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Reflection on the appropriateness of the SMART objective and the Budget.
According to the GIM framework, specifying objectives is an important step in the planning of a programme. Therefore, we created smart objectives to determine the effectiveness of our programme. Although we met most of our objectives, some of these objectives are not appropriate.
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All our objectives require at least 80% of the students to meet the objectives by the end of the session, however, two of the objectives could be met by 100% of the students just by completing the activity while another objective, “being able to verbally communicate with each other” is not appropriate as it is achieved by all students even without going through our programme as everyone could talk. These objectives are not appropriate as they are met by default and are not able to measure the effectiveness of our programme.
To evaluate our programme, outcome analysis is used. Which are sharing sessions when debriefing. This method is appropriate as it allows us to determine if our objectives are met, but there are instances when revisiting previous session objectives that students did not remember what they have learnt, which questions how accurate is our evaluation method is.
We specified our resources by allocating our budget for the programme, another step of planning. We predicted that to cover the expense of food and logistics we require $330, but we only spent $110 due to the decrease in expected students. Hence our required logistics was cut in half which led to us being severely under budget.
REFERENCES
Gitterman, A., & Germain, C. B. (2008). The life model of social work practice: Advances in theory and practice (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
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Shari, E. M., Carolyn, J. T., & Diane, M. H. H. (2008). The generalist model: Where do the micro and macro converge. Advances in Social Work, 9(2), 79-90.