teachers spend allot of time with students and if they have a positive attitude so will their students.
  
  
• Yes, by learning anew & better, more productive ways of teaching. Make them more aware of themselves & their students as individuals with a lot of the same ideas / dreams / goals.

Do you feel that CDI programs will benefit students? If yes, how?

• Yes, letting a student understand they can reach goals & dreams are not impossible.
  
  
• Yes. Teach them not to limit their goals and dreams.
  
  
• Yes. Make them realize that their dreams are achievable. Get them to realize what their talents are & start working on their dream.
  
  
• Yes. Same as above.
  
  
• Yes, it will bring out the best in them.
  
  
• To allow students to be expressive without limiting their views.
  
  
• Yes. They will learn to be themselves.
  
  
• Yes, so they will see they have power and talents they can use to the best of their abilities.
  
  
• Same.
  
  
• Yes, they would find their hidden talents and succeed.
  
  
• Yes. By showing them that their dreams are possible.

Please make any comments about the Initial Interview?

• Very formal at first but then I began to relax.
  
  
• Made me more aware of me.
  
  
• Real eye opener.
  
  
• It was unique and interesting.
  
  
• I learned about myself and my goals for the school.
  
  
• I did not take it very serious until after the first several minutes.
  
  
• It made me really stop and think about what is truly important.
  
  
• It was very interesting how the questions came around a circle back to the beginning.
  
  
• It made me more aware of myself. It was hard to boast on myself.
  
  
• Why does it have to be over the phone?
  
  
• It made me more aware of my talents / goals & a better way to achieve them.

Please make any comments.

• A very worthwhile & worthy program.
  
  
• Well organized program.