Conducting Transparent Evaluations
As internships draw to an end, the intern's learning partnership participates in a process of evaluation within their ministry contexts. The purpose of evaluation is to facilitate the intern's own learning in context and is designed to empower the intern in this process of formation for ministry. The method of evaluation is primarily one of reflection and conversation among the intern and the intern's two learning partners. Each member of the learning team completes the evaluation. In congregational settings, the lay and clergy partners will separately evaluate the intern. In nonprofit settings, the site and mentoring partners will separately evaluate the intern. Prior to the last colloquy meeting, the entire learning team partnership to talk about their individual evaluations. Afterwards, interns continue to reflect upon the evaluations and note takeaways from this discussion to share and discuss in colloquy.
The steps below describe the process in detail. As you prepare for the internship and for the seminarian evaluation process, please review samples of evaluations. For the learning partners, view Learning Partners Intern Evaluation Preview and the intern, view Seminarian’s Self Evaluation Preview.
